The researchers solicited 306 adults—188 in the U.S. and 118 in South Korea—for their views on contact tracing, quarantine monitoring and public mapping of sites recently visited by COVID-positive individuals.

Registered nurses took to the streets en masse Jan. 27 to “demand hospital execs protect us and our communities with safe staffing.”

Fewer than 10% of dermatology patients who were seen virtually during the COVID pandemic said they would not use teledermatology again—and only 7% said they’d not recommend telehealth to a friend.

Almost a quarter of families would have balked before bringing an ill or injured child to the emergency department last spring, when COVID-19’s initial surge was underway in the U.S.

Google searches for “telehealth” have fallen far since peaking in March 2020. However, the term is plateauing at a rate that’s 320% higher than in pre-pandemic times.

Another quick field check has found the federal rule requiring hospitals to show their prices for shoppable services meeting with only spotty compliance since it went into effect Jan. 1.

Fifteen-hospital McLaren Health Care has agreed to pay $7.75 million for illegally distributing prescription painkillers. 

Looking ahead, researchers predicted that COVID-19 will keep heart disease as the world’s No. 1 cause of death for quite some time.

That's according to a study of 114 patients who were discharged from the hospital after being treated for the disease, published in Radiology.

TMIST enrolled more participants than all other National Cancer Institute trials combined since July, the American College of Radiology reported.