BERLIN — When Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the latest round of restrictions on public life, she named bars, restaurants, theaters, concert halls, gyms and tattoo parlors as institutions that would be forced to close. But missing from the list released on Wednesday were schools and day care centers — among […]
Month: October 2020
The past five years have been packed with medical and scientific advances, a series of public health crises that have gripped the world, and uproar over rising prescription drug costs. They’ve also been a heck of a time to launch a publication about health and medicine. As STAT celebrates its […]
West Allis, WI-based dentist James R. Coakley, DDS announces his updated 24-hour emergency dental care service to provide immediate care to patients in local neighborhoods WEST ALLIS, WI / ACCESSWIRE / October 25, 2020 / West Allis, WI-based dentist James R. Coakley, DDS announces his updated 24-hour emergency dental care […]
A sprawling convention center in El Paso will act as a makeshift hospital starting this week, as the southern Texas city grapples with spiking COVID-19 cases and a subsequent surge in hospitalizations related to the disease. © Sergio Flores/Getty Voters cast ballots at an in-person polling site in Austin, Texas, […]
A prospective study examining links between diet quality and survival of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) found no link between diet at the initiation of first-line treatment and overall survival. For the study, Erin Van Blarigan, ScD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues assessed “validated food […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the previously-booming boutique fitness industry into crisis, with studios struggling to pay rent as classes remain closed or at limited capacity. Consumers are increasingly pivoting to digital and at-home fitness as companies like Peloton and Mirror, already successful pre-pandemic, have been booming. Experts say the […]
Your medicine cabinet is home to a number of beauty, health, and wellness products—but the unhealthiest things in your medicine cabinet may surprise you. Next to your old tweezers and behind that bag of cotton balls, there may be products lurking that simply need to be thrown out for your […]
A disgruntled patient who stalked his dentist with a crossbow, bleach, and plastic sheeting has been jailed for two years after breaking a restraining order against him. Tom Baddeley, 42, was previously sentenced to prison in August for secretly following orthodontist Ian Hutchinson with a boot full of weapons capable […]
Qlarant will serve hospitals in Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Easton, Md, Oct. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a four-year contract to IPRO Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor within its Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC). Within […]
On-demand and virtual fitness has never been more popular, as the pandemic drastically changes the way Americans stay fit. While Peloton continues to dominate the at-home fitness market, several digital fitness programs — both new and existing — are looking to cash in on the on-demand exercise boom. We took […]
A practitioner of traditional healing dries medicinal plants and herbs in her courtyard. Photo by: Bioversity International / B. Sthapit / CC BY-NC-ND KATHMANDU, Nepal — In 2004, Dr. Robin Basnet was the first medical doctor to be stationed at a remote health care center in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal […]
Thomas Baddeley was jailed for 16 months for secretly following him with a boot full of weapons (Picture: Wales News Service) An obsessed patient once jailed for stalking his dentist with a ‘murder kit’ containing a crossbow, bleach and plastic sheeting is back behind bars after breaching a restraining order […]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday requested to use a medical center at Fort Bliss for non-COVID-19 patients as coronavirus cases surge in the El Paso area. The request comes as COVID-19 cases have been increasing throughout Texas and the country. Abbott said Saturday that he had spoken to Dr. […]
FILE PHOTO: Certified nursing assistant (CNA) Jermaine LeFlore prepares to take a patient’s nasal swab at a drive-thru testing site outside the Southside Health Center as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo (Reuters) – The United States broke its daily […]
The JaxJox interactive home gym. JaxJox JaxJox, which makes a smart personalized home gym that uses AI to track and improve your performance and give you a wellness score, just scored itself. The Seattle-based fit tech company announced today that it has raised $10 million to bring its JaxJox “interactive […]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In partnership with VeChain and DNV GL, Renji Hospital, a top-ranked hospital in China affiliated with the Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, has announced the launch of the world’s first blockchain-enabled Intelligent Tumor Treatment Center on October 20, 2020. The Intelligent Tumor Treatment Center […]
Science is making incredible progress toward a COVID-19 vaccine, but as approval nears – potentially as early as December – worry has shifted to the complexity of distribution. © Javier Zarracina Vaccine Pannel promo Overall, hopefulness was the theme of USA TODAY’s vaccine panel this month. After five months, the panel’s countdown clock to a widely available […]
Press release content from Accesswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. https://apnews.com/press-release/accesswire/business-virus-outbreak-medication-pharmaceutical-manufacturing-health-care-industry-16295f48c714e1c1ea49b9845fbed89c Click to copy OTTAWA, ON / ACCESSWIRE / October 23, 2020 / Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC) issued the following statement today in response to the release of PMPRB’s final Guidelines: “For the last five […]
A Mira Mesa dentist was sentenced Wednesday to six years in custody and ordered to pay more than $405,000 in restitution for fraudulently billing 10 insurance companies for hundreds of root canals she did not perform, authorities said. April Rose Ambrosio, 59, pleaded guilty earlier this year to three counts […]
Utah hospitals could be days away from using a patient’s age, health and other factors to decide who can remain in overcrowded intensive care units due to an onslaught of Covid-19 cases. © Rick Bowmer/AP Salt Lake County Health Department public health nurses look on during coronavirus testing outside the […]