[ People with long Covid have distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood which could potentially be targeted with immune therapies, the largest study of its kind has revealed. In an analysis of more than 650 people who had been hospitalised with severe Covid-19, patients with prolonged symptoms showed evidence of immune system activation. … Read more
[ Hospitals must obtain informed consent from patients before allowing physicians to conduct sensitive and invasive examinations, such as pelvic and prostate, particularly if the patients are under anesthesia, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monday. In new guidance and in a letter sent to teaching hospitals, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and … Read more
[ Grey’s Anatomy has run for so long that it’s easy to think of the show like Saturday Night Live – people have their preferred eras and favorite cast members from certain decades who have come and gone. (And through it all, Ellen Pompeo, like Kenan Thompson, has managed to stick around for way longer than … Read more
[ The Good Doctor was one of the first shows we reviewed when we started writing this Stream It Or Skip It column back in 2017, and boy did we hate it. It had a promising idea behind it, featuring a surgeon who is on the autism spectrum with savant syndrome, but it felt like … Read more
[ WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that is crippling operations at a premier Midwestern children’s hospital, and that the U.S. government is doing too little to prevent such breaches. Hospitals in recent years have shifted their use of online technology to … Read more
[ G Square, South India’s largest plot promoter has announced the availability of commercial plots in the largest plotted communities in Coimbatore. The commercial plots will mainly be present in the prime localities of Coimbatore and Chennai, mainly Kovaipudur (next to CS Academy) and the Coimbatore (L&T) Bypass near the Trichy Road … Read more
[ Patient falls and infections spiked at hospitals that were taken over by private equity firms according to a new study. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of American Medicine, used data from 100 percent Medicare Part A claims and found that three years after hospitals experienced private equity acquisition, there was a 25.4 … Read more
[ Netflix viewers around the world must have really loved their Norwegian 2019-2020 romantic comedy-drama series Home for Christmas, because Yoh! Christmas is their second international title to be based on the original in the last two years. Luckily, though the central story remains the same, Yoh! Christmas is a show that still stands alone … Read more
[ An MSCI index tracking 81 Chinese health care stocks with a combined market value of HK$1.15 trillion (US$148 billion) advanced 61 per cent in 2020, the biggest gain since 2003 as the pandemic fuelled online delivery channels. WuXi Biologics, the biggest constituent with 20.5 per cent weight, surged 213 per cent, making it the … Read more
