On his return from China last week, Dr. Ian Lipkin quarantined himself in his basement. His wife now puts his food on the stairs. He’s run out of things to watch on Netflix. At odd hours, he walks in New York’s Central Park, keeping 10 feet away from others. Lipkin is among hundreds of people […]
Toward the end of January, the CDC confirmed that the novel coronavirus, which is making headlines around the world, has spread between two people in the U.S, which marked the first time direct transmission happened on U.S. shores. But the CDC has also said that the transmission happened between a coronavirus patient and her husband, […]
A Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died after coming down with the illness Friday, a hospital reported. The Wuhan Central Hospital said on its social media account that Dr. Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, was “unfortunately infected during the […]
High blood pressure occurs when the force of blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high. While this may seem harmless, consistently high blood pressure causes the arteries that transport blood to your heart to lose their stretchiness and narrow. Restricting the blood flow to your heart starves it of oxygen, a mechanism […]
The Medical Assistance Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James) has helped more than 30,000 patients gain access to vital medications valued at more than $500 million, and a new program expansion will further increase access to vital cancer therapies for patients […]
I have just finished watching The Goop Lab and I feel … conflicted. I’m a doctor, so I’m supposed to hate The Goop Lab, but I didn’t, at least not all of it. Like Gwyneth Paltrow, I am deeply invested in the idea that we only have one life, and I want to "milk the […]
AI-assisted cardiac ultrasound guidance software receives De Novo clearance HIMSSCast: Digital Health around Boston The pursuit of a 10X better value-based care enablement: Tactics for entrepreneurs to accelerate transition from FFS to FFV Source: Read Full Article
Foreign Office warns ALL 30,000 British people in China to LEAVE as global death toll from deadly coronavirus outbreak hits 427 Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said British people’s safety was the top priority The Government had already advised people not to go to China unless necessary Now they recommend that anybody there should leave as […]
As the second-leading cause of death in the United States, cancer is a public health crisis that afflicts nearly one in two people during their lifetime. Cancer is also an oppressively complex disease. Hundreds of cancer types affecting more than 70 organs have been recorded in the nation’s cancer registries—databases of information about individual cancer […]
Children with higher concentrations of a certain chemical in their blood are more likely to get cavities, according to a new study by West Virginia University School of Dentistry researchers. Manufactured chemical g roups called perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are universal as a result of extensive manufacturing and use. Although manufacturers no longer use PFAS […]
