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Better Health Care Tests, Faster

Healthcare IT Today

Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. Normally the doctor looks at a lot of clinical inputs, such as a blood culture, and evaluates the combined meaning of blood cell count, lactate levels, protein markers, and more—12 to 14 different variables.

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How Misinformation in Health Care Can Lead to Being “Dead Wrong” — KFF and Dr. G Connect the Dots

Health Populi

health citizens of the vaccine fast-tracked to address the worst effects of the coronavirus. “Misinformation” has taken on many names: infodemic ( coined by the World Health Organization in August 2020 ), fake news, conspiracy theories, and malinformation among the monikers.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

While public health is still a public good and must be addressed, funded, and supported as such by the public sector, the growing role of private sector innovation will help us better prevent and manage Disease X , what the World Health Organization calls and warns as the next pandemic to come.

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Leave Ivermectin to Horses and Parasites

Drug & Device Law

One was that “judges are not doctors” and that “[j]ust as [judges] cannot legislate from the bench, [they] cannot practice medicine from the bench.” Texas Health Huguley, Inc. Christiana Care Health Servs., Judges might not be doctors, but in the case of ivermectin the courts have gotten it right. Jones , 637 S.W.3d

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