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Should TikTok Doctors Owe Any Duty of Care Toward Their Followers?

Bill of Health

By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

Bill of Health

When news broke last week that Pfizer-BioNTech was submitting for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) a two-dose COVID vaccine regimen for children under 5 to the U.S. million children have tested positive for COVID since the pandemic, over 3.5 million children have tested positive for COVID since the pandemic, over 3.5

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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill of Health

NYU’s Langone hospital system decided that — outside of the Emergency Room — patients would generally only be required to mask “if they have fever and cough” (query what percentage of individuals with recent COVID-19 infections did not have this specific combo of symptoms — spoiler: it’s probably high ). As the U.S.

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The Council of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Convention: Implications for Health and Patients

Bill of Health

The enormous ‘data hunger’ of medical AI may also affect medical privacy, and the opaque nature of many AI applications may put existing health practices and other patients’ rights under pressure, such as the provision of information, informed consent, and legal redress.

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Risks of dispensing ivermectin

Natalia Mazina

This month, the American Medical Association, American Pharmacist Association, and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists issued a joint release urging prescribers and pharmacists to stop ordering, prescribing, and dispensing ivermectin to prevent or treat Covid-19 outside of clinical trials.

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Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano

Kaiser Health News

From abortion to covid-19 vaccines, Newsom and DeSantis could not be further apart. DeSantis has led his state to restrict abortion and gender-affirming care and to ban covid-related mask and vaccine mandates. The Sunshine State’s covid-19 vaccine booster rate for residents age 5 and older is 12.4%.

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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

Hall Render

deal to buy national physician practice Support grows for association health plans as small employer insurance costs soar Connecticut doctors call on legislature to tackle prior authorization during this year’s session CT hospitals support student-loan forgiveness, debt-free college programs to boost healthcare workforce DC D.C.’s