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Researchers found millions of heart failure patients who qualify for standard, guideline directed medical therapies, but did not receive it due to poor health literacy, limited access to care and medication costs.

E-commerce giant Amazon has enabled an online price comparison tool for customers to find and compare the expected price of their medication.

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The new requirement covers all attendees, including exhibitors and HIMSS employees. The organization is still determining how it will validate each person's status. 

A novel AI-based model for clinical decision support has bested established machine-learning models at predicting how patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus will respond to various categories of therapeutic drugs.

Child vaccine

The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention has voted to recommend the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to children between 12 and 15, though a handful of states already lowered age restrictions on vaccines ahead of the vote.

 

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The Department of Health and Human Services has overturned a Trump-era rule that would have allowed healthcare providers to discriminate against patients based on sexual orientation or gender identity. 

 

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Biomedical and electrical engineers have invented a probe so small it must be inserted hypodermically yet can monitor vital signs and even stimulate tissue for therapeutic purposes.

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