Dorene Rentz, a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School, has studied Alzheimer's disease for over 30 years, and now, her husband has joined one of her biggest studies as a participant, Sumathi Reddy reports for the Wall Street Journal.
CDC on Thursday reported the number of lung illness cases linked with e-cigarettes jumped to 1,080, as new research emerged that showed some patients sickened with the illness have shown airway and lung damage resembling a chemical burn.
A federal judge this week ruled that a Philadelphia nonprofit can open a medically supervised injection site under U.S. law, an unprecedented ruling that could open the door for other cities to pursue so-called "safe-injection" sites to combat the opioid epidemic.
Joel Smithers, a family practice doctor who operated in Martinsville, Virginia, on Wednesday received a 40-year prison sentence after he was convicted of 861 federal drug charges, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Maryland, New Hampshire, and Virginia.