Health

While some previous cyberattacks have targeted a single hospital or smaller medical networks, the collapse of Change, which manages a third of all U.S. medical records, underlined the dangers of consolidation when one entity becomes so essential to the system national healthcare. Ascension systems remain down indefinitely, but doctors and nurses are working to find ways to access some information about patients' medical history by examining medical records kept by other providers. Ascension is also telling doctors and nurses that they will soon be able to see existing digital records. “It's a huge inconvenience for everyone involved,” said Kristine Kittelson,…

Revital is also the centerpiece of a broader effort launched by Kenya's president, William Ruto, to produce health kits for epidemics. In a malaria epidemic, for example, other companies might produce rapid diagnostic tests, mosquito nets, malaria drugs, and vaccines; Revital would assemble the kits and ship them to areas affected by the epidemic. The company was founded in 2008 with just 60 employees and remains family-owned. Mr. Vora is a third generation Kenyan of Indian origin. His uncle is the president of the company. His cousins ​​take care of finance and operations. And Krupali Shah, who leads research and…

The last one Colorectal cancer rates are rising rapidly among adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s, and the most common warning sign for the disease is blood in the stool, according to a new scientific review. Rectal bleeding is associated with a five-fold increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to the new analysis, which looked at 81 studies that included nearly 25 million adults under 50 from around the world. Abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits and anemia are other common warning signs of the disease and should not be ignored, said the researchers, who published the paper Thursday…

As they travel, farm animals can also leave pathogens behind. In one study, scientists found that disease-causing bacteria, including some resistant to antibiotics, were spilling out of moving poultry trucks and into the cars behind them. The trucks “were just spreading these antibiotic-resistant bacteria,” said Ana Rule, a bioaerosol expert at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health and an author of the study. Contaminated transport vehicles are known to spread pathogens long after infected animals have disembarked and could play a role in the dairy cow outbreak, officials said. Infected animals can then spark outbreaks at their destinations,…