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In the past few years, the phrase “HIPAA violation” has been thrown around a lot, often incorrectly. People have cited the law, which protects patient health information, as a reason they can’t be asked if they’re vaccinated or get a doctor’s note for an employer. But asking someone if they’re vaccinated isn’t actually a HIPAA violation. That’s a fine and not-illegal thing for one non-doctor to ask another non-doctor. What is a HIPAA violation is what U. Phillip… Source link

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer review. Alzheimer’s-like changes seen in COVID-19 patients’ brains People who die of severe COVID-19 have brain abnormalities that resemble changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease – accumulation of a protein called tau inside brain cells, and abnormal amounts of the protein beta-amyloid that… Source link

Walmart (WMT) is launching the first-ever and only private brand analog insulin, offering a steep discount on the prescription used to control high blood sugar in millions of diabetes patients. The new brand, ReliOn NovoLog, includes analog insulin vials retailing for $72.88 and a FlexPen selling for $85.88, translating to savings of 58% and 75%, respectively, on the current cash price of branded insulin products when not using insurance. According to Walmart, that works out to be savings of… Source link

PARIS, May 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In the age of advanced technology and improved healthcare, there is always a solution to meet an unresolved issue, one of them being fake medication. The number of counterfeit medicines and injections is rising. To address this issue, one of the top app developers in India Hyperlink InfoSystem has developed a mobile app for Zydus Cadila which is named as Zydus Verify. Zydus Cadila is an India-based well-renowned pharmaceutical company that has launched a… Source link

It has taken three years to develop, and has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions, as well as millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, in all shades and tones. Source link

After 13 years, Google is coming back for patient health records. The tech giant has launched an early user feedback program aimed at exploring how patients might want to see, organize, and share their own medical record data. The work could inform the creation of a consumer-facing medical records tool along the lines of Apple’s Health Records app. It also follows an early attempt by Google — later panned by medical experts — at creating a new version of the electronic medical record… Source link

Doctors are warning about a potential life-threatening issue related to Apple’s iPhone 12. A powerful new magnet in the smartphone device can interfere with pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators among patients with serious heart issues, according to research by specialists in cardiac electrophysiology. Dr Gurjit Singh of Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute in the US is an expert in cardiac devices which contain switches that respond to an external magnet to change how the device… Source link

An internal medicine doctor in San Antonio, Texas, is gaining national attention after revealing that he uses the antiparasitic medication ivermectin — which is commonly used to treat head lice — on his COVID-19 patients. Dr. Hoan Pho tells Yahoo Life that he has been “very aggressively” treating his patients who develop COVID-19 for months with a series of medications, including antibiotics, statins, aspirin, prednisone and high doses of vitamins C and D. But he added ivermectin to… Source link

The U.S. is racing to administer COVID-19 vaccines across the country to frontline workers and the elderly, but it’s coming up against mistrust — particularly among people of color. According to one New York City doctor, it’s vital to address concerns about systemic racism as a matter of public health — and not just for people of color, but for everyone. “The individuals that are most concerned that I found in my clinic are my African-American and Latino patients,” Dr. Stella Safo,… Source link

Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about Covid-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency department in February. But there’s one question she still can’t answer: What makes some patients so much sicker than others? Advancing age and underlying medical problems explain only part of the phenomenon, said Ranney, who has seen patients of similar age, background and health status follow wildly different trajectories. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak “Why does one… Source link