Tag: Health

Mask up: Biden administration to distribute 25M masks across the country

Naomi Lim · February 24, 2021 5:01 pm

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Dr. Terry Rabinowitz, back to camera, talks with nurse Leslie Orelup at Helen Porter Nursing Home on in Burlington, Vt. New health insurance regulations in Vermont are giving a boost to telemedicine, the system that enables health care providers to offer consult with patients without being in the same room. Telemedicine isnât new, but the new regulations make it easier for physicians to be reimbursed for services performed by two-way video hookups. Fletcher Allen Telemedicine director Dr. Terry Rabinowitz says popular specialties are psychiatry and dermatology. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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Arizona may become the model state for telehealth access

Courtney M. Joslin, Shoshana Weissmann · February 24, 2021 3:30 pm

FDA says Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine is safe and effective

Cassidy Morrison · February 24, 2021 2:23 pm

Indiana Senate passes bill to stop Holcomb from extending health emergency without approval

Washington Examiner · February 24, 2021 2:00 pm

An art teacher displays her student's artwork at a February 23, 2021, car rally against the school reopening plan in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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‘Keep the schools shut’: Teachers rage against the machine

Timothy P. Carney · February 24, 2021 4:20 am

Mother of slain officer Brian Sicknick still doesn’t have answers about his death

Zach Halaschak · February 23, 2021 7:16 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Washington.

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The coronavirus vaccine is our ticket back to normalcy. Don’t let the ‘experts’ tell you otherwise

Kaylee McGhee White · February 22, 2021 5:12 pm

Senseless restrictions keep therapists from helping people in DC and many other states

Elizabeth Brokamp · February 20, 2021 5:00 am

Two Florida women tried to get COVID-19 vaccine dressed as ‘grannies’

Zach Halaschak · February 19, 2021 5:21 pm

Philadelphia Medical Reserve Corps volunteer Emma Ewing, a sophomore at Temple University, directs cars at the city's coronavirus testing site next to Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2020. The site, which opened Friday afternoon, is the first city-run drive-through location where people can be swabbed to determine if they have the coronavirus. At the time of opening, it was only for people with symptoms who are over 50 and healthcare workers with symptoms.

Johns Hopkins doctor says US will have herd immunity by April because more than half have already been infected

David Hogberg · February 19, 2021 5:01 pm

Bill Gates, chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends the "Africa Leadership Meeting - Investing in Health Outcomes" held at a hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019.

Bill Gates: from computer programmer to know-it-all

Joseph Simonson · February 18, 2021 9:08 pm

Nursing homes should have been protected from COVID-19. Instead, they were given a death order

Rep. Buddy Carter · February 18, 2021 5:00 am