The flu is not just a cold. It’s symptoms can really knock you for a loop. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty Well, this November really flu by, for sure. The flu season is off to a particularly early start this year with seemingly more influenza activity last month than any other November since 2009, the year… Read More: Flu Is Now Widespread In 10 States, Including California, Texas,… »
A young Texas girl is fighting for her life after she was infected with a deadly brain-eating amoeba following a day spent swimming in a river, according to reports. Lily Mae Avant, 10, went swimming over Labor Day weekend in the Brazos River near Waco — where doctors believe she contracted the often-fatal Naegleria fowleri… Read More: Texas girl contracts brain-eating amoeba during swim in river »
David McSwain, Julie Hall-Barrow, will speak at HIMSS19. The use of telehealth is growing as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continues to expand reimbursement for its use. But there are still some under-recognized challenges to telehealth adoption, according to Dr. David McSwain, chief medical information officer of the Medical University of South Carolina.… Read More: How providers in South Carolina and Texas are overcoming telehealth… »
The HealthCare.gov 2019 web site home page as seen in Oct. 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) A federal judge in Texas has issued a ruling declaring that Obamacare is unconstitutional, creating an not only uncertainty about health care coverage for millions of Americans, but also a likely battle in the U.S. Supreme Court. Friday’s decision… Read More: Federal judge in Texas strikes down Obamacare as unconstitutional »