Types of Congenital Heart Defects

If you experience sudden, unexplained pain in any part of your body, don't hesitate to seek medical attention. "People have to make a judgment call for themselves, whether they're going to go to an emergency room or make an appointment with their doctor," says Robert Hockberger, MD, chair of emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles . "We ask patients to rate their pain from a one to a 10. People who feel that their pain is a seven or higher – anything worse than a bad toothache – should see a doctor right away." Read on—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had COVID . iStock Sudden, sharp pain in your upper back could be a sign of painful kidney stones. "People with kidney disease sometimes have 'pain' caused by their kidney disease," says Alan Charney, MD, a nephrologist at NYU Langone Health and clinical professo...

Amazon, the company known for delivering countless boxes to your door as well as for spying and collecting data on you, is acquiring One Medical, a primary care provider, for roughly $3.9 billion the companies said Thursday. The acquisition signals Amazon's continued foray into the healthcare market having bought PillPack in 2018 for $750 million, using the acquisition to launch its own online pharmacy years later. Amazon has also ramped up effort in its telehealth service Amazon Care, along with plans to develop at-home medical diagnostics. If the deal goes through, Amazon would be in possession of the medical data of over 700,000 One Medical customers. However, the purchase of One Medical by Amazon has raised concerns regarding the company's track record with sensitive customer data, especially with the recent news that the company has been giving cops footage from its Ring cameras without customers' knowledge or consent. "Pushing forward into healthcare raises some ...

St. Louis Magazine has released its 2022 Top Doctors issue, revealing the area's top physicians. The list includes 98 physicians from Saint Louis University School of Medicine across more than 40 different specialties.  Nisha Mangalat, M.D., is an associate professor in pediatrics at SLU and a SLUCare pediatric gastroenterologist at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.  SLU School of Medicine physicians are a part of SLUCare Physician Group, a member of SSM Health. In addition to the physicians who made the Top Doctors List, the magazine also highlighted other work coming out of Saint Louis University School of Medicine. At SLU's Center for Va...

When Abi McMahon was 2 years old, Mom and Dad spotted some pretty unusual bruising. "It was weird because she was 2 and fell all the time and she was clumsy just as all 2-year-olds usually are," Abi's mom Holly McMahon said. The bruising seemed rather atypical for the typical 2-year-old. "At first, I thought, 'I'm sure she fell at day care or something and I just didn't realize it' but they kind of then just kept showing up and it was like, again, maybe this is not normal," she added. "You hear stories of bruises on kiddos and wonder what that might mean so that was a little scary." That's when they called Abi's Sanford Health pediatrician, Jennifer Haggar, M.D., at the Sanford Children's 26th & Sycamore Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. More: Find pediatric care close to home "I saw some pictures and when I looked at it, I thought the same: I'm worried that this isn't normal and that som...

Snopes is still fighting an "infodemic" of rumors and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and you can help. Find out what we've learned and how to inoculate yourself against COVID-19 misinformation. Read the latest fact checks about the vaccines. Submit any questionable rumors and "advice" you encounter. Become a Founding Member to help us hire more fact-checkers. And, please, follow the CDC or WHO for guidance on protecting your community from the disease. A letter authored by a controversial physician and alternative medicine practitioner named Frank Shallenberger began making the rounds on social media in December 2020. The initial version of this Snopes article did not confirm Shallenberger's authorship of the letter, which has been shared as...

South Carolina's Fetal Heartbeat Law, which went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, has brought on a long list of unanswered questions about scenarios and legal circumstances surrounding women's healthcare, state OB-GYNs say. "The question that comes in is how sick is sick enough and how do we determine that?" said Dr. Dawn Bingham, an OB-GYN in Columbia and vice-chair of South Carolina's section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "Even to us that are trained for this, it is not a black and white issue." The fetal heartbeat law went into effect June 27 after the U.S. District Court of South Carolina stayed the injunction that had previously stopped the implementation of the law. The law prohibits abortions when a "fetal heartbeat" is detected, typically around 6-weeks into pregnancy, except when the life of the mother is threatened. The law...

En español   The Social Security Administration (SSA) offers customer service online, by phone and at field offices across the country, which fully reopened April 7 after being largely closed for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. You can conduct most routine business, including applying for benefits and filing appeals, at the Social Security website or by calling the SSA's national customer service line (800-772-1213). Getting help online: My ...

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Prof T J Joseph's memoir 'Attupokatha Ormakal' (titled 'A Thousand Cuts' in English) has won the Kerala Sahithya Akademi award in the autobiography category. The book is the former Malayalam professor's account of how a question he had framed for an internal semester exam for B.Com students in 2010 had so outraged Muslim fringe elements that they lay in wait, and when the opportunity presented, pulled him out of his car and chopped off his right hand in front of his mother and sister. ...