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‘An Arm and a Leg’: For your next health insurance fight, an exercise in financial self-defense

A listener asked: 'How do I remain cool when calling insurance companies?" So we called veteran self-defense teacher Lauren Taylor for advice. She leads Defend Yourself, an organization that works to empower people against violence and abuse.

16 Nov 2020

Red states’ case against ACA hinges on whether they were actually harmed by the lawc

Attorneys for GOP-controlled states seeking to kill the Affordable Care Act told the Supreme Court last week that at least some of the 12 million people who newly enrolled in Medicaid signed up only because of the law's requirement that people have insurance coverage — although a tax penalty no longer exists.

16 Nov 2020

Long-term care workers, grieving and under siege, brace for COVID’s next round

In the middle of the night, Stefania Silvestri lies in bed remembering her elderly patients' cries.

16 Nov 2020

Homeless shelters grapple with COVID safety as cold creeps in

Ben Barnes has slept in abandoned buildings, hallways and alleys. For the past year or so, he's been staying at the city's largest homeless shelter, Pacific Garden Mission, in the shadows of the famous skyline.

16 Nov 2020

Professional drivers regularly exposed to hazardous levels of diesel emissions, study finds

While taxi drivers wearing face masks have become a common sight in our cities, new research shows there’s a longer-standing threat to the health of professional drivers than coronavirus.

16 Nov 2020

New project aims to improve the reporting time of missing persons with dementia

QUT researchers are calling on people all over Australia to contribute ideas to a new project that aims to get more people with dementia home safely if they go missing.

16 Nov 2020

Study investigates best practices for mechanical ventilation in people with acute respiratory failure

It's a decision being made thousands of times over inside hospitals all around the country: is it time to place a patient struggling to breathe on a ventilator?

16 Nov 2020

Global health leaders discuss the urgent funding needs of ACT Accelerator

Heads of state, global health leaders, scientists, and the private sector have come together at the Paris Peace Forum this week to discuss how to meet the urgent funding needs of the ACT Accelerator.

16 Nov 2020

Study: 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers during coronavirus second wave

Amidst a coronavirus second wave, a study has found that 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers more often – with 60% of respondents only asking carers how they are ‘now and again’, ‘rarely’ or ‘almost never’; leaving carers at risk of feeling forgotten.

16 Nov 2020

“Zoom Dysmorphia” is driving more people to seek plastic surgery

Patients are seeking plastic surgery in record numbers, citing their appearance on Zoom as a cause. Of particular concern are noses and wrinkles, according to Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine. Click here to read the article now.

16 Nov 2020

Researchers address the root cause of wrong-patient order errors

Each year, health care practitioners at Brigham and Women's Hospital place over a million orders through the electronic health records (EHR) system.

16 Nov 2020

New Timestrip indicators to support the use of promising coronavirus vaccines

Timestrip®, the developer of smart indicator technology, has moved fast to develop a range of products that support use of the coronavirus vaccines now promising to become available.

16 Nov 2020

Study explains why conservatives and liberals differ on COVID-19 threat

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, political ideology has been perhaps the strongest predictor of consumers' perceptions of the coronavirus' threat.

16 Nov 2020

New digital service will help hospitals build capacity in outpatient services

NHS partnership Health Call is rolling out a new digital outpatients service to connect clinicians with patients at home and minimize the need to attend hospital appointments in person during the pandemic.

16 Nov 2020

Prescription of antibiotics rises in England during COVID-19 lockdown

FDI World Dental Federation (FDI) releases new White Paper on antibiotic resistance to mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.

16 Nov 2020

Community-wide resuscitation program demonstrates 100% success rate in cannulation

Published today in the EClinicalMedicine Journal, a study from the University of Minnesota found that the first four months of the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium (MMRC) was 100% effective in cannulation for out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests.

15 Nov 2020

Study looks at SARS-CoV-2 RNA contamination in COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital

To try and shed more light on SARS-CoV-2’s transmission, a research group based in Italy examined a COVID-19 isolation ward in a Milan hospital to evaluate the level of contamination present in the air and on surfaces with SARS-CoV-2 RNA (the virus’s genetic material).

15 Nov 2020

Multi-faceted COVID-19 strategy can prevent infections, save lives in resource-challenged countries

A public health strategy that combines contact tracing and community-based screening with isolation and quarantine centers can substantially reduce infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 while being cost-effective in low-and-middle-income countries like South Africa, a study by Massachusetts General Hospital has found.

15 Nov 2020

WHO approves first ever vaccine for emergency use to address polio

WHO today listed the nOPV2 vaccine (Bio Farma, Indonesia) for emergency use to address the rising cases of a vaccine-derived polio strain in a number of African and East Mediterranean countries.

15 Nov 2020

Ovarian cancer project shows promise

Porvair Sciences reports, due to promising results, it has agreed with its collaborative partners to make additional investment in the CEAT project** which aims to dramatically improve the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer.

From Chromatrap® - Porvair Sciences Ltd 13 Nov 2020

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‘An Arm and a Leg’: For your next health insurance fight, an exercise in financial self-defense

Red states’ case against ACA hinges on whether they were actually harmed by the lawc

Long-term care workers, grieving and under siege, brace for COVID’s next round

Homeless shelters grapple with COVID safety as cold creeps in

Professional drivers regularly exposed to hazardous levels of diesel emissions, study finds

New project aims to improve the reporting time of missing persons with dementia

Study investigates best practices for mechanical ventilation in people with acute respiratory failure

Global health leaders discuss the urgent funding needs of ACT Accelerator

Study: 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers during coronavirus second wave

“Zoom Dysmorphia” is driving more people to seek plastic surgery

Researchers address the root cause of wrong-patient order errors

New Timestrip indicators to support the use of promising coronavirus vaccines

Study explains why conservatives and liberals differ on COVID-19 threat

New digital service will help hospitals build capacity in outpatient services

Prescription of antibiotics rises in England during COVID-19 lockdown

Community-wide resuscitation program demonstrates 100% success rate in cannulation

Study looks at SARS-CoV-2 RNA contamination in COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital

Multi-faceted COVID-19 strategy can prevent infections, save lives in resource-challenged countries

WHO approves first ever vaccine for emergency use to address polio

Ovarian cancer project shows promise

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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