Q-stock/Shutterstock By Haley Van Horn/Sept. 10, 2021 12:43 pm EDT If your birthday falls between August 23 and September 22, you’re a Virgo! According to Co-Star Astrology, you are a perfectionist and a clean freak who pays close attention to details. Virgos are intelligent and introverted and love to feel like they’re being useful. Whether that is in their daily routine […]
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Podcast guest Dr. Davin Lundquist The EHR revolutionized medical record-keeping, but it also created burdensome workflows that create barriers to positive patient-doctor relationships, negatively impacting the experiences of both patients and physicians and even contributing heavily to clinician burnout. Augmedix CMO and practicing physician Dr. Davin Lunquist joins us on today’s episode of HIMSSCast to talk about the realities of […]
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The “secrets” to healthy aging are anything but secret. They’re the conventional medical recommendations most people will hear from their doctor at a typical checkup: exercise, eat a healthy diet and keep up-to-date with your doctors’ visits and vaccinations. Each year, more evidence emerges to help us determine what that healthy diet should look like and how much exercise is […]
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(HealthDay)—Race and income—both individually and combined—affect the incidence of migraine diagnosis on admission to the hospital, according to a study published online Aug. 9 in the Journal of the National Medical Association. Francesco Amico, Ph.D., from the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences in Dublin, vytorin and lawsuit and colleagues used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database to identify patients admitted to […]
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(Reuters Health) – Health systems have prioritized COVID-19 patients for life-saving care during the pandemic, but a recent study suggests a different way to optimize scheduling and allocate beds to minimize years of life lost for all hospitalized patients. In a paper published in Nature Computational Science, researchers use a dataset of administrative claims data from the National Health Service […]
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Nearly 2.7 million people in the U.S. lost their health insurance over a 12-week period in the spring and summer of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by researchers at Duke University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. However, a different pattern emerged in fall 2020. While rates of employer-based coverage continued to decline during the […]
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United Airlines employees who are granted exemptions to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for religious reasons will be put on temporary unpaid leave starting next month. The airline cited the recent increase in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, particularly among unvaccinated people, according to CNBC. “Given the dire statistics…we can no longer allow unvaccinated people back into the workplace until we better understand how they […]
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Jacob Lund/Shutterstock By Maria Faller/Sept. 9, 2021 3:41 pm EDT Through the years, you may have noticed an uptick in certain social media tags such as #strongissexy, which has more than 2.4 million posts, and #womenwholift, with over 3.2 million posts. There is a good reason you are seeing more people lifting weights, whether on the ‘gram or in the gym, and you […]
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) attends a news conference in the United States Capitol in Washington, U.S., May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinWASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. lawmaker wants Congress to mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccines or recent negative tests for all domestic air and train travelers. Representative Don Beyer, a Democrat, introduced legislation to require proof of vaccination […]
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Most older adults are not using tax-advantaged savings accounts to save for future health expenses, a new poll of people age 50 to 80 suggests, and those who do are more likely to have high incomes and education levels, and to be in good health and under Medicare eligibility age. At the same time, 18% of people age 50 to […]
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