A study by University of Michigan researchers published in Health Affairs this month found that direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits for acute respiratory infections were linked to more downstream visits. The researchers found that patients with initial direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits were more likely to obtain follow-up care within seven days than those who had sought in-person visits.… Read More »
Bills are being introduced in state capitals to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, an addition to the Constitution that would explicitly protect women’s rights and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, according to proponents. It was introduced to Congress in 1923, but the crusade didn’t gain real traction until the women’s movement took hold… Read More »
Carestream Health is selling its healthcare information systems line of imaging IT solutions to Philips. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company has reached an agreement, announced earlier today, to sell its enterprise imaging platform to the Netherlands-based company. Carestream will retain its medical imaging, dental and industrial films, non-destructive testing, and precision coating businesses, which are not… Read More »
There was a lot of news this week about a study, published in the medical journal BMJ, that looked at how diet affects heart health. The results were unexpected because they challenged the conventional thinking on saturated fats. And the data were very old, from the late 1960s and early 1970s. This has led many… Read More »