by Advize Admin | May 6, 2022 | Healthcare
If the Supreme Court’s conservative majority affirms the leaked decision overturning abortion rights in the U.S., the effects would be sweeping for 40 million women in more than two dozen states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the...
by Advize Admin | May 6, 2022 | Healthcare
Something strange happened between the time Linda Griffith signed up for a new Medicare prescription drug plan during last fall’s enrollment period and when she tried to fill her first prescription in January. She picked a Humana drug plan for its low prices, with...
by Advize Admin | May 6, 2022 | COVID19, Healthcare
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans can be forgiven if they’ve lost track of the latest variants circulating nationally and around the world. We’ve heard of the alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and omicron variants, but a new Greek-letter variant hasn’t come...
by Advize Admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Commentary, Community
Are you looking for some great women-owned businesses? Timeout is featuring these 16 businesses that are hot in the city right now. Why did I say 17? Because we are a bunch of New Yorkers here at Advize and we are woman-owned. Well that’s not all, this week, the New...
by Advize Admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Healthcare
The Fierro family of Yuma, Arizona, had a string of bad medical luck that started in December 2020. That’s when Jesús Fierro Sr. was admitted to the hospital with a serious covid-19 infection. He spent 18 days at Yuma Regional Medical Center, where he lost 60 pounds....
by Advize Admin | Apr 29, 2022 | FWA
More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year in an extremely rare...
by Advize Admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Healthcare
Nimisha Srikanth, a public health major at Texas A&M University, keeps boxes of donated Plan B, condoms, and pregnancy tests under her bed. As president of Feminists for Reproductive Equity and Education, she operates an emergency contraception hotline and...
by Advize Admin | Apr 22, 2022 | COVID19
In March 2020, Dr. Joseph Vinetz left the contemplative world of his Yale University infectious-disease laboratory and plunged into the covid ward at Yale New Haven Hospital, joining an army of health care workers who struggled to treat the deadly viral disease. There...
by Advize Admin | Apr 22, 2022 | FWA
Before my insurer had even preapproved coverage of the new injectable medicine my doctor had prescribed, I got a voicemail from its manufacturer informing me that I might qualify for its copay assistance program. That meant the company would cover at least the lion’s...
by Advize Admin | Apr 22, 2022 | Healthcare
If someone’s heart skips a beat, tech companies want to let them know about it. Gadget firms — starting with Apple and now Fitbit, which is owned by Google — are selling wearable devices that check heartbeat rhythms and alert users when something is out of sync. These...
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