Doris Spatz takes a once-a-day pill, Kisqali, to keep her metastatic breast cancer in check. As a patient in the Defense Department health system, she…
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Contactless screening tool could revolutionize chronic wound treatment
A thermal-imaging tool to screen for chronic wounds could enable nurses to identify these hard-to-heal sores during the first assessment at a person’s home. Nearly…
Follow-up care with medication, testing after heart attack can prevent 94% of patients from having second cardiac event
A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that following up a cardiac event, such as a heart attack, with…
Study: Only half of food allergic adult patients have immediate access to epinephrine
Epinephrine is the only medication that can stop anaphylaxis and it is critical that everyone with a food allergy has access to epinephrine to treat…
Harassment buffer zones will protect women attending abortion clinics
Harassment ‘buffer zones’ will protect women attending abortion clinics: Protesters face being jailed for up to six months if they breach new rules It will…
Social Butterfly, Elle, Wants to Be Your New BFF!
Mature, social and playful—Elle truly has it all. This adorable girl is looking for her new full-time bestie and a place to call her own…
Detecting the undetected: Measuring levels of three proteins in the blood can aid detection of undiagnosed prediabetes
Scientists have used a proteomics approach to identify a three-protein signature in the blood that can improve detection of isolated impaired glucose tolerance, a form…
Revealed: Astonishing 500 health fat cats are on £100,000-plus
Revealed: Astonishing 500 health fat cats are on £100,000-plus – including dozens who earn more than the Prime Minister… so WHO are they? More than…
Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began almost three years ago, scientists have learned that an initial infection can lead to short- and long-term health risks affecting…
Stopping the Churn: Why Some States Want to Guarantee Medicaid Coverage From Birth to Age 6
Before the covid-19 public health emergency began in 2020, millions of children churned on and off Medicaid each year — an indication that many were…