Public health increasingly focuses on treatment as prevention. While condoms were once integral to campaigns aimed at preventing STIs this is much less the case today.
Category: healthcare
The ‘Everything Shower’ Has Been Trending On TikTok, Here’s What It Is
An “Everything Shower” typically takes two-to-four hours to complete. You can find lots of chatter and claims about such showers by searching for the hashtag #Showertok.
Rite Aid Proposes Closing About A Quarter Of Its Stores In Bankruptcy, Report Says
Reports about the drug store chain’s potential bankruptcy filing began circulating late last month, though the company has yet to confirm the move.
CDC Panel Recommends RSV Vaccine For Some Expectant Mothers
RSV is one of the leading causes of hospitalizations among infants in the U.S., according to the CDC.
Doctors Transplant Pig Heart Into Dying Man—Only The Second Time It’s Ever Been Done
Doctors hope this new procedure could be a game changer in the organ transplant field.
Current Costs And Technology Limit Brain-Machine Interfaces
Brain-machine interfaces face significant hurdles, despite scientific advancements in the field.
Kraft Heinz Recalls Approximately 83,800 Cases Of American Cheese Slices
There have been six complaints of people choking or gagging after consuming Kraft individually-wrapped slices of American cheese.
England’s Hospitals In Crisis As Patients Wait Longer Than Ever For Care
Over the last financial year, more than 1.7 million patients waited in emergency rooms for more than 12 hours after arriving. That’s just under 8% of all ER attendances.
Nearly 500,000 People Were Wrongly Kicked Off Medicaid Due To Bizarre ‘Systems’ Issue—Many Being Children
Those dropped will be reinstated after a problem was reported late last month that resulted in families and children losing health insurance coverage.
As Drug Shortages Spike, American Businesses Will Pay The Price
More American employees than you could ever imagine will face a drug shortage that will, at some point, impact how they do their work.
