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A new study has reaffirmed that consumers don’t really shop around to find lower healthcare prices.

More than 206,000 consumers enrolled in a healthcare plan during the Covid-19 special enrollment period (SEP), according to new data reported by Health Affairs.

 

Even patients who were never hospitalized for COVID-19 face a heightened risk of cardiovascular issues. #longcovid

Physician spending fell 57% below pre-pandemic levels in April 2020, according to a new report from the American Medical Association that reveals changes in the Medicare program during the first six months of 2020.

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Researchers in Italy have demonstrated a no-cost, AI-based technique for detecting the presence of previously undiagnosed abnormalities in blood sugar stability.

Researchers found the reason radiation and anthracyclines in some patients causes cardio toxicity may be due to the cGAS–STING pathway. This holds great potential as a treatment to prevent cardiac complications of DNA-damaging cancer treatments in new cardio-oncology research. Pathology Laboratory

Clinical laboratories store a motherlode of objective and structured patient data well primed for mining with AI. Given this reality, pathologists and medical laboratorians must set and abide by principles guiding the ethical use of the technology.

A number of healthcare companies were designated among Glassdoor’s 100 “Best Places to Work” list for 2021. 

 

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