The sharp decline in cancer screenings due to the suspension of elective medical procedures has prompted doctors to turn to...
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Category: Healthcare
New Dietary Guidelines Leave Sugar, Alcohol Limits Intact
For good health eat more fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. Get your protein from poultry, beans, nuts, and lean meat....
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Save a Life During National Blood Donor Month
It's National Blood Donor Month, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Across the country, hospitals and blood...
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Colleges Are Turning Away Nursing Students
Despite a nursing shortage that existed well before the COVID-19 pandemic turned it desperate, colleges are turning away tens of...
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The New ‘Normal’ Is Not 98.6
December 22nd, 2020 When mom took your temperature and decided that at 98.6 F you were fine, she might very...
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New Group Will Promote Decentralized Clinical Trials
Several of the world’s healthcare, bioscience and pharmaceutical firms, including such global leaders as AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Biogen have joined...
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COVID Is Prompting Youthful Vapers to Quit
COVID-19 has had at least one positive effect on health: Vaping, the use of e-cigarettes, among teens and young adults...
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Demand for Nurses Is Pushing Travel Pay Sky High
This fall’s surge in COVID cases is creating a nationwide “bidding war” for nurses so intense that pay is soaring...
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Study Shows Age Is No Barrier to Weight Loss
Here’s good news for those seniors who overdid it at the Thanksgiving table: It’s as easy for those over 60...
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Better COVID Treatments Are Saving Lives
We interrupt all the bad news about COVID with this from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: surviving the...
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Chronic Pain Patients Find Telehealth Cost Effective
Telehealth continues to demonstrate its popularity, this time among people suffering with chronic pain. At their annual meeting this month,...
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Hiring In Health Home Care Is As Tough As Ever
Far from becoming an employer market, hiring home health care workers is as hard as ever, industry executives say. In...
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Recognizing the Work of Radiologic Technologists
125 years ago this week, William Roentgen made one of the most momentous discoveries in both physics and medicine. On...
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In Recognition of Perioperative Nurses
You may never have heard of a perioperative nurse, but if you’ve had surgery, that’s who cared for you before,...
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In Honor of Home Care and Hospice Workers
Every day, all across the country millions of home care aides, therapists, nurses and social workers make life better for...
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Thank You Respiratory Therapists for the Vital Work You Do
Since first being proclaimed in 1982, National Respiratory Care Week has been celebrated in hospitals and clinics by respiratory therapists, their healthcare...
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Chronic Pain Patients Find Telehealth Cost Effective
Telehealth continues to demonstrate its popularity, this time among people suffering with chronic pain. At their annual meeting this month,...
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Dramatic Changes Are Transforming the Legal Profession
The business of lawyering is undergoing a transformation that is as dramatic as it is still little recognized even by...
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Dog Study Could Lead to Help For Humans with Sports Injuries
Osteoarthritis of the knee is a common condition in humans and in their canine companions. An estimated 20% of dogs...
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Honoring the Front of Frontline Healthcare Workers
Of all the frontline healthcare workers, emergency nurses are first in the line. These registered nurses staff a hospital’s emergency...
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