ESSEX, Vermont (WCAX) – A wave of Vermonters in psychiatric crisis await help in emergency rooms. Mental health officials say a new facility in Essex due to open in a few months will reduce the backlog and relieve pressure on state resources. Journalist Christina Guessferd got an exclusive tour of the $25 million project and …
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JTo read the medical literature, you might think that AI is taking over medicine. It can detect cancers in images earlier, find heart problems invisible to cardiologists, and predict organ dysfunction hours before it becomes dangerous for hospital patients. But most AI models described in reviews — and touted in press releases — are never …
dr. Biljana Simikic Recently, a team of researchers, including from the University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester, published a study which found that the attitude of many physicians towards patients with disabilities is a significant barrier to care. In the focus groups, nearly all participating physicians said they had little or no training on …
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This spring, Chevron workers testified that the company revoked medical coverage for hundreds of United Steelworkers Local 5 members at the refinery in Richmond, Calif., during a strike that ultimately lasted two months. . Thousands of Stanford Health Care nurses were told in April that they would lose their health insurance if they did not …
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