Health News and More

Health By Hank Sanders from NYT Health https://ift.tt/Bkv9HYK via IFTTT Telemedicine, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Doctors, Home Health Care, Videophones and Videoconferencing, Science and Technology A Texas hospital is experimenting with hologram technology for doctors to see patients. Some health care experts wonder if it’s beneficial.

Health By Carl Zimmer from NYT Health https://ift.tt/8zljbOu via IFTTT Cattle, Dairy Products, Avian Influenza, Research, Viruses, your-feed-science, your-feed-animals Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained.

Health By Roni Caryn Rabin, Teddy Rosenbluth and Noah Weiland from NYT Health https://ift.tt/kw75hCZ via IFTTT your-feed-science, United States Politics and Government, Surgery and Surgeons, Breasts, Teenagers and Adolescence, Age, Chronological, Gender, Transgender, Mastectomy, Youth The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/Dkil4p0 via IFTTT your-feed-science, Ethics and Official Misconduct, Falsification of Data, Clinical Trials, Frauds and Swindling, Alzheimer's Disease, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at City College, published studies supporting simufilam, now in advanced clinical trials.

Health By Teddy Rosenbluth and Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT Health https://ift.tt/BpT6KLP via IFTTT your-feed-science, Decisions and Verdicts, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Law and Legislation, Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council (Supreme Court Decision), Medicine and Health, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Air Pollution, United States Politics and Government, Masks, Clean Air Act

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/crUTCv7 via IFTTT your-feed-science, Vaccination and Immunization, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Disease Rates, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Elderly, Hospitals, Deaths (Fatalities), Viruses, Research, Children and Childhood As the virus continues to mutate, scientific advisers to the C.D.C. are urging Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.

Health By Jan Hoffman from NYT Health https://ift.tt/x3ZojQg via IFTTT Drug Abuse and Traffic, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Bankruptcies, Pain-Relieving Drugs, Decisions and Verdicts, OxyContin (Drug), Deaths (Fatalities), Opioids and Opiates, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Addiction (Psychology), Attorneys General, your-feed-healthcare Plaintiffs and the company vowed to renegotiate but the talks will be challenging after the court struck down a provision the Sacklers had insisted on in exchange for $6 billion.

Health By Apoorva Mandavilli from NYT Health https://ift.tt/Yrtox5K via IFTTT your-feed-science, Vaccination and Immunization, Disease Rates, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Respiratory Diseases Fewer Americans age 60 to 74 should receive the shots, the agency concluded, citing reduced risks and a possible neurological side effect.

Health By Azeen Ghorayshi from NYT Health https://ift.tt/0osyYX1 via IFTTT Age, Chronological, Transgender, United States Politics and Government, Teenagers and Adolescence, Surgery and Surgeons, Gender, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Hormones Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age minimums for surgery in minors because of concerns over political fallout.

Health By Oliver Whang from NYT Health https://ift.tt/lRtvqMb via IFTTT Weight, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Obesity, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Government Employees, Semaglutide (Drug), Medicaid, Ozempic (Drug), Doctors Public employees in West Virginia who took the drugs lost weight and were healthier, and some are despondent that the state is canceling a program to help pay for them.