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A healthy diet remains an important part of boosting your immunity. While there are no specific foods that can protect you from the COVID 19 pandemic, eating a nutritious diet can boost your immune system and fight symptoms. Let me remind you that eating healthy isn’t about avoiding strict eating restrictions, staying unrealistically thin, or […]
Federal government efforts to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions end their first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half of the country’s hospitals. In its tenth annual penalty loop, Medicare is reducing payments to 2,499 hospitals, or 47% of all facilities. The average penalty is a 0.64% cut in payment for each Medicare […]
Robin Foster, HealthDay reporter FRIDAY, October 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) – Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. said Friday it will apply for state approval for the emergency use of its new antiviral pill, molnupiravir, after a clinical study showed the drug’s risk hospital stay halved or death when administered to high-risk patients shortly after infection […]