While suicide levels in the USA fell during the first year of the pandemic, Australian researchers warn the lower suicide rate now faces the challenge of dealing with the COVID-19 health and socio-economic gap in society. …
Health officials hope the rollout of covid shots for young children and other initiatives will boost routine vaccine rates that dropped during the pandemic and narrow socioeconomic disparities…
Although it’s possible to buy travel insurance that provides some health coverage, the devil is in the fine print. Obama-era laws that prevent refusal of payment for preexisting conditions don’t apply to travel insurance…
Politicians and many health experts have done their best to see the glass half-full in the plan put forward by congressional Democrats and the president. But it’s “a far cry” from what other nations do to rein in drug prices, and polls show most voters demand more protection…
The number of outbreaks and people affected in them plummeted in Austria in 2020 compared to the year before. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reported there were only 21 outbreaks this past year that affected 67 people. In 2019, 48 outbreaks sickened 793 people…
It will be able to assist its nursing and clinical teams in providing care…
MedPage Today) — Media multitasking, rather than total amount of time spent on digital media, reflected children’s stress levels, attention spans, and sleep, according to a small study of 8- to 12-year-olds. Higher levels of media multitasking…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT said it received more than 700 predictions from stakeholders about healthcare outcomes in 2030…
Jacki Monson, who is also chief technology risk officer and chief privacy officer at Sutter, previews her HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum virtual session – where she’ll discuss stakeholder alignment and “privacy and security by design…
Dr. Nasim Afsar will be in charge of the company’s efforts around patient care, focused on quality and safety, regulatory compliance, government and policy and continuous improvement…