A new study analyzing Long COVID healthcare utilization in Colorado reveals a significant shift from acute care to outpatient services following diagnosis, shedding light on evolving treatment patterns and the broader healthcare burden posed by the condition.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans may no longer be pushing to wholly repeal Obamacare, but big cuts to the nation’s health system are still on the table.
ACLU senior counsel Joshua Block says Congress has passed laws prohibiting hospitals and health centers that receive federal funds from discriminating against patients on the basis of sex, and courts have found that those protections extend to transgender patients. "President Trump's executive orders attempt to direct grant recipients to do precisely what Congress has prohibited them from doing," Block says. "Congress said don't discriminate, and President Trump is saying you have to discriminate."
Understanding the role variations play in tumor evolution, and how to stop them, will aid physicians in making decisions and point to new targeted therapeutic interventions, the researchers believe.
Those who lose weight on Ozempic often find success has left them with sagging skin—a common side effect that is driving a boom in cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgeons say they have long had patients who wanted taut skin after bariatric surgery, an operation modifying the stomach. But the weight-loss drugs have prompted a surge in demand for such body-lift procedures, especially from younger patients. Some doctors call what they are doing a 360-degree body lift, which comprises multiple areas of skin tightening around the abdomen, hips, buttocks, lower back and even breasts and arms.
The Texas Department of State Health Services this week reported a measles outbreak involving school children in Gaines County, which is located southwest of Lubbock. In a statement yesterday, the DSHS said six cases have been reported in people whose symptoms began over the past 2 weeks. All are unvaccinated residents of Gaines County. Elsewhere, the Georgia Department of Public Health today reported two more measles cases in unvaccinated Atlanta residents. The patients are family members of a case confirmed in January.