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Gentrification and declining Black population may be a key factor behind San Francisco’s declining HIV rates

Dramatic declines in HIV diagnoses in San Francisco have been attributed to testing, treatment and PrEP, but the declining Black population in the city is an unexamined factor, Dr Jade Pagkas-Bather of the University of Chicago and colleagues argue in the December issue of The Lancet HIV. There has been a 22% fall in San… Read More »

Coronavirus: Children behind rising demand for tests in England

Demand for coronavirus tests has almost trebled among young children in England this month – but only 1% were found to have the virus, figures show. In the first two weeks of September, more than 200,000 under-nines were tested, according to government’s test-and-trace programme. That is nearly three times as many as in the previous… Read More »

Coronavirus US: Vaping may be behind rise in hospitalised young

Experts question whether vaping epidemic is behind younger adults being hospitalized with coronavirus, as it’s revealed that smokers were 14-times more at risk of their illness becoming severe Nearly 40% of hospitalized US coronavirus patients are between ages 20 and 54  One in five young American adults uses e-cigarettes regularly or occasionally  A Chinese study… Read More »

Behind the Big Deal: Teladoc Health’s Acquisition of InTouch Health | Joe DeVivo, InTouch Health

Health Tech Feb 19, 2020• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It was a seminal moment in virtual care as Teladoc Health acquired Intouch Health for $ 600 million, effectively taking its mostly direct-to-consumer telehealth platform directly into more than 2,500 care providers — or, as they say, “from hospital to home.” We caught up with… Read More »