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...associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital....
...“You can’t anonymise medical data . . . it’s too rich, you just can’t do it.”...
...Dr Sumit Bhagra, medical director for Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea, tells me it’s “a step in the right direction”, adding “20 per cent of people in any population have a yearning for change but...
...Walmart aims to build more than 75 medical centres in the US by the end of 2024. Dollar General is testing mobile health clinics outside some of its stores....
...Beijing informed the city’s state-run community clinics on Monday that they would receive a limited supply of Paxlovid for elderly patients....
...Relatives in Shanghai rushed to send antiviral drugs by post after the local hospital and clinic ran out of supplies, but when the medicine arrived, Wu’s mother had already tested negative....
...This was due to insufficient “last mile” cooling facilities and a lack of appropriate storage units at clinics in parts of Africa, Asia and South America....
...However, antiviral drugs developed by Pfizer and Merck are beginning to be provided by health clinics following their recent authorisation by the FDA....
...Sami Inkinen, chief executive of Virta Health, a telemedicine clinic focused on type 2 diabetes, said simply giving people more information was not enough....
...“For instance, in the United Kingdom, the NHS shut down most non-essential clinics because of Covid, and sexual wellness clinics which hand out condoms were also closed.”...
...Research from the Mayo Clinic in the US and Qatar showed a better efficacy rate for the Moderna vaccine, although the results are complicated by the fact the Pfizer shot has often been distributed earlier...
...Clinics will have to install expensive infusion equipment to give patients their monthly dose....
...Dylan Loh in Singapore and Gwen Robinson in Bangkok also contributed to this story A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 2 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...In a further boost for the BioNTech/Pfizer shot, the companies said this week that their vaccine no longer needs to be kept at ultra-low temperatures, making it easier to distribute to doctors’ clinics,...
...Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine no longer needs to be kept at ultra-low temperatures colder than the Antarctic winter, according to new results that will allow distribution to be dramatically expanded to doctors’ clinics...
...Plans to use hospitals and clinics to hand out vaccines were also abandoned after an initially chaotic rollout to medical personnel....
...This initial rollout will prioritise everyone aged 50 or over, health and social care workers and people with underlying medical conditions that put them at higher risk of serious Covid-19 symptoms....
...Routine boosters for other diseases are also put off for multiple reasons — holidays, clinic closures, delayed deliveries, forgetfulness — without efficacy being a worry....
...Mass vaccination clinics, such as the UK’s repurposed Nightingale hospitals, could help distribution in cities....
...Once it arrives in clinics, the vaccine — which can be kept at approximately minus 75C for up to six months — can survive in a normal fridge for up to 5 days....
...The largest is likely to be GP clinics around the UK, which will offer doses to the roughly 17m “high risk” people who usually receive an annual flu vaccination from their local practice....
...David Knopman, a Mayo Clinic neurologist who worked on one of the trials, called for a third trial focused on the higher dose, in a medical journal earlier this week....
...“There are unknown risks and late-stage failures so for the small companies, an opportunity to have a vaccine move forward with a lot of subsidies, with a quick path into the clinic, is huge.”...
...Egalitarian cross-subsidising means private clinics will probably pay more. That would get nearer to recouping at least some of Gilead’s 2020 $1bn-plus R&D spend on the drug....
..., Cleveland Clinic and Ascension Google’s Nest bought smart home start-ups with products that can help track sleep and lung function Google Search is trying to fight medical misinformation, pushing sites...
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