Across the country, state medical licensing boards and medical associations are struggling with how to respond to physicians who make scientifically baseless public statements about COVID-19.
If allowed to remain in force, the law would be the most dramatic restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the high court’s landmark Roe v Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973.
A new federal report stresses the need for Congress to address a looming shortfall that could begin to trim Medicare payments to hospitals within a few years.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiomyopathy patients has been laid bare in a UK analysis that shows they are more likely to be hospitalised and to experience deteriorating health as a consequence of the impact of the pandemic on care.
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