Women’s health-focused startup Alpha Medical launches diabetes care program
Alpha Medical, a virtual primary care startup focused on women’s health, is expanding into the diabetes management space with new offerings for treating and screening for prediabetes and Type...
Study: Adolescents Accounted for Larger Share of Suicides in 2020
New research offers another warning about the COVID-19 pandemic’s mental health toll on U.S. youth, with findings from a sample of states showing an increase in the proportion of suicides that...
A vaccine for omicron? Here’s what could be next for COVID vaccines
Most vaccinated people will probably require yet another COVID-19 vaccine booster shot in the fall, a top Food and Drug Administration official said Monday. “That’s when we’ll...
Thousands of NSW health workers to strike
Thousands of health care workers in NSW are set to walk off the job on Thursday amid calls for a pay rise. Workers across the ambulance, allied health, administration, catering, wards, cleaning and...
New Brunswick drops vaccination requirement for many health care employees
New Brunswick has ended its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for a number of government employees in health care and vulnerable sectors. The province is calling unvaccinated workers back to facilities...
More Than a Third of Students Had Poor Mental Health During the Pandemic
New government analyses are providing a comprehensive and troubling snapshot of the mental health of America’s youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. One analysis of data from a nationally...
Sri Lanka crisis forces 13-hour blackouts, hospitals stop surgery
Sri Lanka has announced nationwide 13-hour daily power cuts from Thursday and more hospitals suspended routine surgeries after running out of life-saving medicines, as the cash-strapped island’s...
Wellington youth mental health service near collapse, staff say
Wellington clinicians say the capital’s youth mental health service is desperately short staffed and has all but collapsed. RNZ reported last year about patients facing long wait times at a...
