James Martin health: TV chef recalls the moment he witnessed someone die
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Caregivers Could Use HIV Self-Testing for Hard-to-Reach Kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Caregivers living with HIV could use at-home testing to monitor the children in their households, according to researchers in Zimbabwe. HIV self-testing has been effective in low-resource countries, and it could help in locations where…
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Pandemic Slices Medicare Physician Spending in First Half of 2020: AMA
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, physician spending in the fee-for-service Medicare program was $9.4 billion less than expected — a drop of 19% — in the…
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How to get the COVID-19 vaccine at Kroger
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine at Kroger As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the United States, health officials are urging everyone who is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine to get one as soon as possible. All the more so because…
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Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 still wait for advice
More than 27 million Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will have to keep waiting for guidance from federal health officials for what they should and shouldn’t do. The Biden administration said Friday it’s focused on getting the guidance right…
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WHO to Scrap Interim Report on Probe of COVID-19 Origins: WSJ
(Reuters) – A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one…
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Automatic adverse drug reaction extraction from electronic health records
Patients’ electronic health records convey crucial information. The application of natural language processing techniques to these records may be an effective means of extracting information that may improve clinical decision making, clinical documentation and billing, disease prediction and the detection…
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Controlling adhesions in the abdomen
Scars inside the abdomen, known as adhesions, form after inflammation or surgery. They can cause chronic pain and digestive problems, lead to infertility in women, or even have potentially life-threatening consequences such as intestinal obstruction. If adhesions develop, they must…
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Study reveals dietary factors associated with mental health
Although there is a well-established relationship between diet and physical health, the associations between diet and mental health remain largely undiscovered. A team of researchers recently used survey data to investigate the role that diet plays in mental health. Key…
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With 3 COVID vaccines approved, is there a ‘best’ shot?
Americans love to have choices, and now there are three COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in the United States. But infectious disease experts say that all three protect strongly against severe COVID-19, so there is only one criteria to use…
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