Patrick Geraghty, president and chief executive officer of GuideWell Inc. and Florida Blue, will … More
Pat Geraghty, the longtime top executive of one of the nation’s fastest-growing health insurance companies in Florida Blue, will retire at the end of this year, the company said.
Geraghty, who…
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These are the key events on day 1,132 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
These are the key events from Monday, March 31:
Fighting
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United States President Donald Trump has said his long-awaited reciprocal tariffs will be lower than what other countries charge as uncertainty over his biggest trade announcement yet continues to roil global stocks.
Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump said the tariffs he is preparing to announce on Wednesday will be “nicer” than the trade policies of US trading partners.
“We are going to be very nice by comparison to what they were. The numbers will be lower than what they…
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The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it will undertake a “comprehensive review” of federal contracts with Harvard University, as part of its crackdown on anti-Semitism in the United States.
But critics fear the prestigious Ivy League university is the latest target in a purge of pro-Palestinian voices.
On Monday, three departments under Trump’s control — the Department of Education, the General Services Administration and the Health and Human Services Department…
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A new study from investigators at Mass General Brigham shows that clues about hypertension may be buried in electronic health records (EHR). Using natural language processing, a form of artificial intelligence, researchers identified patients who had a heart ultrasound indicating thickening of the heart muscle, a condition frequently caused by hypertension. When physicians were notified of these results, they were almost four times as likely to diagnose hypertension and prescribe medications…
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A study from the University of Ottawa’s Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit (HEPRU) has confirmed that the limits for human thermoregulation — our ability to maintain a stable body temperature in extreme heat — are lower than previously thought.
This research, led by Dr. Robert D. Meade, former Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Dr. Glen Kenny, Director of HEPRU and professor of physiology at uOttawa’s Faculty of Health Sciences, highlights the urgent need to address the impacts…
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Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) is a condition that affects joints after an injury. Current treatments focus on relieving symptoms but do not prevent or stop the progression of the condition. Although emerging therapies have shown promise in preclinical studies, a major obstacle is delivering these therapies effectively into the joint, a highly dynamic environment subjected to constant mechanical stress. Researchers at Mass General Brigham have created a new hydrogel to improve drug…
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A University of Arizona Health Sciences-led study found that patients are more likely to get colonoscopies following abnormal stool test results if patient navigators assist them through the process.
The paper, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that 55% of patients who were assigned to a patient navigator received follow-up colonoscopies within a year compared with 42.5% of patients who received usual care without a navigator.
“It is important for patients with abnormal…
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Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Monday a new transitional government would aim for consensus in rebuilding the war-torn country but acknowledged it would be unable to satisfy everyone.
The transitional 23-member cabinet — without a prime minister — was announced Saturday, more than three months after Sharaa’s Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led an offensive that toppled longtime president Bashar al-Assad.
Sharaa said the new government’s goal was rebuilding the…
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Medical sources have reported that the bodies of paramedics recovered from the Tel Al-Sultan area in Rafah, southern Gaza, were found bound, indicating they had been detained before being executed.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) earlier confirmed the recovery of 14 bodies, including eight of its paramedics, five rescue workers, and a staff member of a UN agency. The group had been missing for eight days after Israeli forces besieged them.
Medical…
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