CDC urges Americans to avoid Thanksgiving travel
Photo Cred: Craig Adderley/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged Americans in its latest guidance to avoid travel during the Thanksgiving holiday and...
Read MoreFDA authorizes first at-home COVID-19 test
Photo Cred: Mufid Majnun/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first at-home novel coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnostic test that provides rapid results,...
Read MorePopulation management, online program helps patients lose weight, study finds
Photo Cred: Pixabay/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital paired an online weight loss program with a phone- and email-based population health management program, and determined that patients in...
Read MoreMild fatty liver disease linked to increased mortality, study finds
Photo Cred: Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Massachusetts General Hospital in the Boston, Massachusetts found that even mild non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)...
Read MoreCertain pre-existing conditions increase mortality risk for COVID-19
Photo Cred: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke, and cancer increase a patient’s risk of dying from the novel coronavirus...
Read MoreBlood sugar control boosts brain health for type 2 diabetes patients
Photo Cred: PhotoMIX Company/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Controlling blood sugar levels improved the ability to clearly think, learn, and remember among people with type 2 diabetes who were overweight, according...
Read MorePandemic has created influx of potentially substandard research, experts say
Photo Cred: Pixabay/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created a flood of potentially substandard research amid the rush to publish, with a string of papers retracted...
Read MorePaper highlights shortcomings in telemedicine amid pandemic
Photo Cred: Anna Shvets/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Despite increased use of telemedicine during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Americans have had significantly fewer consultations with primary care doctors and markedly...
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