Heather Hazzan / Self magazine In 2003, my life was completely shattered. My daughter, Alana, was 5½ years old when she died from complications of influenza. Until Alana died, I had no idea that the flu could kill. Like so many people, I…
Dmytro Sheremeta / iStock Influenza season started early this year, and Americans are advised to get their flu shots now, even in the parts of the United States where activity is currently low. Nearly 5,000 lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations were reported nationwide during…
American employers know that healthcare costs have become staggering. A 2024 estimate put U.S. corporate health benefits spending at roughly $1.3 trillion. American workers are feeling the pinch of... Employers Can Now Take a Harder Look at Healthcare Costs American employers know that…
Community pharmacies may be key to preventing people exposed to the rabies virus from developing the fatal neurologic disease. Spread through the bites and scratches of mammals, rabies is preventable if people get the post-exposure vaccine before clinical symptoms appear.
Community pharmacies may be key to preventing people exposed to the rabies virus from developing the fatal neurologic disease. Spread through the bites and scratches of mammals, rabies is preventable if people get the post-exposure vaccine before clinical symptoms appear.
An analysis of US enteric fever cases found that most travel-associated cases were not susceptible to the first-line antibiotic treatment, researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this week in JAMA Network Open. Enteric fever, which encompasses…
The introduction of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine RSVpreF (Abrysvo) for pregnant women and the long-acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab (Beyfortus) for newborns in 2023 offered protection for infants against the ubiquitous virus. RSV is responsible for 3.6 million hospitalizations and about…
Bob Herman is the author of Health Care Inc., an award-winning weekly newsletter about the business of health and medicine. The middlemen that oversee prescription drug spending for employers and workers will soon have to tell their clients all the…
Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger After months of public sparring, Atrium Health and the State Health Plan have reached a deal that allows state employees, retirees and their family members to see Atrium doctors next year at roughly the same…
Twice, Lela Brantley did everything she was supposed to do and still ended up homeless. She stopped using substances. She moved into a recovery center with her small children. She secured a Section 8 affordable housing voucher and got on the…
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