Beginning in 2022, Cook County has leveraged American Rescue Plan dollars — federal emergency funds made available during the coronavirus pandemic — to wipe out over $382 million in medical debt for more than 213,000 residents.
More work is needed before implementing the strategy during the 2024 Paris games, and the authors recommend leveraging the existing network of 54 sites for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 circulation in wastewater treatment plants across France.
In these cases, clozapine is the treatment of choice, but its use in real clinical practice is often delayed or insufficient," explains Dr Alba Toll, head of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Group at IGTP and one of the principal authors of the study.
Colorado stands out among the 10 states that have disenrolled the highest share of Medicaid beneficiaries since the U.S. government lifted a pandemic-era restriction on removing people from the health insurance program.
In a YouTube video posted by the Columbia University Department of Surgery several years ago, Mehmet Oz discussed the origins of MitraClip and, using a model of the heart, explained how the device is used to treat leaky mitral valves.
Ballad Health spokesperson Molly Luton said the system’s performance has improved since statistics were collected for its 2023 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2023, and that ER wait times have shortened.
Assessing how sex and gender interact is crucial to understanding the mechanisms that maintain cognitive function and reduce the accumulation of pathologies in ageing and Alzheimer's disease, i.e. resilience and resistance factors."
In order to find out what distinguishes the repeatedly affected vascular regions from others, Daniela Wenzel and her team from Bochum and Bonn, which is part of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 259 "Aortic Diseases", developed a method to specifically examine the endothelium of the aorta: the innermost layer of the blood vessel.
Dennis Miskella, a senior medical officer and gynecologist in Embu County, Kenya, says it is important for women in Africa to have access to contraceptives to ensure proper spacing between pregnancies.
Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximize their chances of survival, a phenomenon that's been observed for the first time by researchers at UCL and University Medical Center Utrecht.
SARS-CoV-2 strain, JPN/NGS/SC-1/2020 (GISAID Accession ID: EPI_ISL_481254) was provided by Nagasaki University through the National BioResource Project (Human pathogenic viruses) of MEXT, Japan.
In the present non-randomized controlled trial, researchers evaluated the changes in cardiovascular risk variables over six weeks in obese individuals who underwent either a very low-energy diet (VLED, less than 800 kcal/day) or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery along with corresponding caloric restrictions and weight reduction.
