Archive: 04/01/2022

Japan leader promises boosters, new measures against omicron

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed Tuesday to speed up coronavirus vaccine booster shots, secure imported supplies of drugs to treat COVID-19 and reorganize medical facilities to respond to the fast-spreading omicron ...

Jan 4, 2022

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Study shows troubling lack of knowledge by physicians about the Americans with Disabilities Act

More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), most physicians still lack basic knowledge about "reasonable accommodations" the law requires them to provide to people with disabilities, ...

Jan 4, 2022

Risk adjusted performance measures may not be an accurate measure of health plan performance

There may be substantial residual confounding in risk-adjustment models used to evaluate health plan performance due to differences in patient characteristics between plans. This means that they may not be able to accurately ...

Jan 4, 2022

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Researchers reveal scale of prevalence of a condition that can cause type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure

Scientists at the University of Birmingham are calling for changes to healthcare policy following research which has shown for the first time the scale of the impact of a condition associated with benign tumors that can lead ...

Jan 4, 2022

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Major financial hardship common after cancer diagnosis, despite Insurance

Despite having access to health insurance, nearly three out of four patients with metastatic colorectal cancer experienced major financial hardship during the first year after their diagnosis. These are the findings of a ...

Jan 4, 2022

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