CDC investigating EzriCare eye drops after reports of dozens of infections, one death in 11 states
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers and consumers to stop using EzriCare Artificial Tears as it conducts an investigation into at least 55…
Vaccination and voting patterns in the United States: analysis of COVID-19 and flu surveys from 2010 to 2022
Introduction Politicization of attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination is suggested to have contributed to geographical heterogeneities in vaccination coverage in the United States. 1 Sharfstein JM, Callaghan T, Carpiano RM, et…
States to lift COVID-19 rules in healthcare settings
California, Washington and Oregon plan to end healthcare worker COVID-19 requirements, effective April 3. State officials in California announced the changes, which include an end to its healthcare worker vaccination…
States extend scope of regulatory oversight of health and fitness treatment entities
The proliferation of non-public investor-backed administration of health and fitness care methods continues to draw scrutiny from regulators into the impact on patient treatment, wellbeing care costs, and accessibility to solutions. Condition…
COVID-19 SeroHub, an online repository of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence studies in the United States
We developed a minimum set of data elements to extract from each study reflecting typically available data fields. As described above, these data are all available at the SeroHub data…
Cost effectiveness analysis of single and sequential testing strategies for tuberculosis infection in adults living with HIV in the United States
Model design A decision-analytic model, including a short-term decision tree model followed by a 20-year Markov model, was constructed to simulate the long-term TB-related outcomes of a hypothetical cohort of…
States are striking out on single payer | Opinion
By Sally C. Pipes The progressive crusade for single-payer health care brings to mind the classic definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over again and expecting…