COVID and Medicare payments spark remote patient BP monitoring boom
Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure.
Mar 28, 2024
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Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure.
Mar 28, 2024
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With Oprah's recent primetime special about weight loss, you could say that obesity drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have reached the pinnacle of pop culture. But an important story about public health is developing ...
Mar 27, 2024
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A single subcutaneous injection of the investigational drug zilebesiran, when added to existing treatment with a standard antihypertensive medication, reduced systolic blood pressure by between 4 to 12 mmHg on average at ...
Apr 8, 2024
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People with high blood pressure saw their systolic blood pressure drop by 7 mmHg, on average, and experienced improvements in other markers of blood vessel health after receiving daily smartphone messages designed to cultivate ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Researchers want to improve the recording of pregnancy risk factors in GP medical records for their women patients after a Monash University-led audit found a concerning number were at risk.
Mar 25, 2024
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In the early days of the pandemic, Medicare announced it would start paying doctors and other health care providers for the time it took to handle their patients' digital messages—or at least, the ones that required at ...
Apr 8, 2024
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A range of economic, nutritional, religious and ideological factors influence our diets. The key, however, lies in finding a balance that cares for both our health and that of the planet.
Apr 24, 2024
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It's an idea as old as modern medicine and as new as the latest medical research. No matter how you look at health equity, the conversation involves contradictions.
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