Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. The Mayo Clinic published an informative piece on Feet and the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Cleveland Clinic posted advice on exercising during the pandemic… Read More »
Boris Johnson promises NHS will get ‘all the funding it needs’ to get through Covid backlog as number waiting for routine treatment hits ANOTHER record-high with 4.7million patients on the list 387,885 people have now waited more than a year for hospital treatment 30.3% of people diagnosed with cancer are waiting more than two months… Read More »
A major side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was its impact on the national U.S. economy, jobs, and peoples’ household finances — in particular, medical spending. In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. This broad-spanning patient… Read More »
The government is reportedly abandoning its 50% capacity requirement for migrant child care centers to allow facilities to hit 100% capacity despite the coronavirus pandemic. An internal document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that coronavirus protocols are being relaxed in an effort to detain the thousands of unaccompanied children arriving every… Read More »
A Harvard immunologist said current vaccines appear to be effective enough to end the pandemic, despite growing concerns that more infectious COVID-19 variants would severely blunt the effectiveness of the preventative treatments and set the nation back in its fight against the disease. Galit Alter, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Ragon… Read More »