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Medicare Part D and Insulin Affordability — The Devil Is in the Details
Among the discussions under way in the U.S. Congress regarding drug pricing and access, those related to insulin are particularly…
Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era
As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic continues to explode, hospital systems are scrambling to intensify their measures for protecting patients and health…
Harnessing Our Humanity — How Washington’s Health Care Workers Have Risen to the Pandemic Challenge
In early March 2020, Ms. B. a woman in her mid-70s, was admitted from her nursing home to Seattle Harborview’s…
Understanding how the protein tau moves between neurons yields insight into possible treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
In the fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer’s and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the tau protein is a…
Study offers new insight into the impact of ancient migrations on the European landscape
Scientists traced how the two major human migrations recorded in Holocene Europe — the northwestward movement of Anatolian farmer populations…
New CT scoring criteria for timely diagnosis, treatment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Updated CT scoring criteria that considers lobe involvement, as well as changes in CT findings (i.e., ground-glass opacity, crazy-paving pattern,…
Global nuclear medicine community shares COVID-19 strategies and experiences
In an effort to provide safer working environments for nuclear medicine professionals and their patients, clinics across five continents have…
Acupuncture May Ease Migraines
A Chinese study found that acupuncture reduced the number of headache attacks in migraine sufferers.
Understanding brain tumors in children
The causes of 40% of all cases of certain medulloblastomas — dangerous brain tumors affecting children — are hereditary. A…