In your local pharmacy you can find many shelves filled with products that claim to treat the symptoms of the common cold. They don’t.
Category: healthcare
Best Buy’s Latest Health Business: Glucose Monitoring Systems
Best Buy will soon begin carrying continuous glucose monitoring devices that require a prescription, opening the door to broader future healthcare product offerings.
Uber And UnitedHealth’s Optum Partner On App Payment For Seniors’ Ancillary Benefits
Uber Health is partnering with UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business to make paying for ancillary benefits like ride share and product delivery easier for seniors via the Uber app.
FDA: Blood Pressure Medication Recall After Oxycodone Found
KVK-Tech, Inc. found something that didn’t belong among the betaxolol tablets that the company was packaging to be delivered around the country.
Is The ‘Mouth-Taping’ TikTok Trend A Real Sleep Hack? Here Are Caveats
Some TikTokers have been advocating taping your mouth shut while sleeping so that you are forced to breathe through your nose rather than your mouth.
Nobel Prize Goes To Scientists Who Paved The Way For Covid-19 Vaccine
Drs. Kariko and Weissman’s decades of perseverance paved the way for the technology needed to combat and pull the world out of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Haitian-American Woman Dr. Claudine Gay Is New Harvard President
She was inaugurated to lead the university with the largest endowment in the world, an endowment that is more than twice the GDP of her parents’ homeland of Haiti
The Needle’s Edge: Autonomous Robotic Surgery And Its Implications For Medicine
Autonomous medical robots may be conducting full medical operations sooner rather than later.
It’s Imperative That Public Health Messaging Improves To Counter Vaccine Misinformation
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, not only has there been an abundance of misinformation about vaccines, public health officials have committed missteps in messaging.
Long Covid Linked To Greater Risk For Developing Autoimmune And Autoinflammatory Disorders, Study Shows
Around 23 million people in the U.S. suffer from long Covid symptoms.
