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Kroger’s specialty pharmacy helped patients with rheumatoid arthritis, growth hormone deficiencies, multiple sclerosis and bleeding disorders. The company says in-store retail pharmacies would not be included in the transaction. 

Hypertension patients measured their blood pressure less frequently during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published in Hypertension. In addition, when those patients did measure their blood pressure, the readings were less healthy than they had been before the pandemic.

Fast Track Diagnostics produced Siemens’s SARS-CoV-2 Assay test kits early in the Covid-19 pandemic, but a decline in testing demand from the peak of the pandemic led to the decision to shutter the unit.

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It’s more critical for U.S. healthcare to get medical AI right than to get it adopted far, wide and ASAP.

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More than 5,000 U.S. physicians joined forces to launch the new group. They say they are focused on limiting private equity's involvement and influence in healthcare. 

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Early May will mark the first anniversary of the officially declared end of the COVID-19 public health emergency by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nevertheless ... 

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.