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Increasing Appointment Attendance: A Vital Opportunity to Improve Health Outcomes for Those Living with Sickle Cell Diseases August 10, 2020, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. ET To optimize health outcomes, national guidelines recommend routine follow-up appointments every six months, and more frequently for patients on specific therapies or experiencing complications. Yet, a 2019 national study showed that a…

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Most people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the U.S. are satisfied with their primary care practitioners, but less so with emergency care given at a hospital to manage severe pain, according to a survey of more than 400 teenage and adult patients. How a person expects to be treated weighs on decisions to access care, responses…

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM June 17th, 2020 Volume 50Cov What can we learn from other countries and the 1918 pandemic to slow COVID-19? I’ve talked about where the COVID-19 coronavirus came from, and how we might prevent such emergences from animals in the future, but now that it’s spreading human-to-human, what can we do about it? Social…

Budgets are being formed for the coming fiscal year in Washington next week. We’ve just learned that both the House and the Senate are considering including funding for CDC’s SCDC (surveillance) program, which has not been funded by Congressional budget in the past (although the legislation for the program is passed and signed), and for…

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