Volusia-Brevard Local News

Liability Protection Under State or Federal Emergency Declarations

Apr 29, 2020 at 12:52 pm by pj

  By MICHAEL R. LOWE, Esq. and BRIAN C. EVANDER, Esq.   During declared emergencies the legal environment changes. Emergency declarations trigger an array of nont.... Read More

How COVID-19 May Change A Trip To The Dentist’s Office

Apr 29, 2020 at 11:18 am by pj

   By Dr. Kyle Bogan    As the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S., state governments mandated that dental offices open only for emergency procedur.... Read More

Widely Used Surgical Masks Are Putting Health Care Workers At Serious Risk

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:28 pm by pj

(Lynne Shallcross/KHN illustration; Getty Images)   Shefali Luthra, Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News With medical supplies in high demand, federal authorities.... Read More

Amid Coronavirus Distress, Wealthy Hospitals Hoard Millions

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:19 pm by pj

(Hannah Norman/KHN Illustration) Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Inova Health System, with campuses in some of the wealthiest suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Truman Medical.... Read More

Health Insurers Prosper As COVID-19 Deflates Demand For Elective Treatments

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:15 pm by pj

Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News and Steven Findlay  As doctors and consumers are forced to put most nonemergency procedures on hold, many health insurers foresee str.... Read More

Telehealth Will Be Free, No Copays, They Said. But Angry Patients Are Getting Billed.

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:09 pm by pj

    Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News  Karen Taylor had been coughing for weeks when she decided to see a doctor in early April. COVID-19 cases had just exceed.... Read More

Born Into A Pandemic: Virus Complicates Births For Moms And Babies

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:05 pm by pj

(Courtesy of the Pease family)   JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News and Laura Ungar  Mallory Pease’s contractions grew stronger as her husband, Mitchell.... Read More

Seniors With COVID-19 Show Unusual Symptoms, Doctors Say

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:00 pm by pj

    Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News   Older adults with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have several “atypical” symptoms, com.... Read More

Anti-Vaccine Activists Latch Onto Coronavirus To Bolster Their Movement

Apr 28, 2020 at 01:56 pm by pj

    Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News  While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, som.... Read More

AMA Issues Recommendations for Stronger Federal Leadership on COVID-19 Serological Testing

Apr 28, 2020 at 01:02 pm by pj

  As the COVID-19 pandemic continue to evolve, the American Medical Association (AMA) today released a letter sent to Assistant Health Secretary Adm. Brett P..... Read More

HCA Healthcare North Florida Division Hospitals Join Convalescent Plasma Study for COVID-19 Patients

Apr 28, 2020 at 12:19 am by pj

   Hospitals promote need for plasma donations from recovered COVID-19 individuals to potentially help critically ill patients    HCA Healthcare North F.... Read More

American Lung Association Researcher at Helm of Protein Discovery that Constrains COVID-19

Apr 27, 2020 at 12:17 am by LungsOrlando

Breakthrough could inform Coronavirus treatment strategies   By JANELLE HOM   COVID-19 is currently the top story worldwide. Other events of the new year seeming.... Read More

We Are Allowed to Be Irritated

Apr 26, 2020 at 11:11 pm by pj

By JERRY SANDER   Winter is over. Birds, squirrels, foxes, and groundhogs are scurrying around my backyard as nature once again expands. But it is Week Number 5, 6, 7,.... Read More

Brevard’s Parrish Healthcare Opens COVID-19 Drive-Thru Test Collection Site at the Parrish Health & Fitness Center in Titusville

Apr 26, 2020 at 10:00 pm by pj

    Parrish Healthcare, in collaboration with OMNI Healthcare, set to open North Brevard’s first COVID-19 drive-thru test collection site at its Parrish Heal.... Read More

If Tested Positive for COVID-19, 1 of 4 Millennials Would not Self-Quarantine

Apr 26, 2020 at 09:45 pm by pj

From TESTING.COM Within the last few weeks, the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has turned life upside down for millions of people. The h.... Read More

Changes to Telehealth and the Healthcare Market in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Apr 26, 2020 at 09:20 pm by pj

    Lindsay Lowe is an associate attorney at Wolfe Pincavage, a Florida boutique law firm whose entire career has been dedicated to public.... Read More

CMS Re-evaluates Accelerated Payment Program and Suspends Advance Payment Program

Apr 26, 2020 at 08:45 pm by pj

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is reevaluating the amounts that will be paid under its Accelerated Payment Program and suspen.... Read More

 Administration Launches New Toolkit to Help States Navigate COVID-19 Health Workforce Challenges 

Apr 23, 2020 at 02:00 pm by pj

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR) released a new toolkit to help state and local h.... Read More

The American Lung Association launches a $25M initiative to end COVID-19

Apr 23, 2020 at 01:56 pm by pj

 By JANELLE HOM Infectious disease…that’s how it all started for the American Lung Association. In 1904, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the.... Read More

Global Protective Gear creates innovative fabric to combat isolation gown shortages

Apr 23, 2020 at 01:50 pm by pj

  Innovative California company creates coated fabric to replace the non woven goods that are increasingly difficult to find  Global Protective Gear has.... Read More