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Students’ Mass Migration Back to College Gets a Failing Grade

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Epidemiologists and disease modelers tried to predict what would happen when students moved back to campus. Although some universities listened to their advice, that didn’t stop outbreaks from happening.

With No Legal Guardrails for Patients, Ambulances Drive Surprise Medical Billing

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Studies show that at least half of ground ambulance rides across the nation leave patients with “surprise” medical bills. And a $300-a-mile ride is not unusual. Yet federal legislation to stem what’s known as balance billing has largely ignored ambulance costs.

Kids Are Missing Critical Windows for Lead Testing Due to Pandemic

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Inspections for lead hazards and blood testing for lead have dropped significantly just as kids are spending more time in the places where their exposure to the poisonous metal is highest: their homes.

One College’s Pop-Up COVID Test: Stop and ‘Smell the Roses’ (Or the Coffee)

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Forget those thermometers. Researchers, finding a surer link between the loss of the sense of smell and a coronavirus infection, suggest the symptom may be an easy and less expensive method for screening.

Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities

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About 70 college students are enrolled this summer in a program developed by San Francisco researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health that allows them to explore the pandemic’s impact on communities facing health disparities.

Pandemic Hampers Reopening of Joint Replacement Gold Mine

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought knee and hip replacements to a virtual halt because they aren’t usually considered emergency procedures. But they are profitable, and hospital systems are now counting on the surgeries to help restore their financial health.

Scientists Want to Know More About Using UV Light to Fight COVID-19 Spread

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‘Germicidal’ ultraviolet light technology has a proven track record against indoor transmission of tuberculosis and other airborne microbes. It’s now being used in some restaurants and on subways.

Estudio federal analiza COVID-19 y las disparidades raciales en Estados Unidos

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Investigadores del NIH tratan de establecer la relación entre factores socioeconómicos como el ingreso, la estructura familiar, la dieta, el acceso a la atención médica y las infecciones por COVID y sus resultados.

NIH Project Homes In on COVID Racial Disparities

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The pandemic has given the National Institutes of Health an opportunity to show the value of its $1.5 billion “All of Us” research program. A major effort to make the platform’s database representative of America resulted in minorities making up more than half of its more than 270,000 volunteers.

Why Doctors Keep Monitoring Kids Who Recover From Mysterious COVID-Linked Illness

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About 1,000 children worldwide have had the condition known as MIS-C — Multisymptom Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. Children’s hospitals around the U.S. are trying to keep tabs on young people after they recover from the ailment, to gauge any long-term effects.

Shingles Vaccination Rate Soars But Leaves Many Behind

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A federal study finds 35% of people 60 and older were vaccinated for shingles by 2018, up from 7% in 2008, but low-income people and those who are Black or Hispanic are far less likely to get vaccinated.