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Change Healthcare on Monday said it will make its application programming interfaces available for free to help health plans comply with CMS’s recent interoperability and patient access final rule. WHY IT MATTERS The rule requires that payers enable access to patient data using open APIs by January 1, 2021. Additionally, health plans are required to address cybersecurity and consent risks […]
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Russia and India eased coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, despite facing upsurges in infections and expert warnings that the world could face a second wave epidemic. Chinese authorities, meanwhile, moved to test the entire 11-million strong population of the city of Wuhan, cradle of the global pandemic, after new cases were reported there. In Russia, the government began to gradually ease […]
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How to know if kids have coronavirus: Infections do NOT start with a fever in most children, small study finds, as experts warn parents to look out for diarrhea and nausea instead Researchers at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, looked at five hospitalized children under five years old Three of the five kids needed an emergency operation for conditions such […]
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Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the first “professional nurse.” The World Health Organization also named this year the “Year of the Nurse” in honor of Nightingale’s 200th birthday. To nurses everywhere, this day and this year have great significance. Nurses, who are being recognized as […]
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About two years ago, my life started falling apart at an alarming clip. I was married—spoiler alert: was—and had two young children. We all lived in New York in a too-small apartment, and I was at a point in my career as a writer where things, I thought, should be getting easier, but they weren’t. Everyone else had a house […]
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Children suffering from sickness and diarrhea, coupled with a fever or history of exposure to coronavirus, should be suspected of being infected with COVID-19, recommends a new study published in Frontiers in Pediatrics. The research also suggests that the gastrointestinal symptoms first suffered by some children hints at potential infection through the digestive tract, as the type of receptors in […]
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All of the positive qualities that Quinn found in Fauci translated perfectly to the character of Lanzer, a scientist who woos Sadie in Happy Endings, which is the sequel to 1986's Regrets Only. "What she [Sadie] saw in him is exactly what everyone is seeing in him now," Quinn said, mentioning the petition to name Fauci as PEOPLE's next "Sexiest […]
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By now you my have seen the viral Plandemic video on your Facebook newsfeed. The video centers around Judy Mikovits, a scientist whose work studying chronic fatigue syndrome was discredited, according to The New York Times. She offers a range of claims which discredits COVID-19 as a legitimate health crisis. In his typical fashion, Doctor Mike uses facts and science […]
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When the body faces stressful conditions such as high temperatures or lack of nutrients, cells produce the same large structures they make to combat virus infections. Scientists at The University of Toledo discovered the connection that could be an attractive bulls-eye to aim for when identifying new antiviral targets and immune modulators to fight diverse viruses. “In light of the […]
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Women who take high-dose folic acid supplements from pre-pregnancy through mid-pregnancy might increase their risk for potentially dangerous high blood pressure, according to new research. The study, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, sought to answer questions about the safety of prenatal folic acid vitamin supplements. Folic acid is the human-made form of folate, a form of […]
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