How rampant abuse by fintech fueled covid relief fraud
“The faster the better,” the workers were told at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the little-known financial technology...
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New Ultrasound Study Shows Increased Liver Stiffness 10 Months After COVID-19 Infection
New research with ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) suggests that liver stiffness, a marker of fibrosis, increases in patients with...
COVID in California: BQ and XBB subvariants have ‘alarming antibody evasion’
As signs grow of the expected winter COVID-19 surge, health experts in the Bay Area offer new advice on how...
Are medical masks non-inferior to N95 respirators to prevent COVID-19 in health care workers providing routine care?
In a recent article published in ACP Journals, researchers determined whether medical (surgical) masks were non-inferior to N95 respirators in...
Long Covid costs patients an average $9,000 a year in medical expenses
The Covid-19 unit at United Memorial Medical Center in north Houston.Carolyn Cole | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesLong Covid...
Democrats must think differently to win rural votes
As post-mortems of the midterm elections continue, several identify signs that Democrats can build a more substantial base in rural...
How COVID Changed the Way Americans Think about Economic Inequality
“Even among those who were the most privileged, they, too, had to stay home and follow certain rules,” says Nicole...
Telehealth Use in Ophthalmology Modest During COVID-19 Pandemic
Telehealth use increased over the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic before stabilizing, with the lowest rate of use...
How COVID-19 transformed the jobs market
While it may seem a distant memory now, the COVID-19 pandemic initially devastated the U.S. economy. It also exposed and...
Illinois Coronavirus Updates: COVID Cases Start to Rise, Best Time to Test
Illinois' COVID metrics are on the rise following the Thanksgiving holiday, along with spikes in several other viruses, so what...