A free national resource is helping aged care providers ensure they are optimally prepared for fires, floods and other emergencies,
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Explaining the difference between palliative care and euthanasia
There is a continuing need to increase public awareness of palliative care and clarify misperceptions about its differentiation from voluntary
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Only 25% of older Australians have an advance care plan. Coronavirus makes it even more important
Older adults and those with chronic health conditions share an increased risk of experiencing severe symptoms if they contract COVID-19.
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Quality of care at rural hospitals may not differ as much as reported, study suggests
Critical access hospitals (CAHs) provide care to Americans living in remote rural areas. As important health care access points, these
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Lung screening bus brings high-tech health care directly to patients
A mobile platform for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) can be developed with limited financial risk and
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AIDS report: Kids are lagging and COVID-19 is harming care
New numbers on the global AIDS epidemic show some big successes, such as fewer deaths and new infections. But there
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Getting safe emergency care during COVID-19
Find out when to get emergency care for non-COVID-19 symptoms and COVID-19 symptoms, and learn what emergency rooms are doing
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Research shows patients and clinicians rated telemedicine care positively during COVID-19 pandemic
After surveying almost 800 gastroenterology and hepatology patients and their physicians at Penn Medicine, 67% of both viewed their video
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Considerable national costs attributed to cancer medical care
(HealthDay)—The national costs attributed to medical care for cancer are considerable and are projected to increase 34 percent by 2030
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For stressed-out black Americans, mental health care often hard to come by
(HealthDay)—If there is one thing that recent police brutality protests have demonstrated, it is that life for black people in
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