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I got addicted to painkillers after a difficult childbirth. Years later, I'm finally sober.
A mom of three got addicted to painkillers and spent $1,400 a week on pills. She finally got sober …
Jane Ridley
10 mins read
The allure of fasting diets for successful people — and where it falls short
Intermittent fasting is popular among successful people for weight loss and longevity but experts s…
Hilary Brueck,Gabby Landsverk
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The oxygen supply in the Titanic sub is dwindling. Here's how to control and conserve your breath in emergencies, per an ER nurse.
As resources run out on the Titanic sub that went missing Sunday, controlled breathing could help p…
Gabby Landsverk
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When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I kept the news from my kids. I told them on my own time 5 years later.
My husband and I kept my breast cancer diagnosis from our two small kids for five years. When my do…
Anna Sullivan
2 mins read
A woman says Ozempic and Mounjaro paralyzed her stomach so bad she had to visit the ER vomiting. Her lawyers say the damage might be permanent.
Ozempic and Mounjaro helped a woman lose 150 lbs, but she says the drugs paralyzed her stomach. She…
Hilary Brueck
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I thought my bloody stool during pregnancy was hemorrhoids. It was stage 3 colorectal cancer.
Kelly Spill had bloody stool during pregnancy and figured it was due to hemorrhoids. She was diagno…
Kelly Burch
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See how an ER doctor uses ChatGPT in the hospital to communicate better and even calm down anxious patients
Dr. Josh Tamayo-Sarver uses ChatGPT to help with creative communication while treating his patients…
Hilary Brueck
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The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25 to 22 in Super Bowl LVIII
The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Sun…
Lydia Warren,Lloyd Lee
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A 27-year-old woman was told by an ER doctor she was having a panic attack. She later found out it was a stroke.
Strokes are a leading cause of death and disability in the US, but they are disproportionately misd…
Allana Akhtar
1 min read
Lost bananas, stuck vibrators, and erections lasting for hours a doctor reveals sex accidents seen at the ER
Dr. Kanwal Bawa was an attending physician in the emergency room for nine years.Crystal Swass/Getty
Jane Ridley
3 mins read
I was the artsy kid who hated sports growing up. But as an adult, I'm now athletic and finding happiness in cycling and hiking.
I was not athletic growing up: I was queer, artsy, and hated sports. But physical activities like c…
Mike De Socio
3 mins read
College students drinking 'borgs' are ending up in the ER. As a doctor and a mom, I worry about the consequences.
The author shares how the popular gallon-jugs of alcohol and water that college kids are drinking c…
Ellen Kornmehl
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A doctor told a 35-year-old who felt like she was suffocating that she was young and healthy. She was having heart failure.
Marian Dancy was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare form of heart failure, at age 35.…
Kim Schewitz
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ChatGPT can save lives in the ER, but it needs supervision: 'It is at once both smarter and dumber than any person you've ever met'
GPT-3's more sophisticated big brother, GPT-4, is here. And according to the authors of a new book,…
Hilary Brueck
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A woman went to the ER with 'severe' abdominal pain and discovered herbal tea had damaged her liver
The woman recovered after she stopped drinking the tea that contained ingredients including aloe ve…
Catherine Schuster-Bruce
2 mins read
An ER doctor says kids are coming into the hospital with terrifying hallucinations — and warns it's a classic flu symptom
Pediatrician Kathryn MacKinlay said when her sick, feverish daughter started yelling and hearing vo…
Hilary Brueck
4 mins read
A 38-year-old man says 2 doses of Mounjaro permanently paralyzed his stomach. He's suing Eli Lilly.
Blake has sued Eli Lilly. He says he used Mounjaro to control his blood sugar, and now has life-lon…
Hilary Brueck
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My daughter's ear and lip fell off as a baby. I adore her face because it's uniquely hers, and I'm teaching her to do the same.
Vascular birthmarks caused ulcers that made her daughter's ear and lip fall off. She's teaching the…
Kelly Burch
2 mins read
An ER doctor says he's treating infants at risk for life-threatening seizures after they consumed diluted baby formula and urges parents not to take a risk with homemade versions
Dr. Owais Durrani says his Texas hospital has seen infants with dangerously low sodium levels due t…
Anna Medaris
3 mins read
An ER doctor reveals the 1 heart condition that he never wants to see in his hospital because it is 'so scary' — and how to prevent it
If your aorta rips, Dr. Jeremy Faust say there's often a "profound sense of helplessness," and ER t…