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October 2020 Yahoo; Ultra-processed foods are designed to be cheap, convenient, and keep us energized and full until the next meal. But increasingly, health experts are discovering these foods aren’t great at keeping us satisfied, or even alive, long-term. A new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control suggests that …

October 2020 CNN; When people of color have found themselves marginalized and shunned from mainstream spaces, they’ve historically built rooms for themselves. That initiative and resistance is what some people of color — Black, Latinx, Asian American and Native American — have taken up by creating digital spaces and organizations …

October 2020 Medicalnewstoday; The findings even hold true for individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The research, which appears in the journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society, contributes to dispelling some of the myths surrounding the use of face masks in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. FACE …

September 2020 EHRIntelligence; Social informatics could be the answer to some of healthcare’s social determinants of health (SDOH) data problems, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).   The rise of value-based reimbursement has led the medical field to increasingly recognize the importance of meeting not …

September 2020 Yahoo; The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told governors last week to prepare for the “large-scale” distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by NBC News. In the Aug. 27 letter, the director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said …

August 2020 CNN; A 33-year-old man living in Hong Kong had Covid-19 twice this year, according to preliminary research out of China.  The pre-print study — which the University of Hong Kong said on Monday has been accepted to publish in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases — found that the man’s second case of …

August 2020 BusinessInsider; Remdesivir is as close to famous as an antiviral treatment gets. The drug is the only one that has gotten emergency authorization from the FDA as a coronavirus treatment.  Gilead Sciences began developing remdesivir as a treatment for Ebola in 2009, and though it was never approved …

Russia announced on Saturday, August 15, 2020, that it has produced the first batch of its newly approved vaccine, Sputnik V, hours after the health ministry reported the start of its production. The disclosure was made in a statement by the Russian Health Ministry and quoted by Russian news agencies. This is coming some …

August 2020 W&M; William & Mary led a collaboration with universities throughout Virginia to develop a virtual tool to support the health and wellness of students, faculty and staff this fall. W&M’s tool, called the Daily Health Check, will be part of its Healthy Together module available via the university’s mobile application …

July 2020 the Star :You fall sick and suspect pneumonia. You have a Sh500,000 health insurance cover. You are confident that should be a simple matter. You just need to check in to any contracted hospital to sort it. Not so fast.  Robert Kariuki, 36, was not even allowed to …