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Month: April 2020

Emerging Health Issues Veterans Benefits 

The Military Veterans Social Distancing Coffee Chat Room

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

Using Zoom, the Military Veterans Social Distancing Coffee Chat Room is courtesy of collaboration between a Pennsylvania Legionnaire, the Chapel

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Retina study eyes Alzheimer’s processes to target for early screening

April 30, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(Source -www.nia.nih.gov/news) Adding to other studies looking to the visual system, researchers peering into postmortem eye tissue have identified molecular

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Walgreens lowers prices on hundreds of prescription drugs

April 30, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

( By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Walgreens cut the costs of hundreds of its prescription drugs in response

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Mind-controlled prosthetic arm enables patients to feel the objects they grip

April 30, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Shafaq Zia for STAT) When electrician Rickard Normark lost his left arm after an electric shock at work in

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Emerging Health Issues Health Care - General Health Care Finance 

Free Clinics Try To Fill Gaps As COVID Sweeps Away Job-Based Insurance

April 30, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Michaela Gibson Morris for Kaiser Health News) TUPELO, Mississippi — Joe Delbert hadn’t needed the Tree of Life Free

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Emerging Health Issues Part D/Prescription Drugs 

Amazon, Walgreens, CVS face shortage of heartburn drug being tested as COVID-19 treatment

April 29, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) After researchers at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health announced April 27 that they’re

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LabCorp offering free antibody tests for anyone with provider order

April 29, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospitl Review) LabCorp is now offering free COVID-19 antibody tests for anyone with an order from

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Emerging Health Issues Part D/Prescription Drugs 

Gilead says critical study of Covid-19 drug shows patients are responding to treatment

April 29, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(By Matthew Herper and Adam Feuerstein for STAT) A government-run study of Gilead’s remdesivir, perhaps the most closely watched experimental

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Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs 

What you should know if you decide to enroll in Medicare

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a histrionic impact on employment in the United States and around the world.   For those

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Medical Technology Medicare - General Part D/Prescription Drugs 

5 things to know about the Medicare appeals process

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Eileen Cook 0 Comment

(Source – www.medicare.gov/blog) If you disagree with a coverage or payment decision made by your Medicare health or prescription drug

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