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Experts demand No10 ‘urgently’ releases data behind new amber-plus list restrictions for France

Experts demand No10 ‘urgently’ releases data behind new amber-plus list restrictions for France as ministers opt against slapping Spain with same travel quarantine rules Travellers from France slapped with restrictions due to South African variant But official data shows Spain and Greece have more cases of this mutant strain Royal Statistical Society has called on… Read More »

Meet the woman behind one of Ireland’s Death Cafes: ‘Their popularity has surged during pandemic’

A nurse, a teacher, and a journalist log in to a Zoom. ups of tea and coffee in hand, they are participating in an online ‘Death Café’.  These people are meeting today because they share something in common: they are all going to die. Death Cafes bring people from all walks of life together to… Read More »

Critical access hospitals lag behind in advanced EHR use functions

A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that, although electronic health record adoption is essentially ubiquitous, critical access hospitals lag behind in advanced use functions.    “As EHR adoption has become universal, the need to measure hospital use of advanced EHR functions that go beyond the digitization… Read More »

Gentrification and declining Black population may be a key factor behind San Francisco’s declining HIV rates

Dramatic declines in HIV diagnoses in San Francisco have been attributed to testing, treatment and PrEP, but the declining Black population in the city is an unexamined factor, Dr Jade Pagkas-Bather of the University of Chicago and colleagues argue in the December issue of The Lancet HIV. There has been a 22% fall in San… Read More »

The science behind the ketogenic diet

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. I strongly encourage the author of the article to take one class via The Institute for Functional Medicine. Ring Smart Home Security Systems. HDL cholesterol levels significantly increased, whereas LDL cholesterol levels significantly decreased after treatment. I think monosaturated fats should be emphasized — such as is found in peanut butter… Read More »

What Will Healthcare Costs Be After COVID? PwC Looks Behind the 2021 Numbers

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. The three cost scenarios are based on assumptions shown in the fine print on the first chart:… Read More »