Primary care providers could add more than $100,000 to their incomes by billing more often for prevention and coordination of care services using Medicare codes, a new study shows. According to the new research, primary care physicians used these codes for a median of only 2.3% of services provided to eligible patients. “Investing in primary care is good for the […]

It’s been almost two weeks since federal regulators authorized COVID-19 vaccines for infants and preschoolers, but Katie Old Crow still hasn’t been able to get her 14-month-old son vaccinated. The Town ‘N Country, Florida, mother is waiting for her family’s pediatrician to vaccinate her son, Rollin, because most pharmacies only offer shots to kids ages 3 and older. Her pediatrician’s […]

Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry May 28 may lead to a new treatment against Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that an estimated 40 million people in the U.S. carry the parasite T. gondii, tylenol 3 high feeling […]

There’s no doubt that co-parenting can present some unique challenges, and most parents who are separated or divorced want to do everything they possibly can to minimize the impact on their kids. But in Reddit’s popular “Am I the A**hole” forum, one separated mom is wondering if she went too far … and Reddit is definitely weighing in. “Our daughter got […]

Blood pressure checks in BETTING SHOPS as part of NHS shake-up to ‘transform care’ New community health projects have been launched as part of an NHS shake-up Today sees 42 integrated care systems in charge of health services in England They replace more than 300 hospitals and clinical commissioning groups Idea is that patients will benefit from health services working closer together NHS bosses also […]

A study published in the Medical Journal of Australia, which assessed whether ambulance offload time influences the outcomes for patients experiencing cardiac issues, provides further evidence that access block is causing significant harm to patients. While there is currently no cardiac-specific data available in the emergency medicine literature, there is a substantive history of data that indicates, without doubt, can […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Ask the sibling of any celebrity and they’ll tell you they don’t get anywhere near the same attention. The same is true for coronaviruses – the one that causes COVID-19 has been in the spotlight for more than 2 years now, while the others at the […]

In a recent article, Kessler Foundation scientists advocated for the incorporation of virtual reality (VR) technology in cognitive rehabilitation research in multiple sclerosis (MS). They presented a conceptual framework supporting VR as an adjuvant to traditional cognitive rehabilitation and exercise training for MS, theorizing that VR could strengthen the effects of traditional rehabilitative therapies by increasing sensory input and promoting […]

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(Reuters) – Some Americans without access to safe local abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling are looking to the country’s northern and southern neighbors for access to reproductive care. While most Americans are likely to first try to access abortion in other states, providers in Mexico and Canada told Reuters they expect some people – especially from […]