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by Megan Sauer | Aug 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured, Health
Marissa Robbins, a surgical physician’s assistant at Rochester General Hospital, has always invested in her mental health — she sees a therapist, exercises and spends time with her family every Sunday to cope with the everyday stress of her job. That all changed in...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured, Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a new food safety initiative —called the New Era of Smarter Food Safety — that aims to use technology to better trace foodborne illness. “The most encouraging aspect of this is that FDA really has innovative and...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 7, 2020 | Health
A new effort to tackle the long-standing social isolation and loneliness problems that older adults, people with disabilities and veterans often experience, which has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, has been launched. It’s called the MENTAL Health...
by Alyk Russell Kenlan | Jul 2, 2020 | Health, Science + Technology
The directors of the nation’s top public health agencies reiterated Thursday that they expect to be able to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine by early next year. The heads of the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the...
by Anne Snabes | May 13, 2020 | Featured, Health
ALBANY — The heroism of nurses who have been on the front lines treating COVID-19 patients could lead more people to pursue a career in that profession at a time when experts have been predicting there will be a shortage of registered nurses nationwide as Baby Boomers...
by Alec Bose | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Health
Medicare-for-All has become one of the most important issues in the democratic primary. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the policy has majority support among the American people at 52% as of last month and has become central to the healthcare policy for...
