Many Americans frustrated in search for low-cost COVID boosters
Americans seeking out the new COVID boosters are finding themselves held back by insurance entanglements and supply delays.
Sep 22, 2023
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Americans seeking out the new COVID boosters are finding themselves held back by insurance entanglements and supply delays.
Sep 22, 2023
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People who come to emergency departments with alcohol-related diseases or conditions are more likely to make return visits and to die in the following 20 years than people who come to emergency departments for other reasons, ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Inhaled nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, should be used more widely to manage children's pain and distress when they undergo emergency treatment in hospitals, says a University of Alberta expert.
Sep 18, 2023
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If doctors in hospital emergency departments are trained to carry out ultrasound on patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT), they can nearly halve the time the patients spend in these departments.
Sep 17, 2023
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Half of patients discharged from the emergency department need only five tablets or fewer of morphine 5mg or an equivalent opioid pain killer, according to new research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress.
Sep 16, 2023
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The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT performed as well as a trained doctor in suggesting likely diagnoses for patients being assessed in emergency medicine departments, in a pilot study presented at the European Emergency ...
Sep 13, 2023
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Annual rates of emergency department visits for cannabis-involved traffic injury increased by 475% over 11 years, according to a new study from The Ottawa Hospital, Bruyère Research Institute, and ICES.
Sep 6, 2023
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In recent years, the opioid epidemic has been worsened by the advent of street fentanyl, an illicit version of a powerful prescription painkiller.
Sep 5, 2023
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A new study showing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies used to manage the virus on emergency department (ED) visits in British Columbia can help with future planning. The study is published in the ...
Sep 5, 2023
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Several major childhood allergies may all stem from the community of bacteria living in our gut, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital.
Aug 29, 2023
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