Articles By Robert Calandra
- More than 50% of older adults hospitalized with heart failure go home with double the number of medications. Polypharmacy can cause adverse interactions.
- How many of the 200 guests and White House staff who attended the SCOTUS introduction were infected with the virus that causes COVID-19?
- Health care was one of many topics that the two candidates for vice-president did not agree on.
- More people in the White House are testing positive for COVID-19 as people wonder where the super spreader event really was.
- Some saw that telehealth could impact healthcare delivery in a meaningful way. When the pandemic hit, they were ready.
- The FDA is requiring a “boxed warning” label for benzodiazepine medicines, such as the prescription medications Ativan, Xanax, Klonopin, Librium and Valium.
- If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is overturned, almost every American will feel the effect in some way, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
- Telehealth is having a moment that has been decades in the making.
- From asymptomatic children to a report from the states, here is today's round-up of news related to COVID-19 and children.
- As people with high blood pressure have lost their health insurance, they have stopped taking their medications. The number of those who have hypertension and don't know it has increased as well.
- If you've had a stroke, you may find it hard to get out to your rehab appointments. If so, check to see if your hospital system provides tele-rehab services, so you can stay home while you recover.
- We're keeping our cars longer, sometimes handing them down to our teens, but is it safe for them to be driving old cars?