Category: healthcare

‘Dangerous, Discredited’ LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy Costs U.S. More Than $9 Billion Each Year, Study Finds

“Although conversion therapy has been demonstrated to be ineffective, and often harmful, it is still being used in 2022,” wrote Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a medical director at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Four Ideas To Improve Hospital Work Environments To Help Combat America’s Nursing Crisis

Hospital design experts Teri Oelrich and Bryan Langlands explore ways to improve the efficiency and experience for nurses in hospital settings.

Covid-19 Damage To The Male Reproductive Tract

Animal studies in monkeys and hamsters show that Covid-19 can inflict serious damage to the male reproductive organs. Damage includes low sperm count, shrunken testicles, erectile dysfunction, and decreased testosterone levels. Preliminary evidence su…

Even Mild Covid Can Cause Brain Damage, Study Suggests

Brain scans revealed a “significant, deleterious impact” associated with Covid-19, including an overall reduction in brain size, damage in regions linked to smell and greater cognitive decline compared to people who had not been infected.

A Plan For Covid-19 The Next Normal: Part 1 – A Roadmap

Getting to and Sustaining the Next Normal: A Roadmap for Living with COVID is a comprehensive blueprint written by a who’s who of health, scientific, and policy experts to set us on the path to the “next normal” with Covid-19, lest we develop a collect…

Pfizer’s CEO Reveals Negotiations With The Trump White House And How The Vaccine Was Priced

In an exclusive excerpt from Moonshoot, Dr. Albert Albert Bourla recalls the fraught diplomacy with Jared Kushner to distribute the Covid-19 shot at warp speed to America first—and then the rest of the world.

Former Livongo Team Launches A New Startup To Improve Rural Healthcare

Homeward will provide mobile services and technologies designed for low bandwidth internet to penetrate into rural markets.

More Than 6 Million People Have Now Died With Covid

Estimates based on overall mortality data suggest the real number of Covid-19 deaths could be many times higher than official figures state.

Singapore Billionaire Peter Lim Eyes Investment In Spanish Fertility Firm IVI-RMA Amid Buyout Bids

Billionaire Peter Lim—the controlling shareholder of Singapore’s Thomson Medical Group—is said to be keen to invest in Spanish fertility firm IVI-RMA amid booming demand for reproductive medicine across the Asia Pacific region.

“No Weekend Surgery”Dooming Many Awaiting Life-Saving Transplants: Report

Large numbers of Americans awaiting life-saving organ transplants are dying because many transplant centers don’t do surgery on the weekend. The overall rejection rate for available kidneys could be slashed…by measures such as ensuring centers perfor…