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CVS Health’s Telehealth Clinic Visits Surge Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
May 6, 2020 / Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor CVS Health reported a 600% surge in use of its retail health…
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Managing Your Orthopaedic Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
ROSEMONT, Ill., May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented situation that has raised healthcare questions for patients of…
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Is telehealth here to stay?
May 4, 2020 / By Krystina Alarcon | Fox News With the surge of doctors’ offices transitioning to telemedicine platforms during the…
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Cleveland Clinic, Epic develop home monitoring tool for COVID-19 patients
April 30, 2020 / Lydia Coutre, Crain’s Cleveland Business Cleveland Clinic worked with Epic, its electronic health record vendor, to develop and…
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Top White House healthcare policy deputy resigns
April 30, 2020 / RACHEL COHRS The White House’s top healthcare policy adviser will leave his post next month, a…
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Mass General/Harvard Lab Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor to Decontaminate N95 Masks
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 24, 2020 They didn’t secure 500,000 test kits from South Korea. They did something…
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Cost-effective canopy protects health workers from COVID-19 infection during ventilation
April 23, 2020 / Jeff Lagasse, Associate Editor Healthcare workers are rightly being lauded as heroes as they hunker down on…
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VA medical facilities struggle to cope with coronavirus
April 23, 2020 / Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As she treated patient after patient infected with the coronavirus at a Veterans Affairs…
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Forcing U.S. Doctors to Ration Care for All Patients
April 22, 2020 / BY ALICE PARK AND JEFFREY KLUGER Lianne Kraemer knows she’s in a precarious position. She has stage-4, terminal breast…
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COVID-19: The Pathway Back to Elective Surgery
April 10, 2020 / Karin Best Nitin Khanna M.D.Spine Care Specialists,Munster, Indiana The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has taken the world…
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Neither Storm Nor Virus Can Keep New Orleans Down
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., April 21, 2020 New Orleanians are seasonal beings, and at this time of the year,…
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Extremities
AAOS Releases Clinical Considerations for Resuming Elective Surgery
April 21, 2020 The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has released clinical considerations for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic including the decision…
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Nurses are protesting working conditions under coronavirus — and say hospitals aren’t protecting them
April 20, 2020 / By Janelle Griffith A nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said she was sent home…
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Begging for Thermometers, Body Bags, and Gowns: U.S. Health Care Workers Are Dangerously Ill-Equipped to Fight COVID-19
April 20, 2020 / BY ZOË SCHLANGER As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in the U.S., health care…
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3 Ways That Coronavirus Will Significantly “Disrupt” The Healthcare Industry
April 17, 2020 / Sai Balasubramanian, J.D., Contributor The coronavirus has upended life for nearly every country and person worldwide.…
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