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Small clinics, practices key to COVID-19 vaccine success: State officials
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- Alicia Ault
Primary care physicians’ offices and other small practice settings are “where we are most likely to reach many...
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Percentage of doctors who are Black barely changed in 120 years
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- Alicia Ault
A study also found a significant wage gap between Black and White physicians.
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HHS proposes overturning Title X ‘gag’ rule
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- Alicia Ault
The new regulation proposes to “ensure access to equitable, affordable, client-centered, quality family-planning services for all clients,...
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Feds let Illinois extend postpartum Medicaid coverage: HHS encourages other states to follow suit
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- Alicia Ault
HHS data shows that more than half of pregnant women in Medicaid experienced a coverage gap in the first 6 months post partum and that disruptions...
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Detroit cardiologists prevail in retaliation suit against Tenet
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- Alicia Ault
The hospital system giant must pay $10.6 million to two cardiologists it fired. A further appeal is possible.
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Senate confirms Murthy as Surgeon General
- Author:
- Alicia Ault
He is not new to this role.
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Journal to retract psych paper after plagiarism allegations, editor steps down
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- Alicia Ault
"At least we can now submit it to a new journal in a version that appropriately represents our work and expertise," said Dr. Amy Barnhorst.
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Rollout of COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies lacked unified plan: expert panel
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- Alicia Ault
Monoclonal antibodies are in ample supply, but a lack of a plan to administer them has led to major underutilization of these therapies.
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Psychiatrist alleges plagiarism by journal editor
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- Alicia Ault
“We just want this article pulled down and retracted,” said Dr. Amy Barnhorst.
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Feds look to retrofit factories to increase COVID vaccine production
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- Alicia Ault
Mr. Slavitt said the team had identified 12 areas in which President Biden was authorized to use the Defense...
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Are there COVID-19–related ‘long-haul’ skin issues?
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- Alicia Ault
Dr. Freeman believes that pernio and especially persistent lesions are caused by an immune response to COVID.
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President Biden signs 10 new orders to help fight COVID-19
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- Alicia Ault
Biden said as many as 500,000 Americans will have died by February. “It’s going to take months for us to turn things around.”
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Feds to states: Give COVID-19 vaccine to 65+ and those with comorbidities
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- Alicia Ault
The federal government will also increase the number of sites eligible to receive vaccine – including some 13,...
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New coalition demands urgent action on COVID-19 mental health crisis
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- Alicia Ault
Since the pandemic began, the prevalence of depression symptoms has jumped threefold and overdose deaths have increased in 40 states, the group...
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COVID-related harm to HCWs must be tracked more rigorously: NAS panel
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- Alicia Ault
Although the data are still limited, the prevalence of burnout and suicide points to a serious concern, according to the report.