More than 70% of people who receive mental health therapy via an app are stressed by changes in their lives caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

The head of the largest pharmaceutical company by revenues is pulling no punches defending the profit motive in the fight against COVID-19.

The agency released a document Friday outlining its approach, which also includes more testing, contact tracing, and safely quarantining, isolating and treating minorities at risk.

As the “panic-demic” descended on the U.S. and Canada in March and April, older adults (ages 60 and up) coped better with the stress than both young adults (18–39 years old) and middle agers (40–59).

As Congress gets to work following its Independence Day break, provider lobbyists are pushing hard for a fifth relief package to stem the bleeding from widespread declines in patient visits. 

Where policy on coverage for COVID testing meets real people, the intended effect is snagging on two words: “medically appropriate.”

CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

Reports are arriving of filled hospitals turning away transfers, backlogged ambulances waiting hours to transport patients and shorthanded staffs appealing for relief workers.