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A woman with long hair and glasses wears blue scrubs holding three infants in her arms while talking on a phone in a damaged hospital

In Beirut, hospital staff witness ‘total chaos’ after blast

Health & Medicine

“It was like the doors of hell had opened.” That’s how one doctor described the scene at his hospital in Beirut after a massive blast last Tuesday killed more than 150 people and injured thousands of others.

Dr. Georgina Keogh, a doctor at St George’s Hospital in London, stands beside a portrait of her painted by artist Jane Clatworthy as part of an NHS portrait series project.

‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ honors UK’s frontline health workers

Coronavirus Art
El Palace Hotel in the sunlight in Barcelona

Under lockdown in Spain, hotels transform into field hospitals

COVID-19
A woman stands next to rows of tidy plants on a rooftop farm

A Boston hospital promotes patient health with its own rooftop farm

Health & Medicine

Clown Care Unit

Arts, Culture & Media
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Medical Improv Train-the-Trainer Workshop

Take two laughs and call me in the morning

Arts

Doctors and nurses use gallows humor to get through the day. But when is laughter in medicine OK, and when does it cross the line?

The World

Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads

Health

In the new Science Friday video “Breakthrough: Connecting the Drops,” Lydia Bourouiba and her team study how droplets travel when we sneeze, or flush the toilet.

Susan Sorrenti, an ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, nearly died from SARS back in 2003. She says she feels empathy for the nurses in Texas who contracted Ebola from treating a sick patient.

The US Ebola cases remind Toronto healthcare workers of their SARS outbreak in 2003

Health

In 2003, when SARS broke out in Toronto, many doctors and nurses got sick and died from the disease. “I think we lost control of it in Canada,” says one Canadian nurse. “We should learn from that moment and be prepared.”

Russia maternity

Russia’s looking to improve the quality of its maternity care — but it has a long way to go

Health & Medicine

In Russia, pregnant women are often confined to stark maternity hospitals with little privacy, and where medical practices may be outdated. But the government has plans to make maternity care more modern.In Russia, pregnant women are often confined to stark maternity hospitals with little privacy, and where medical practices may be outdated. But the government has plans to make maternity care more modern.

Syrian activists operate secret hospitals to treat wounded dissidents

After a violent crackdown against Arab Spring protesters in Syria, the government is using its hospitals to find and isolate dissidents. To get the treatment they need, they’re having to go to independent, underground, make-shift hospitals.

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