Blake Farmer
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The Southern Baptist Convention offered commitments at its closely watched two-day annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., to address sexual abuse problems kept hidden for years.
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For COVID patients, ECMO is a last-ditch respiratory treatment in which only about half survive. Yet a new small study suggests many lives would still have been saved if there had been more machines.
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State medical boards have an obligation to investigate complaints about doctors, such as those who spread COVIC misinformation. But in Tennessee and other states, lawmakers are saying 'not so fast'
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The pandemic pay for traveling nurses was too good to pass up for many RNs. But some are ready to settle down at home, and they're finding full-time jobs aren't keeping up with salary increases.
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A nurse who left her hospital job for much higher wages as a traveling nurse found the lifestyle hard on her family. But permanent jobs but those don't pay much better than they did pre-pandemic.
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Skyrocketing omicron case numbers in some states have hospitals nationwide trying to prepare for another big surge. Here's how things look in the Northeast, South and Midwest.
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Black patients and their families are less likely to sign up for end-of-life comfort care. To reach them, investors are starting hospice agencies run by people who look like the patients they serve.
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A reporter's experience with COVID in his young family after a gathering of relatives could help you navigate the Christmas holidays.
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Dozens of people are confirmed dead after deadly tornadoes roared across the South and Midwest. Rescue crews fear the death toll will rise as they work to get in to some of the hardest hit areas.
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Rescue and recovery efforts continue in parts of the South and Midwest after deadly storms tore through six states early yesterday morning. Mayfield, Kentucky, was especially hard hit.