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A new study out Wednesday is the latest to show that the covid-19 pandemic is taking a heavy toll on Americans mental health. The research found that more than a quarter of adults surveyed have clearly experienced depression symptoms recentlyover three times as many who said the same in a…
When Sean Lane founded his health tech startup, Olive, in 2012, he looked to the giants of Silicon Valley for inspiration. Google had a corporate chef, so Olive hired one too. Apple had a gym on its campus, so Olive built one of those. It also added an on-site barbershop…
No one could quite figure out what replace was, said Adam Brandon, the president of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group, as he recalled the partys struggle to repeal the law known as Obamacare after President Trumps election. Thats where the problem was, and we never recovered from it. And we…
The abolition of Public Health England will damage the fight against obesity, smoking and alcohol misuse, the UKs doctors and public health experts have told the prime minister. More than 70 health organisations have written to Boris Johnson outlining their fears about last months controversial axing of PHE, which prompted…
The U.S. wont contribute to an international effort to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19, the White House said on Tuesday, because it involves the corrupt World Health Organization and China. Per the Washington Post, the U.S. isnt participating in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access…
No matter how fast medicine moves us towards treatments, preventive medicine will always be the most effective and cheapest way to keep healthy. In this post, well run down some common womens health screening tests, when you should get them, and what youre in for when you walk in. (If…
Apple and Google are continuing to make good on their planned roll-out of exposure notification technology for helping with COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. The two partners are introducing new tools that make it much easier for public health authorities to implement digital exposure notification, without the need for developing and…
PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business. Founded in 2016 by a former international development worker and Crohn’s…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s health ministry said on Tuesday it planned to participate in the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 vaccine programme known as COVAX. A ministry official told reporters Japan would join COVAX, which had an Aug. 31 deadline for countries to express interest. The decision is non-binding, the official…
