The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening ...
Feb 25, 2023
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first combination test for flu and C OVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease.
Feb 25, 2023
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What will happen to free testing, vaccination and treatment for COVID-19 under the Biden administration's plan to end the coronavirus public health emergency in May?
Feb 2, 2023
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The Biden administration intends for the COVID-19 public health emergency to end in May, while some lawmakers in Congress wish to end it immediately. The World Health Organization has declared we're on the verge of a turn ...
Feb 1, 2023
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To fight an urgent opioid overdose crisis, a Canadian province took an unusual step on Tuesday.
Jan 31, 2023
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In the legislative sessions spanning January 1, 2021, through May 20, 2022, U.S. state legislators introduced 1,531 bills to change the scope and allocation of emergency health authority, according to new data released today ...
Jan 24, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the world's global health security networks, says a new four-paper series published in The Lancet. The series authors argue that we must implement a "One Health" approach globally, ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Telehealth services for common mental health problems surged 16 to 20 fold during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than making up for a drop in in-person care that occurred during the period for a number of conditions, ...
Jan 6, 2023
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A survey of 1,183 physicians in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Maranhão shows that the various uses of telemedicine, which turned out to be a significant alternative during the public health crisis caused by COVID-19, ...
Dec 14, 2022
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The World Health Organization said Wednesday it hopes that COVID-19 and Mpox will no longer be public health emergencies in 2023 as both diseases end their most dangerous phase.
Dec 14, 2022
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