If you wanted to check someone’s pulse from across the room, for example to remotely monitor an elderly relative, how could you do it? You might think it’s impossible, because common health-monitoring devices such as fingertip pulse oximeters and smartwatches have to be in contact with…
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Humana Reports $1.2 Billion Profit As Medicare Costs Fall Within Expectations
Humana Wednesday reported $1.2 billion in first quarter profits as the company gets better control … More
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Single Dose Baloxavir Reduces Flu Transmission in Households
Just one dose of antiviral baloxavir marboxil significantly reduced transmission of influenza within households, reported a recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine. The findings constitute the first robust evidence of an antiviral treatment…
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Nearly one-quarter of e-Scooter injuries involved substance impaired riders
Analyzing data from the 2016-2021 National Inpatient Sample, UCLA researchers found that 25% of 7350 patients hospitalized for scooter-related injuries were using substances such as alcohol, opioids, marijuana and cocaine when injured. Published in The American Surgeon, the study also…
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Key Implications for DSH Patients
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 07: United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia … More
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Why True Mental Health Support For Moms Starts With Community
Two women sitting in armchairs and talking. Woman psychologist talking to patient woman. Coach … More
Parental burnout is at an all-time high. According to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory, nearly…
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UnitedHealth Group Shakes Up Management, Taps New Optum CEO
United Health Group Tuesday elevated Dr. Patrick Conway to become the chief executive officer of … More
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Will the vegetables of the future be fortified using tiny needles?
When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50 percent of the chemicals end up in the air or soil instead of on the plants. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and Singapore has developed a much more precise way to deliver substances to plants: tiny needles made of silk.
In a study…
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Graduate student’s discovery shows that even neutral molecules take sides when it comes to biochemistry
A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of how some of biochemistry’s fundamental forces work. The study, released recently in Nature…
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