79% of cancer patients report care delays, survey shows
(By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review) Most U.S. cancer patients receiving treatment have reported a delay of their care during
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Health Care – General
Nearly Half Of Americans Delayed Medical Care Due To Pandemic
(By Elizabeth Lawrence for Kaiser Health News) As the coronavirus threat ramped up in March, hospitals, health systems and private
Read MoreConcerned about your blood pressure? Medicare can help.
(Source- www.medicare.gov/blog) It’s difficult to detect high blood pressure. High blood pressure (also called “hypertension”) usually doesn’t have any warning
Read More‘Things Will Never Be The Same.’ How The Pandemic Has Changed Worship
(By Tom Gjelten for NPR) Christian worship in the United States, long characterized by its adherence to tradition, appears to have
Read MoreFor Cancer Patients, Anguish Grows Over Deferred Surgery As Risk Rises
(By Yuki Noguchi for NPR) Last June, days after her 40th birthday, Silver felt a lump in her left breast that
Read MoreMedicare helps protect you from viral hepatitis
(Source – www.medicare.gov/blog) Complications from hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus, kill nearly 1.4 million people
Read MoreMicrosoft, UnitedHealth Group launch COVID-19 app for returning remote workers
(By Laura Dyrda for Becker’s Hospital Review) Microsoft and UnitedHealth Group partnered to launch a new return-to-workplace protocol and COVID-19 symptom
Read MoreTourists, Beware: Foreign Visitors’ Travel Health Insurance Might Exclude Pandemics
(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) It was evident that the fever, nausea and loss of appetite Vlastimil
Read MoreReversing History, Indian Health Service Seeks Traditional Healers
(By Sydney Akridge for Kaiser Health News) Cheryl Morales started the medicinal garden at the Aaniiih Nakoda College demonstration farm
Read MoreFueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, remote heart monitoring could become tech’s next big target
(By Erin Brodwin for STAT) It was a shift that began long before the pandemic: Tech companies, health providers, and
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