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Patients with concurrent tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 have a high risk for death, according to a study published online April 26 in PLOS Global Public Health. Alice V. Easton, Ph.D., from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City, and colleagues compared mortality (March 2020 to June 2022) between

It’s no secret that drug prices in the U.S. are significantly higher than in other countries. About a quarter of U.S. adults surveyed last year by the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll reported not filling a prescription, taking a partial dose, or skipping doses altogether because of the cost. “We see patients who can’t

April 5, 2023 -- Barbara Rosebrock was heading to the doctor’s office to learn how to use her 8-year-old daughter’s new insulin pump when health care as she knew it forever changed. It was March 11, 2020. With a mysterious new virus entering the U.S., vulnerable patients like Aubrey -- recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes

After the near emergency ramp-up of video visits across the organization when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, that serves Kentucky and Indiana, evaluated some of its outcomes, including willingness to do more video visits in the future. THE PROBLEM One of the challenges was with the lack

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Urology involves some of the most intimate medical conditions, yet patients don't necessarily always prefer to be treated by a urologist of their own gender, new research has found. In some situations, male and female patients would prefer a male urologist but in others—if they have a painful condition, for example—both

Skip to main content January 17, 2023 05:28 PM A record number of patients delayed medical care because of high costs last year, according to survey results Gallup published Tuesday. Gallup found that 38% of respondents or a family member delayed treatment over costs in 2022, a 12 percentage point increase compared to 2020 and

Opinion > Second Opinions — Our healthcare systems would crumble without them by Kirk Taylor, MD January 15, 2023 Unpaid family caregivers -- the friends and relatives who step in to play the pivotal role of caring for their loved ones impacted by illness -- are the invisible backbone of healthcare systems around the world.

The hospital crisis is the result of 'years of underinvestment' in the health service - IMO...