A case report in the Annals of Internal Medicine highlights a severe case of avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder that doctors believe led a 17-year-old boy, who ate only a limited array of "junk food," to go blind—but one expert is questioning whether the boy's diet was the only factor at play.
There are 93,000 people in the United States waiting for a kidney transplant, and kidney disease kills about 5,000 U.S. residents on the kidney waiting list annually—yet a study published last week in JAMA Internal Medicine estimated the United States throws away at least 3,500 donated kidneys every year.
Aledade's new move in California, why you should be suspicious of "miracle meat," and more health care tweets that caught our eye this week.
The announcement marks the end of the largest measles outbreak in New York City in three decades, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from New York, Ohio, and Texas.