'Grease' star Olivia Newton-John is mourning the loss of her cancer nurse Emma Cohen, and paid tribute to the "energetic and powerful woman".
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities scrambled Saturday to get oxygen tanks to hospitals where COVID-19 patients were suffocating amid the world’s worst coronavirus surge, as the government came under increasing criticism for what doctors said was its negligence in the face of a foreseeable public health disaster.
Virus updates: Manufacturers, hospitals say they have adequate supply of N95 masks; US seeing drop in vaccine demand; Indian hospitals plead for oxygen.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state.
WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — On line in the hospital atrium, Kari Wegg folds her hands in her lap while husband Rodney pilots the wheelchair, moving forward together a few feet at a time, their progress halting but methodical.
WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 hospitalizations among older Americans have plunged more than 70% since the start of the year, and deaths among them appear to have tumbled as well, dramatic evidence the vaccination campaign is working.
Virginia mental hospitals are struggling with “dangerously high” numbers of patients, prompting them to delay admissions and straining the ability of law enforcement officers to maintain custody of people in psychiatric crisis who are waiting for treatment.
Sovah Health-Danville registered nurse Jordan Powell was recently honored with The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses.
A company has created an alcohol assessment tool based on work out of Virginia Tech's Roanoke research institute that could help physicians determine patients' risk for misuse without ever asking them how much they drink.
A company has created an alcohol assessment tool based on work out of Virginia Tech's Roanoke research institute that could help physicians determine patients' risk for misuse without ever asking them how much they drink.
A Colorado mass vaccination site paused operations this week after 11 people experienced adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine.
The $12 million project will add 50% to space.
The death toll is 198 for the Pittsylvania-Danville Health District.
“We’ve just seen so much illness and death,” she said. “I’m shocked every day by how sick people are. Not just old people. One week a few months ago, all my patients were under 40. It’s just really shocking how unpredictable this virus is. It hits people differently. Some people don’t have any symptoms, while some people are massively ill.”
The move is effective immediately in Danville and Martinsville.
The Assembly's Judiciary Committee will also have power to subpoena documents and witness testimony. It could rely on work done by the attorney general's team of investigators, or gather its own evidence.
There are increasing numbers of clinical tools that can help assess whether you have a true penicillin allergy.
A study published in JAMA Cardiology in July found that 78 patients out of 100 who had contracted COVID-19 experienced cardiac irregularities, despite not having any preexisting heart conditions.
The unit will travel around the region to provide COVID-19 vaccines to people who have difficulty getting access.
Eight new deaths were added Wednesday in Danville and Pittsylvania County.
Regardless of whether you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, you should come in for your scheduled mammogram.
There are 46 individuals — 30 residents and 16 employees — who have tested positive at Bright Leaf Place in Danville.
Cases are declining. Overall hospitalizations have stabilized. Yet 20 intensive care units in Virginia recently had no available beds. Thirteen hit at least 90% capacity.
COVID-19 cases at Mary Washington Hospital and Stafford Hospital have dropped from 99 patients per day last month to 59 patients as of Thursday.
Local researchers are studying the antibody therapy to help prevent or temper the virus in caregivers of COVID patients.
