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End-of-life care necessitates some impactful and difficult choices. With medical, emotional, and moral conflicts, these choices are incredibly complex. Through trying periods, social workers provide crucial guidance, emotional assistance, and customized resource allocation based on individual values and beliefs. The article delves into the role of social workers in...
World Health Organization Director-General Dt. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reports the latest global coronavirus cases and the concern as the COVID-19 Delta variant spreads.
Cops were called to a neighborhood in Brooklyn where a funeral home had been storing coronavirus casualties in rented trucks.  The New York funeral home stated that the morgue had been filled to the brim with corpses, which led to them using trucks in the first place.  Unfortunately, it gave off...
A concussion is a brain injury resulting in temporal loss of normal brain function. However, in medical terms, a concussion is a clinical syndrome characterized by transient and immediate alteration in normal brain function. Although it is usually not severe and can last a few days or weeks, in some...
A relatively new nicotine product that sits at the gum line and doesn't smoke has gained a lot of new users in just the last year. It's an oral nicotine pouch, and it sits at the gum line so you can't really tell it's there. Philip Morris International said in...
Yahoo Finance’s Dani Romero reports on businesses requiring covid vaccination are being hit by bad reviews on Yelp.
Dr. Dave Chokshi, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene joined Yahoo Finance Live to break down what's next for Americans as hospitalizations rise as the delta variant of COVID spreads.
As the phase 3 trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine begins, Dr. Anthony Fauci, leading epidemiologist dealing with the case of the novel coronavirus in the US mentions on Friday that he is “cautiously optimistic” regarding the success of the potential vaccine. Adding further to the string of hope,...
Buddy, a 6-year-old German Shepherd living with a family in Staten Island, US, dies after testing positive for the coronavirus. The family, in an exclusive interview with National Geographic, describes their last few days with their canine buddy before he becomes the first dog in the US to test positive...
Dr. Anthony Fauci and CNN's Wolf Blitzer discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and facing the challenges of vaccine distribution as variants spread across the country.
Amazon has urged its warehouse workers to submit a formal request if they want to stay back home due to the Coronavirus scare. It has asked its workers to come to their shifts starting 1st May or apply for absent leave. The leave would be applicable for part-time as well as...
Patient-centered care considers and incorporates a patient's values, preferences, and goals into clinical decision-making and outcome evaluation. To achieve better outcomes, this collaboration between a caregiver and patient addresses the physical, mental, spiritual, and social determinants of a patient's health. A shift in perspective on patients is required to achieve...
Dr. Natasha Kathuria, Global Outreach Doctors Board of Directors & Emergency Medicine Physician joined Yahoo Finance's Seana Smith and Jared Blikre to break down her thoughts on the COVID-19 Delta variant and vaccinations in the U.S.
A University of Oxford team, headed by Sarah Gilbert seems most confident in creating a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. With a possible 80% chance of success, they are moving rapidly to develop this potential vaccine and making it available for the public as recently as September. On Thursday itself,...
The Trump government is going to pledge almost $2.1 billion to two pharmaceuticals- GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi to bring out the vaccines that would finally stop the coronavirus pandemic spreading throughout the globe. This is said to be the biggest US investment in snapping up supplies and fast-tracking shots. The...
The recent autopsy report of two deceased persons from Northern California’s Santa Clara County reveals that the two had died of the coronavirus in early and mid-February, 3 weeks before the first official COVID-19 death. According to health experts, this revelation will help in studying the virus profoundly as to...
Fifteen children at least have been identified with symptoms of a rare inflammatory in New York City hospitals. This alarms pediatricians all over the country and also have some concerns about a potential link to COVID-19. Symptoms that appeared on the patients usually seen in the Kawasaki disease or toxic...
Yahoo Finance's Kristin Myers and Adriana Belmonte discuss the new study on the sharp decline of mental health in 2020.
The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the nation's top public health agency -- is speaking out forcefully about gun violence in America, calling it a "serious public health threat."
Nails are a cute tough layer of protein called keratin. Besides the aesthetic value they add to the general physiology of the body, they also serve other key functions such as protection of the nail bed as well as contribute to the psychomotor mechanism of the body. When toenails are...