Among the more unnerving surprises of the coronavirus pandemic for most people was learning just how vulnerable and thinly stretched some areas of our healthcare system really are. Between the panic over personal protective equipment (PPE), the concern over not having enough hospital beds and...
Remote medical service Teladoc missed payments for some doctors, which the company attributed to the extreme growth pains of the pandemic requiring its services much more than before. Remote medical services like Teladoc work by facilitating meetings with a physician via telephone or computer. The...
Benjamin Franklin famously noted that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — a lesson the U.S. medical industry has learned the hard way. Over the last several weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, concerns have mounted that the U.S. has neither the...
Healthcare is top of mind as the coronavirus hits hard everywhere. The inefficiencies of the system itself are on full display during the pandemic — where testing is hard to come by, diagnoses and treatments are reactive rather than proactive, and many people do not...
On a good day, healthcare providers do a difficult job. In the last several weeks, that difficult job has become a heroic labor nationwide as workers on the front lines battle back the coronavirus pandemic. And the front lines aren’t the only areas of the...
UnitedHealth is working on getting around $2 billion in payments to doctors and other health professionals over the next week, the insurance giant says. The move will try to ease the financial stress that the coronavirus has stricken upon the U.S. economy, particularly to stop...
New federal rules will standardize how health data is shared and mandate that people have digital access to their own medical records, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (March 9). It is anticipated that the new regulations will benefit the growing medical data industry....
Although house calls were the most common method by which doctors gave medical care just a few generations ago, as of the second decade of the 20th century, most people are long since habituated to the idea that a doctor is someone one goes out...
Be thankful you don’t have lipodystrophy. It’s a condition in which the body cannot control production of fat tissue. It can cause energy control problems and diabetes, and even worse, the drug that can control it, Myalept, is a bit expensive. List price for Myalept:...
