Loading the player… While vaccinations in the US and around the global community signal the potential to finally stabilize the COVID-19 pandemic, some experts are sharing concerns that not enough people are getting vaccinated, thereby jeopardizing the chances of the U.S. achieving herd immunity against the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes herd immunity as… Read More: U.S. unlikely to reach herd immunity, experts say »
News Consumer News Re-focusing on Getting Fit? Heart Experts Offer These Tips SATURDAY, April 10, 2021 — Want to get rid of all that weight you put on during the pandemic? To help out, the American Heart Association (AHA) is launching an initiative called Move More. One in four U.S. adults is sitting for longer… Read More: Re-focusing on Getting Fit? Heart Experts Offer These Tips »
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that policy experts underestimated the impact of widespread electronic health record use on clinician burnout at the time of the HITECH Act’s passage in 2009. The retrospective look examined the discussions at the AMIA’s 2009 Annual Health Policy Meeting,… Read More: Experts underestimated EHRs’ impact on burnout after HITECH Act »
Global health leaders discussed the challenges of climate change and widening inequality during the closing keynote sssion, ‘Climate Change, Social Determinants of Health: Leading Recovery and Preparing for the Future’. The speakers were Prof Jan Semenza, lead of the Health Determinants Programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Sweden, Professor Prof Sam Shah,… Read More: Healthcare experts call for action on climate change and inequality »