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Americans will most likely pay significantly more for Covid medical care during this new wave of cases - be it a routine coronavirus test or an extended hospital stay.At the beginning of the pandemic, most of the major health insurers…

Dr. Joseph Varon (right) and Jeffrey Ndove (left) perform a hypothermia treatment procedure on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Christmas Eve at United Memorial Medical Center December 24, 2020 in Houston, Texas.Nakamura go…

A group of nearly 60 major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, called for mandatory vaccination of health workers on Monday. With the highly contagious Delta variant…

In the development of disease treatments, the stage between basic research and advanced clinical trials is known as “the valley of death.”While ample public grants fund early-stage research and pharmaceutical companies are willing to fund…

When Dr. Sneha Sheth went online last summer to begin filling out applications for an internship training course - the next phase of her training after graduation - she was gripped by disappointment.Of the 500 degree programs she…

The report "shows the point that Covid can affect almost any organ system for a long time," said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, director of research and development for the VA St. Louis Health Care System, who was not involved in the new study."Some of…

After the JAMA podcast, Dr. Givens to listing the race, gender, and ethnicity of editors and members of the editorial board of the JAMA Journal Network and the New England Journal of Medicine. The current editor of JAMA Dermatology may be…

US privacy laws need to be updated, especially after Google signs a deal with a major hospital chain, medical ethics expert Arthur Kaplan said on Wednesday. "Now we have electronic medical records, huge amounts of data, and it's like asking…

Recording artist Snoop Dogg speaks on stage on day one of . Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 21, 2015 in San Francisco, California.Getty ImagesLONDON - Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies, happily endorsed by rapper Snoop Dogg and…

Shubham Chandra left a well-paying job with a New York start-up to manage the hundreds of medical bills that resulted from his father's seven-month hospital stay. His father, a cardiologist, died of coronavirus last fall.For months he has…