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Winter has a way of bringing out the worst of the coronavirus. Last year, the season saw a record surge that left nearly 250,000 Americans dead and hospitals overwhelmed around the country. This year, we are much better prepared, with…

By Cara MurezHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Grandmothers can have a strong bond with the little children in their families — and the connection even shows up on brain scans, researchers say. The investigators embarked on…

  The field of RNA interference therapies is bustling with activity and Novo Nordisk is the latest company to make a move with an agreement to buy Dicerna Pharmaceuticals for $3.3 billion, a deal that comes as the first therapy…

By MARIE DUNN A little more than 20 years ago, the IOM report To Err is Human catalyzed the profession around the realization that our health care system was killing around 98,000 people a year from medical error. I am…

“A lot of improper payments are not the result of fraud, they are the result of insufficient documentation and codes that are the subject of disagreement between the provider and CMS’ contractors,” said Mike Adelberg, a principal at Faegre Drinker…

In late February 2020, only a couple of weeks after the pandemic coronavirus disease had even received a formal name, a man with a terrible cough and fever showed up at one of the ProHealth Urgent Care centers in Queens,…

Nov. 17, 2021 — Growing reports that white-tailed deer have been infected with the coronavuris along with continuing infections and illness in zoo animals and pets, is giving rise to concern that animals may become reservoirs for the development of…

Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) can transform even the most easygoing, unflappable individual into a full-time worrywart. Even in periods of extended remission, when symptoms are kept mercifully at bay for weeks or even months at a time, the…

By MIKE MAGEE In my course this fall at the President’s College at the University of Hartford, we began by exploring the word “right” at the intersection of health care services and the U.S. Constitution.  But where we have ended…

Challenges to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers will be consolidated in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel dominated by judges appointed by Republicans. The Cincinnati-based court was selected Tuesday in a random drawing…