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Clinical Care
Opioid Use Disorder Plays Significant Role in Many Sepsis CasesAbout 30,000 to 40,000 opioid use disorder patients are hospitalized with sepsis each year.
Covid-19
Pharmacies Are Turning Away Immunocompromised Patients Seeking 4th COVID ShotMany pharmacists are unaware that the CDC's vaccine guidance has changed.
Covid-19
Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective COVID Antibody TreatmentsUse of the newly ineffective treatments produced by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Co. is highest in a dozen...
Payer
Wildfires and Omicron Prompt a Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period in ColoradoThe move underscores how much industry attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act have changed.
Clinical Care
Kidney Failure, Emergency Rooms and Medical Debt. The Unseen Costs of Food Poisoning. A salmonella outbreak sickened more than 60 people at a funeral reception in Texas. Two years later, some of them...
Covid-19
As Omicron Surges, Effort to Vaccinate Young Children StallsPediatricians say the slow pace and geographic disparities are alarming, especially against the backdrop of record numbers of cases and...
Covid-19
Incidental Cases and Staff Shortages Make COVID's Next Act Tough for HospitalsUnlike previous COVID surges, large portions of the patients with COVID are coming to the hospital for other reasons.
Covid-19
Watch and Listen: Examining the Risks of COVID's Spread Within HospitalsMore than 10,000 patients were diagnosed with COVID after being hospitalized for other medical conditions in 2020.
Clinical Care
Top 10 HealthLeaders Coronavirus Pandemic Stories of 2021HealthLeaders covered many of the most pressing coronavirus pandemic stories last year, including lessons learned, vaccination challenges and efforts, behavioral...
Clinical Care
Is It Time to Change the Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that everyone 18 and older get a covid booster shot, revising...
Covid-19
As Constituents Clamor for Ivermectin, Republican Politicians Embrace the CauseDemands for access to the drug are loud and insistent, despite federal regulators' recent warning against using the drug to...
Covid-19
Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for COVID, Some Never Came Out.About 21% of the patients who contracted COVID in the hospital from April to September last year died. In contrast,...