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Hospitals across the U.S. are taking steps to conserve their supplies of IV fluids after Hurricane Helene struck a critical manufacturing plant belonging to the country’s biggest supplier. IV fluids are used to deliver drugs or water with electrolytes directly into a patient’s bloodstream. Follow live updates on the aftermath of Hurricane HeleneThere are four primary manufacturers of IV fluids in the U.S. Baxter is the leader, accounting for about 60% of the market. The company is the main supplier for Mass General Brigham in Boston, which uses more than 100,000 liters of IV fluid from Baxter every month. “Patients are still getting IV fluids when they need them,” Biddinger said.

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It’s a scary day for moms, right?” French Gates said. Tragically, those solutions aren’t reaching families in the communities where mothers and kids need them most,” said Bill Gates and French Gates in the report’s introduction. Gates and French Gates also noted the increasing rates of maternal deaths in the U.S. and United Kingdom and the racial disparities in those deaths. French Gates spoke with outrage about the harrowing experience tennis star Serena Williams described after giving birth to her first daughter and suffering multiple complications, which endangered her life. It was almost like a slap in the face,” said French Gates.

Persons: — Melinda French Gates, Gates, Melinda Gates, Jennifer, Leila — Jennifer's, —, “, Rasa Izadnegahdar, ”, “ It’s, Bill Gates, French Gates, Mark Suzman, recommit, Suzman, Tom Kenyon, they’re, Izadnegahdar, there’s, ’ ”, Black, Serena Williams, Tori Bowie, aren’t, we’ve Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation, Associated Press, Sustainable, United Nations, Child Health, World Health Organization, General Assembly, Gates Foundation, American Medical Association, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: U.S, French, Ukraine, Saharan Africa, South Asia, United Kingdom

☆ Inside Dugway Proving Ground, where scientists work with the world's deadliest chemical and biological weapons in a top-secret military zone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( James Pasley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Dugway Proving Ground is a sprawling army base in remote Utah. Despite those incidents, the army base mostly has a good safety record, according to the Pentagon. While the remote army base used to be responsible for creating chemical weapons — and, at one point, testing them on US soldiers — it now only analyzes them. A later report found that Dugway had failed to follow standard procedures — and use enough radiation — to kill the anthrax samples. The US is destroying its arsenal of chemical weapons, such as VX gas, to meet a treaty obligation that its entire stockpile is eliminated by September 30.

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☆ Psychedelic therapies are on the horizon. Who will administer them?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Danica Jefferies | Danica Jefferies Is An Intern With The Data Graphics Team For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Psychedelic therapy is nowhere near as simple as filling a prescription and taking a pill at home. A clinical psychologist, she founded and now leads the first accredited psychedelic therapy training program in the U.S. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The psychedelic therapy program entails 150 hours of instruction and several in-person training sessions. So why the growing interest in using psychedelic drugs for mental health? Treatment with psychedelic drugs is not as simple as giving the patient a pill to take at home, and it’s not for everybody.

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