Health

Encouraging patients to follow doctors' recommendations

As a laryngologist, I specialize in treating throat conditions. Often these are chronic and affect quality of life. Management, therefore, is often a combination of medical therapies with lifestyle changes.

Vaccination

Quebec to levy financial penalty on unvaccinated adults

The premier of the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec announced Tuesday that adult residents who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus will be charged a financial penalty.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

India starts booster shots for vulnerable amid omicron surge

Healthcare and front-line workers along with people above age 60 with health problems lined up Monday at vaccination centers across India to receive a third dose as infections linked to the omicron variant surge.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Romania tightens pandemic measures amid COVID-19 surge

Tighter pandemic measures came into force in Romania on Saturday as authorities hoped to quell sharply rising coronavirus cases amid concerns that the next virus wave could overstretch the country's health care system.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

As omicron spreads, Europe scrambles to shore up health care

Troops have been deployed to London hospitals. Health care workers infected with COVID-19 are treating patients in France. The Netherlands is under a lockdown, and tented field hospitals have gone up in Sicily.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Hospitals are rationing COVID pills, infusions as cases rise

(HealthDay)—It is the ultimate irony: More COVID-19 treatments exist now than at any other time during the pandemic, but the skyrocketing number of cases from the surging Omicron variant might mean you can't get them when ...

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