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'Every day is a good day’: a meaningful patient-doctor relationship that changed everything.
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Patient portals, online accounts that let patients see their medical records, will be important for COVID-19 vaccine appointment alerts and signups, but 2 in 5 older adults haven’t set up an account.
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Telehealth for mental health care, also called telepsychiatry, got an emergency start due to COVID-19 but many patients may prefer it after the pandemic.
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An endocrinologist specializing in thyroid cancer and creator of the Hemoglobin A1c test for diabetes reflects on his career, offering advice for aspiring researchers.
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Researchers have created an experimental device that, instead of inhibiting inflammatory proteins in COVID-19 patients, changes the phenotype of circulating white blood cells, helping wean two patients off ECMO.
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What about the kidneys make them a hotspot for COVID-19’s cytokine storm? A research team says it’s the presence of a protein found on specialized renal transport cells.
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Innovative device ensures doctors obtain adequate fluid samples from the eye, helping with diagnosis and individualized treatment plans for patients.
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Use these psychologist-approved strategies to fix and avoid the remote work burnout.
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A telephone visit can sometimes work just as well as an online doctor visit.
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Telehealth visits by older adults increased dramatically during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet some adults still have concerns about telemedicine and some face barriers.
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Convalescent plasma has shown promise against COVID-19, but new research will try to prove if it really works.
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Telemedicine for addiction treatment used to be uncommon. But the changes in health policy from COVID-19 could change that forever.
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As more hospitals and medical centers look to share patient data and samples with industry, a new ethical framework for doing it has developed.
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If you're prescribed hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy, here's what you need to know in advance.
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We may be on the horizon of a revolution in understanding rare diseases and developing new treatments, but for those living with rare diseases, raising awareness now about these little known conditions is key.