You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. and around the… Read More: Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and… »
Teachers are NOT more at risk of catching Covid: ONS study finds similar rates of Covid antibodies in school staff and the general public Office for National Statistics study looked at 120 schools in England in December About 14.6% of primary and 15.7% of secondary staff tested positive for proteins This was lower than 18.2%… Read More: Teachers are NOT more at risk of catching Covid, ONS… »
There are no real differences between tenofovir formulations – tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) – in terms of viral suppression and bone and renal safety, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in AIDS. The newer formulation of the drug (TAF) only showed superiority in terms of efficacy, and then to a modest… Read More: Meta-analysis finds no real difference in safety and effectiveness between… »
Dive Brief: A new survey by Doximity concludes that physician incomes rose only 1.5% this year compared to 2019, a steep drop compared to the steady 4% average increases recorded in recent years. The 2020 pay bump is also nearly a full point below the U.S. inflation rate, although they are still compensated handsomely. The survey… Read More: Physician pay growth pushed down amid COVID-19. Women bear the… »