The modern ICU, or Intensive Care Unit, was born out of a time of crisis. It was 1952, and polio was raging in many places — especially the city of Copenhagen. Patients poured into the hospitals, many ...

Some critical care physicians say they’re concerned that long intensive care unit stays will not only have physical and mental health consequences for COVID-19 patients, but also their family members, ...

This week, for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, Tufts Medical Center had no COVID patients in any intensive care units. It lasted just one day, but the hospital said that hasn't ...

For more than three years, Dr. Christopher Ohl has been treating Covid patients in the intensive care unit at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in North Carolina. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Variant proportions: Original omicron makes up 66% of the U.S. cases with the second omicron subvariant up to 23% and the so-called stealth omicron the rest. • Four days in a row with no COVID ...

Findings from the North American COVID-19 Myocardial Infarction (NACMI) registry demonstrate significantly higher one-year ...

Life support is reserved for patients suffering from severe respiratory failure resulting from the lungs being affected by the virus The coronavirus pandemic has caused many thousands of people, ...

In many ways, we have come a long way since March when the pandemic first began, but in other ways, we have not. Infections and hospitalizations around the country from COVID-19 are rising quickly, as ...

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Stone is a retired infectious disease physician, medical journalist, and author. Feinberg is professor of medicine/infectious disease and professor of behavioral medicine and psychiatry at the West ...