While the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared racism a serious threat to the nation’s health, establishment medicine finds itself mired in an angry scandal over doctors’ inability to recognize the term, much less its existence, or its considerable harms. An uproar at a leading medical journal might seem a tempest in….
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Battle stays bumpy against an uneven pandemic, fueling further uncertainty
The campaign to conquer the coronavirus pandemic is having its cautious optimism tested by a stubborn and concerning surge of cases in the Midwest and Northeast, as well as frustrating vaccine supply problems — worsened by manufacturing bungles in a Baltimore plant. Expert forecasters now see options for how the crucial next several months could….
Continue ReadingState license boards warn doctors of consequences for sexual misbehavior
Although state licensing boards have taken more than their fair share of criticism for failing to discipline bad doctors as quickly and severely as circumstances merit, regulators appear to be trying to get ahead of a problem that especially plagues women patients and women health staff: doctors’ sexual misbehavior. This inappropriate conduct can encompass a….
Continue ReadingCan U.S. billions keep seniors at home and out of problem nursing homes?
As the coronavirus pandemic’s most catastrophic effects recede in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, notably due to vaccinations and other public health measures, residents and their loved ones still face costly, confounding issues in safeguarding the aged, sick, and injured. The Biden Administration wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to help…..
Continue ReadingFrom Medicare seniors, lessons on delayed care and importance of insurance
Patients packed in their doctors’ waiting rooms in pre-pandemic times may have looked around and wondered: Why are there so many seniors here receiving medical care? It isn’t just age that gets older Americans in numbers to treatment for illness or injury or preventive care — it’s also, of course, their qualification at 65 for….
Continue ReadingU.S. teeters between vaccines’ rising successes and pandemic’s fourth wave
The coronavirus vaccine has shown powerful protective qualities when medical scientists scrutinized its large-scale results in real life. It has demonstrated great potency in safeguarding kids ages 12-15, in early test results from the shots’ makers. The inoculation appears to be lasting, ensuring patients for at least six months after did not suffer serious infection….
Continue ReadingThough the pandemic curtailed vehicle travel, pedestrian fatalities skyrocketed
Although Americans drove far fewer miles in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the pedestrian death rate skyrocketed nationally, with blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans dying in disproportionate numbers when struck by motorists. Preliminary data from the first half of last year shows that roughly the same number of pedestrian deaths occurred — 3,000 or….
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