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Structural racism in medicine: An in-depth look at ways to promote meaningful change

Jun 15, 2021

Deeply engrained structural racism within the healthcare system has harmed historically marginalized people for centuries. Recognizing their role in this, the largest medical association in the United States pledges to help eradicate inequity in medicine. We asked four experts for their opinion on how to do this in a meaningful way. The American Medical Association (AMA), one of the largest and most influential medical associations in...

The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting

Jun 11, 2021

During a pandemic, no one’s health is fully in their own hands. No field should understand that more deeply than public health, a discipline distinct from medicine. Whereas doctors and nurses treat sick individuals in front of them, public-health practitioners work to prevent sickness in entire populations. They are expected to think big. They know that infectious diseases are always collective problems because they are...

The Recovery Room: News beyond the pandemic

Jun 10, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has dominated the headlines and our daily lives for more than a year. Medical News Today has covered this fast-moving, complex story with live updates on the latest news, interviews with experts, and an ongoing investigation into the deep racial disparities that COVID-19 has helped unmask. However, this has not stopped us from publishing hundreds of fascinating stories on a myriad of other topic. The...

American expats push for access to coronavirus vaccines, raising questions about international equity

Jun 08, 2021

The United States is one of the small number of countries where coronavirus vaccinations are widely available. “All over the world people are desperate to get a shot that every American can get at their neighborhood drugstore,” President Biden said on Wednesday. But one group of Americans feels left behind: expatriates....

How Health Care In The U.S. May Change After COVID: An Optimist's Outlook

May 30, 2021

With more than one-third of U.S. adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, there's growing optimism on many fronts. A majority of states have either lifted health-related restrictions or have announced target dates for doing so. Already, many clinicians and health policy experts are thinking about what the post-pandemic world will look like. COVID-19 demonstrated that even in a behemoth industry like health...

U.S. reverses stance, backs giving poorer countries access to COVID vaccine patents

May 27, 2021

President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies. Biden voiced his support for a waiver - a sharp reversal of the previous U.S. position - in remarks to reporters, followed swiftly by a statement from his top trade negotiator, Katherine Tai,...

Almost no nursing home in America was safe from COVID-19, federal study finds

May 27, 2021

'In many cases there were real lapses of oversight,' says a director on GAO's health care team Months after it became painfully clear that older people were the most likely to die from COVID-19, poor infection control resulted in multiple, sustained outbreaks at the overwhelming majority of the nation’s nursing homes, according to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Of the 50 states and District of...

COVID-19: More evidence that monoclonal antibodies reduce risk of death

May 25, 2021

Antibodies fight infection, and the body produces them naturally, but it is possible to introduce antibodies into the body artificially . A new study suggests that the monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab may effectively reduce the chance of hospitalization and death in people with a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Use of bamlanivimab treatment was associated with a decrease in hospitalization and mortality, especially among adults over...

COVID and Long Term Care: Proposed legislation would set standards of care for seniors in long-term care facilities

May 25, 2021

Mike Perry will not engage in the blame game over COVID-19 deaths among residents in America's nursing homes. Nor will many of his colleagues working in the industry exacerbated by the virus. "There were a lot of dynamics going on," said Perry, CEO of the WellBridge Group based in Brighton that operates 26 long-term care facilities in Michigan including Rochester Hills, Clarkston and South Lyon. - Advertisement - ...

Health depends on the strength of the doctor/technology relationship

May 18, 2021

For the past few decades, technology has been gradually revolutionizing health care for patients. It may be having less-positive effects for physicians, some of whom eye it as a threat to doctoring. As the world simultaneously looks to technology to help us navigate the pandemic and the medical community to get us out of it, the need for both to work together and amplify grows clearer with each day. The emergence of Covid-19 underscored...

Distressed Hospitals Can Succeed: Initiating Financial Stability

May 13, 2021

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that for some hospitals and health systems, the effects have been both material and negative. While it was often an accelerator—not the cause—of declining metrics, the economic blow from the pandemic will prove tough to overcome. For many leaders, the question that keeps them up at night is: “How can our organization continue to care for our communities?”...

Asian American health workers fight virus and racist attacks

May 11, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Medical student Natty Jumreornvong has a vaccine and protective gear to shield her from the coronavirus. But she couldn’t avoid exposure to the anti-Asian bigotry that pulsed to the surface after the pathogen was first identified in China. Psychiatry patients have called her by a racist slur for the disease, she said. A bystander spat at the Thai-born student to “go back to China” as she...

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