Health systems, clinics and private practices pivoted swiftly to telemedicine when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but video services were not prepared for a titanic influx of users.
Jul 26, 2021
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Smoke from wildfires burning through bone dry forests and grasslands in the West covered the city of Helena, Montana on Sunday./Matt Volz/Kaiser Health News)
As more heatstroke patients arrived at hospitals in Washington, doctors used human body bags filled with ice and water to quickly immerse and cool several elderly people.
Booster shots are likely to be here before long because of the outdated, 60-year-old basic standard the Food and Drug Administration uses to authorize medicines for sale.
Jul 21, 2021
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Damon Diessner lost 200 pounds on a diabetes prevention program in Redmond, Washington./Laurie McKenzie
Only 3,600 of an estimated 16 million Medicare beneficiaries eligible for a two-year diabetes prevention program have actually signed up since Medicare started covering the program in 2018.
Jul 21, 2021
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Miché Aaron struggled in the doctoral program until she was diagnosed with ADHD but is now thriving academically./Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University
Already subject to unique discrimination at the intersection of gender and race, Black women with ADHD often remain undiagnosed because their symptoms are mischaracterized.
Cognitive decline varies widely among people who have started experiencing memory and thinking problems or who are in the earliest stage of Alzheimer’s — the patients who received Aduhelm.