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As Wonderful as They Are, Antibiotics Aren’t a Cure-all

Healthcare Associates

Naturally, you go to your primary care doctor thinking you know just what you need. Early on, doctors found that some strains of bacteria were resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics that were added to the medical community’s bacteria-fighting arsenal. Pharmaceutical companies simply aren’t developing many new ones.

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The End of One Health Crisis Must Not Lead to a New One

HIT Consultant

As much as we would like to go back to normal, it seems that simply turning the page on the PHE without carrying forward what we learned during Covid will leave millions of Americans scrambling for healthcare and disengaging from essential preventive health services. I know too well about the heavy price of late detection.

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Getting Health Care at a Retail Pharmacy vs a Retail Store: Consumers May Be Favoring the Pharmacist Versus the Retailer

Health Populi

Strikingly, the trust deficit with retail stores for medical care was substantial, with 80% of consumers telling Wolters Kluwer that they would “probably never” go to a department store for health care. adults were open to have medications prescribed by a specially-trained pharmacist instead of a doctor.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

The metrics compared were access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes. ranked number 11 out of 11 nations with the exception of care process, based on four pillars: preventive care, safe care, coordinated care, and engagement and patient preferences.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

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Superbug in Oregon? What Essential Oil Research Tells Us

American College of Healthcare Sciences

It may also provide synergy with current pharmaceutical antifungals and other effective treatment protocols such as starving the fungi of iron. [10]. As of August 31, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified 3,043 patients colonized with C. 12] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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How COVID-19 Has Re-Shaped Health Care Delivery So Far

Health Populi

Patients’ visits to doctor’s offices and clinical labs for diagnostic tests dramatically declined since the start of the pandemic. StayHome, shelter-in-place mandates coupled with patients’ concerns about preventing personal exposure to the coronavirus, kept people home.