Two years ago, the Veterans Affairs healthcare system (VA) began rolling out a new benefit, enabling Veterans to receive urgent care from a network of community providers—rather than visiting a VA emergency department or ...
May 14, 2021
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There are no therapeutics available that have been developed for COVID-19 treatment.Repurposing of already available medication for COVID-19 therapy is an attractive option to shorten the road to treatment development. The ...
Mar 4, 2021
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Spending on low-value health care among fee-for-service Medicare recipients dropped only marginally from 2014 to 2018, despite both a national campaign to better educate clinicians and increasing use of payment revisions ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Acknowledging that COVID-19 may be here to stay, Oregon Health & Science University has laid out a series of steps to prepare patients for elective surgery following their illness.
Jan 12, 2021
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More than 15 million Americans have been infected by the COVID-19 virus, and many may be questioning whether they need to receive one of the two coronavirus vaccines now on the verge of approval from U.S. regulators.
Dec 11, 2020
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We are all familiar now with the use of circuit breakers, lockdowns and other interventions, such as masks and social distancing: these have been policy decisions to restrict the spread of COVID-19 in many places. In the ...
Dec 7, 2020
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Anyone who has undergone a nasal swab or saliva test for COVID-19 knows that the virus is most easily detected in the nose and mouth. That's why, University at Buffalo researchers argue in a new paper, more COVID-19 studies ...
Nov 30, 2020
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Although SARS-CoV-2 genetic material may still be detected in respiratory or stool samples for several weeks, no live virus (that can cause infection) was found in any type of sample collected beyond nine days of symptoms ...
Nov 20, 2020
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Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) are conducting a clinical trial to determine whether nasal saline irrigations can reduce viral shedding and symptoms in patients with COVID-19.
Sep 3, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Once you've had COVID-19 and recovered, are you now immune from the virus?
Apr 14, 2020
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