Former HCA executive creates Send-It Healthcare to combat physician shortage
A former HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA) executive has created his own solution to help combat the ever-growing physician shortage.
Less than 0.1% of U.S. minors take gender-affirming medication, study finds
The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, looked at private insurance claims representing over 5 million patients in the U.S. ages 8 to 17.
Ancient doctor — expert in venomous bites — found buried in Egypt. See inside his tomb
A tomb recently unearthed in Egypt shows that medicine and magic were once equally revered, and expertise in both earned a long-dead physician to the pharaohs a place of honor among the ancient ...
Iron Man 2 actor jailed for eight years for selling fake COVID cure
Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, 57, was first arrested in March 2020 on a federal wire fraud charge for allegedly soliciting ...
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: This is ‘one of the most powerful antidotes to loneliness'
Whether we’re lonely or not has to to do with the quality of connections in our life, not the quantity,” Murthy said.
Fact check: Have there been placebo-controlled studies on childhood vaccines?
The claim has been swirling since Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was tapped to lead the U.S. Department of Health ...
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Five things we know and still don't know about COVID, five years after it appeared
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries. The disease has killed an ...
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5 things we know and still don't know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t ...
In City Hall’s actions in Philly's Kensington neighborhood, harm-reduction workers see efforts to curtail their work
Over the last year in Kensington, at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis, elected officials cut funding for a ...