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Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why. I n a speech earlier this year, former President Trump was mocking President Biden’s ability to walk through ...
Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
WEBFeb 2, 2021 · The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of vaccine. Moderna went with a much larger dose of vaccine ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
WEBNov 13, 2023 · The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996. “Across ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
WEBAug 4, 2021 · A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
A national patient ID is essential for patient safety - STAT
WEBJun 22, 2022 · Health care has spent the better part of 20 years investing in an interoperable, value-based, patient-centric ecosystem. A national strategy for patient identification is essential for connecting ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
WEBJul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
WEBDec 28, 2023 · A group of over 200 physicians, public health experts, industry representatives, regulatory officials, and patient advocates made the call in a supermajority vote: Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Under new rules, patients can now access all their health ... - STAT
WEBOct 6, 2022 · The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back. Under ...
STAT Biotech: Market-moving coverage of new drug development
WEBBiotech news roundup: Inside the discoveries, personalities, and deals driving drug development in general and biomedical engineering in particular. You’ll find coverage of biotech companies ...