Covid-19: How to repair the pandemic’s damage to cancer care
2 years, 10 months ago

Covid-19: How to repair the pandemic’s damage to cancer care

Hindustan Times  

In the pandemic’s third year, we are beginning to discern the total picture of Covid-19’s damage. Cancer patients are among the most vulnerable to catching Covid, and if exposed they’re much more likely than other people to end up in the hospital or to die. What’s more, the waves of infections put pressure on hospitals and their employees, disrupted routine screenings and sent cancer centers scrambling to ensure a continuum of care. Covid’s most quantifiable toll on cancer care has been its effect on screening. When a cancer center is a few hours, or even a plane ride away, or a patient lacks child care or can’t miss work, good care is too often out of reach.

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World Veterinary Day 2023: Pet telehealth can improve access to quality care
1 year, 8 months ago

World Veterinary Day 2023: Pet telehealth can improve access to quality care

Live Mint  

With more people moving from considering pets as a status symbol or something they own towards welcoming them as family members, there has been a renewed focus on pet healthcare. In a recent survey by Supertails, an online platform for pet care needs, most of surveyed Gen-Z said there is a lack of credible information available online that can help …

Telemedicine was made easy during COVID-19. Not any more
2 years, 3 months ago

Telemedicine was made easy during COVID-19. Not any more

Associated Press  

Telemedicine exploded in popularity after COVID-19 hit, but limits are returning for care delivered across state lines. Rinehart’s oncologist, Dr. Shannon MacDonald, said telemedicine regulation enforcement seems to be more aggressive now than it was before the pandemic, when video visits were still emerging. She rented an apartment with her father so she could be in the same state for …

In the new COVID-19 era, politicians are advising the experts — and in some cases, ignoring advice they don't want to hear
2 years, 5 months ago

In the new COVID-19 era, politicians are advising the experts — and in some cases, ignoring advice they don't want to hear

ABC  

It's less than a year since the "hi-vis" protests brought Melbourne's CBD to an almost daily standstill. It's less than six months since the "Convoy to Canberra" saw huge crowds converge on the national capital for a two-week "freedom" festival. This week, Victoria's Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas rejected advice from the state's acting Chief Health Officer to mandate mask-wearing in …

I Was A COVID Doctor. Here's The One Thing I Refuse To Do As We 'Get Back To Normal.'
2 years, 9 months ago

I Was A COVID Doctor. Here's The One Thing I Refuse To Do As We 'Get Back To Normal.'

Huff Post  

A nurse gives medication to a patient with COVID-19 in the medical intensive care unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on April 24, 2020, in New York City. Health care workers are not OK. As the transition back to “normal” begins, our clinics — echoing the rest of the nation — are moving toward a new stage of the …

World Cancer Day 2022: How COVID-19 impacted cancer care in India
2 years, 11 months ago

World Cancer Day 2022: How COVID-19 impacted cancer care in India

Firstpost  

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the entire gamut of cancer care in India, including delaying diagnosis and treatment, and halting clinical trials. In response, healthcare systems are rapidly reorganizing cancer services to ensure that patients continue to receive essential care while minimizing exposure to the COVID-19 infection. COVID-19 exposed cancer care vulnerabilities The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed several vulnerabilities and …

Impact of Covid on cancer care: Unaddressed problem and the possible solutions
2 years, 11 months ago

Impact of Covid on cancer care: Unaddressed problem and the possible solutions

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a catastrophic impact on cancer care. A study done in England showed a substantial increase in avoidable cancer-related deaths as a result of the impact of an ongoing pandemic on cancer care. Increased incidence of advanced-stage disease and increased cancer-related mortality have been noticed in CMC Vellore, a leading cancer care centre in South India. …

Doctors suggest these lifestyle changes to prevent cancer risk amid Covid-19
2 years, 11 months ago

Doctors suggest these lifestyle changes to prevent cancer risk amid Covid-19

Hindustan Times  

According to World Cancer Day Organisation, we currently live in a time of awe-inspiring advancements in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment but many of us who seek cancer care hit barriers at every turn. It highlighted, “Income, education, geographical location and discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and lifestyle are just a few of the factors that …

How telemedicine supported strengthening of primary care
3 years, 4 months ago

How telemedicine supported strengthening of primary care

Hindustan Times  

Covid-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020 by the World Health Organization. Healthcare workers were deployed for pandemic response and healthcare facilities were repurposed as Covid-19 centres resulting in widespread disruptions to routine health services delivery. Frontline healthcare workers engaged in contact tracing were at increased risk and with a large number of …

Telehealth leapt forward with COVID-19. Who was left behind?
3 years, 5 months ago

Telehealth leapt forward with COVID-19. Who was left behind?

LA Times  

Johnnett Kent, who was diagnosed with lung cancer early in the COVID-19 pandemic, has been able to connect with her doctors by phone from her home in Burbank. The pandemic “has absolutely changed people’s view of what is possible,” said Center for Care Innovations President Sofi Bergkvist, whose organization launched a program to help “safety net” health providers improve virtual …

‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ burdens busy US hospitals
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ burdens busy US hospitals

Associated Press  

The COVID-19 comeback across the U.S. is putting pressure on hospitals at a time when some of them are busy just trying to catch up on surgeries and other procedures that were put on hold during the pandemic. Eventually you just don’t want to do it.” Also, many hospitals were busy even before the surge began, dealing with a backlog …

Pandemic forces some patients to phone in doctor visits
3 years, 7 months ago

Pandemic forces some patients to phone in doctor visits

Associated Press  

Video telemedicine took off earlier this year as the coronavirus paused in-person doctor visits. “If this bug every passed my way, I’m a dead man, and I’m going to try to be as careful as possible.” The pandemic pushed the U.S. health care system to embrace video visits, with health insurers waiving fees for telemedicine, doctors moving their practices online …

Covid impact on cancer patients
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid impact on cancer patients

India TV News  

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year and now its resurgence in the second wave we have been left unprepared in true sense to fight this biggest threat to human race in recent times. COVID and cancer In the last one year, we have seen COVID infecting mostly older age group, but now even the young and children …

Covid-19 continues to disrupt essential health services: WHO
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 continues to disrupt essential health services: WHO

India TV News  

Over one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, about 90 percent of the world's 105 countries surveyed still report disruptions to their essential health services, the World Health Organization said. A recent WHO survey has found that about 66 percent of countries continue to report health workforce-related reasons as the most common cause of service disruptions, and in nearly one-third of …

In Covid Times, Telemedicine Can Revolutionise Cancer Care
3 years, 11 months ago

In Covid Times, Telemedicine Can Revolutionise Cancer Care

News 18  

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be one of the most significant threats to global healthcare and well-being, affecting millions across the world in a matter of few months. Telemedicine and tele-health-based interventions have emerged as reasonably practical solutions to these impediments in the delivery of care to cancer patients. Since most of the ‘regular well visits’ for cancer patients …

Paramedics having some patients stay home as hospitals struggle with COVID-19 wave
4 years ago

Paramedics having some patients stay home as hospitals struggle with COVID-19 wave

LA Times  

Paramedics and emergency medical technicians are declining to transport some less severely ill patients whom they might take to the hospital under ordinary circumstances, one of the many extreme steps being taken in Los Angeles County to deal with the COVID-19 surge crippling hospitals. The situation is “overwhelming and growing daily,” said Dr. Glenn Raup, executive director for critical care, …

Coronavirus: 50,000 cases of cancer left undiagnosed due to Covid disruption, research shows
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus: 50,000 cases of cancer left undiagnosed due to Covid disruption, research shows

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lynda Thomas, chief executive at Macmillan Cancer Support, warned …

Coronavirus UK: 50,000 cancer cases MISSED during pandemic crisis
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus UK: 50,000 cancer cases MISSED during pandemic crisis

Daily Mail  

Up to 50,000 cancer cases have gone undiagnosed during the pandemic, a leading charity warned yesterday. Macmillan Cancer Support added that the country was ‘at a crossroads’ and said shutting down cancer care this winter could cost thousands of lives. NHS England said the grim forecast does not factor in the work of health staff in recent weeks to bring …

Cancer patients with Covid-19 at higher risk than others: Study
4 years, 2 months ago

Cancer patients with Covid-19 at higher risk than others: Study

India Today  

The outcomes of contracting coronavirus are poorer among cancer patients, a new study in the US has found. The study said cancer patients who get infected with Covid-19 have a higher chance of being hospitalised and given intensive care, in comparison to other Covid-19 patients. It added that death rates were 14 per cent among cancer patients who also had …

Op-Ed: The danger in postponing cancer screenings during the pandemic
4 years, 3 months ago

Op-Ed: The danger in postponing cancer screenings during the pandemic

LA Times  

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a distressing downturn has occurred — cancer screenings dramatically decreased across the country. At USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine, we are reaching out to our patients, emphasizing the many precautions we’ve put into place to protect their health, such as mask wearing, social distancing and frequent sanitizing of surfaces. In an attempt …

Government support for telehealth services extended by six months as toll of coronavirus pandemic continues
4 years, 3 months ago

Government support for telehealth services extended by six months as toll of coronavirus pandemic continues

ABC  

The Federal Government will extend subsidised telehealth sessions for an extra six months, as part of a $2 billion top up to keep COVID-19 health measures going during the pandemic. Key points: The telehealth scheme was due to finish at the end of this month The telehealth scheme was due to finish at the end of this month More than …

Blood cancer patients most vulnerable to Covid-19: Study
4 years, 3 months ago

Blood cancer patients most vulnerable to Covid-19: Study

India Today  

Blood cancer patients are more vulnerable to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a new study has found. The study, published in Lancet Oncology on Monday by the UK Coronavirus Cancer Monitoring Project, found that blood cancer patients were particularly at risk with 57 per cent higher odds of severe disease if they contract Covid-19. The project was set up …

The Hindu Explains | How will a centralised electronic medical records tool help to monitor trends about COVID-19?
4 years, 4 months ago

The Hindu Explains | How will a centralised electronic medical records tool help to monitor trends about COVID-19?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The COVID-19 pandemic has been the start of a great spurt in innovation in the health-care industry. They put together a centralised electronic medical records tool that would help them gather, monitor, analyse clinical trends in COVID-19 across multiple countries. Further, the researchers argued in a paper International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the …

Covid-19 fears forcing many to give vital treatments a miss
4 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 fears forcing many to give vital treatments a miss

Hindustan Times  

After having beaten breast cancer, Santosh Batra was a bit concerned when she felt pain and uneasiness on the left side of her chest in mid-June, but she postponed a visit to the hospital for fears of contracting the coronavirus disease infection. Dr AK Singh Rana, medical superintendent of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, said, “With hospitals flooded with Covid-19 …

Telemedicine shines during pandemic but will glow fade?
4 years, 4 months ago

Telemedicine shines during pandemic but will glow fade?

Associated Press  

Racked with anxiety, Lauren Shell needed to talk to her cancer doctor. She felt comforted afterward “knowing that I wasn’t alone.” This is how doctors and health care researchers envision telemedicine evolving after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. “Your care is going to get better,” said Dr. Thomas Lee, a Harvard professor and care delivery expert with the health care consultant …

Focus on battling COVID-19 deals deadly blow to cancer care as lockdown disrupts early diagnosis, treatment
4 years, 5 months ago

Focus on battling COVID-19 deals deadly blow to cancer care as lockdown disrupts early diagnosis, treatment

Firstpost  

The attention of the authorities and frontline workers has been focused on testing and treating COVID-19 patients, resulting in the neglect of a disease that has a far higher fatality rate - cancer Over the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered our lives. Over the past few months, media reports and first-hand accounts from medical practitioners have …

Telemedicine as a career: All you need to know from the expert
4 years, 5 months ago

Telemedicine as a career: All you need to know from the expert

India Today  

Telemedicine has emerged as a haven for healthcare professionals amidst a global pandemic. Today telemedicine incorporates everything from remote patient care to occupational therapy and psychiatry, and the field is becoming progressively acceptable as the world deals with a pandemic. Telemedicine as a career: All you need to know from the expert Changing demands of the healthcare industry While telemedicine …

‘We’re just overwhelmed’: The view from inside hospitals as coronavirus surge hits
4 years, 5 months ago

‘We’re just overwhelmed’: The view from inside hospitals as coronavirus surge hits

LA Times  

For months, California hospitals avoided the dreaded surge in coronavirus patients that threatened to overwhelm wards and stretch thin staff and supplies. “When this all started in March, it was an amazing dress rehearsal on fire,” said Sylvain Trepanier, chief clinical executive for Providence Southern California, whose 13 hospitals in Orange, L.A. and San Bernardino counties had as of Friday …

Life after coronavirus: A look at what recovery from COVID-19 may look like for many survivors
4 years, 6 months ago

Life after coronavirus: A look at what recovery from COVID-19 may look like for many survivors

Firstpost  

Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill coronavirus patients who survive and leave the hospital are facing a new and difficult challenge: Recovery Many are struggling to overcome a range of troubling residual symptoms of the coronavirus, and some problems may persist for months, years or even the rest of their lives. “It’s really common for patients to have PTSD after …

Doctors and nurses are your neighbors and friends
4 years, 6 months ago

Doctors and nurses are your neighbors and friends

Salon  

In Tacurong City, the Philippines, a nurse is surrounded by a mob. In Indore, India, where my mother and two aunts went to medical college in India before coming to the U.S. to care for children in a pediatric public health clinic, a mob gathered to throw stones at a team arriving to treat COVID-19, bloodying the doctors, who still …

Covid-19 unmasks what cancer patients have long known
4 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 unmasks what cancer patients have long known

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Princess Dina Mired of Jordan is the president of the Union for International Cancer Control, a group that convenes cancer societies, patient groups, and ministries of health around the world to advocate for cancer control and capacity building, and formerly served as director general of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation. You have given a new, profound meaning to …

16 Health Workers Talk About Their Battles With the Pandemic
55 years ago

16 Health Workers Talk About Their Battles With the Pandemic

Wired  

Health care workers the world over have never faced combat with anything quite like Covid-19, a disease that spreads rapidly and so far has killed more than 360,000 people worldwide. Regions that acted quickly, like the San Francisco Bay Area, have so far succeeded—those that stalled, like New York City, saw their hospitals flooded with patients. WIRED’s video team reached …

Coronavirus: More than 25,000 patients discharged to care homes in crucial 30 days before routine testing
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus: More than 25,000 patients discharged to care homes in crucial 30 days before routine testing

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 25,000 patients were discharged to care homes by NHS …

The unexpected side effect of Covid-19 (Opinion)
4 years, 7 months ago

The unexpected side effect of Covid-19 (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: H. Gilbert Welch is a general internist in the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and author of “Less Medicine, More Health.” Vinay Prasad is an oncologist, associate professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University and author of “Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Medicine Harm People With Cancer.” The opinions …

The Doctor Will See You Now … Online: Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s coronavirus podcast for May 6
4 years, 8 months ago

The Doctor Will See You Now … Online: Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s coronavirus podcast for May 6

CNN  

CNN — As health care systems across the country focus on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, many have halted nonessential and non-emergency services. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to Dr. Gregory Esper, who leads Emory University’s telehealth initiatives, about how technology is changing the way health care is delivered. Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Two weeks before Dia Sue-Wah-Sing had …

Here's how ambulance difficulties are killing non-Covid-19 patients
4 years, 8 months ago

Here's how ambulance difficulties are killing non-Covid-19 patients

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic is having some unforeseen effects on non-Covid-19 patients, a survey has found. Carried out by emergency specialists in private hospitals, the survey found that in 15 top hospitals in Hyderabad reported a 45 per cent increase in the number of ‘brought dead’ non-Covid-19 patients in April. Then, a 45-year-old male with low sugar levels consulted a …

The coronavirus outbreak could push telemedicine into mainstream
4 years, 8 months ago

The coronavirus outbreak could push telemedicine into mainstream

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — Telemedicine has been around for more than two decades, but its adoption among Americans has been relatively low. “Unfortunately, it’s taken some pretty extraordinary circumstances, but I think this will be a watershed moment for the industry,” Zipnosis CEO Jon Pearce told CNN Business. “Instead of talking to a doctor over video, you would answer …

COVID-19 enhances reliance on telemedicine
4 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 enhances reliance on telemedicine

The Hindu  

Telemedicine is an all-encompassing term for providing remote virtual healthcare with the healthcare provider and the beneficiary physically in different locations. In India formal telemedicine commenced on March 24, 2000 when Bill Clinton commissioned the world’s first VSAT -enabled village hospital at Aragonda, the birth place of P.C. The recently notified Telemedicine Practice Guidelines enables Registered Medical Practitioners to send …

WHO reminds governments, hospitals to continue to provide essential health services despite Coronavirus crisis
4 years, 9 months ago

WHO reminds governments, hospitals to continue to provide essential health services despite Coronavirus crisis

Firstpost  

Essential health services must continue, babies are still being born, vaccines must still be delivered in this crisis. “COVID-19 is revealing how fragile many of the world’s health systems and services are, forcing countries to make difficult choices on how to best meet the needs of their people.” He also said, “Previous outbreaks have demonstrated that when health systems are …

Are all doctors offering telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic and do you have to use it?
4 years, 9 months ago

Are all doctors offering telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic and do you have to use it?

ABC  

From today, Australians will be able to access bulk-billed telehealth consultations with their doctors and many other health professionals — meaning they won't have to pay any out-of-pocket costs. It's worth noting that doctors will be getting less money in their pockets from the telehealth consultations, as they'll be forced to bulk-bill. People can now access bulk-billed telehealth consultations for …

Telehealth system expanded to help patients get help during coronavirus pandemic, more test kits and masks on the way
4 years, 9 months ago

Telehealth system expanded to help patients get help during coronavirus pandemic, more test kits and masks on the way

ABC  

Health Minister Greg Hunt says Australia is getting access to crucial supplies to help combat the coronavirus outbreak, as well as moving to a whole-of-population telehealth system. Key points: All patients will be able to claim Medicare rebates when they see their doctor or other medical professional via video conferencing GPs who are vulnerable to COVID-19 will be able to …

Telemedicine emerges as care option during COVID-19 outbreak
4 years, 9 months ago

Telemedicine emerges as care option during COVID-19 outbreak

Associated Press  

Got a worrisome rash? U.S. public health officials, hospitals and insurance companies are pushing people to try telemedicine for their allergies, earaches and other minor problems and skip the doctor’s office or clinic. Some telemedicine outlets also offer a version using text messages between a doctor and patient who may not actually speak to or see each other. Telemedicine can …

Patients and doctors are turning to telehealth, but what is it?
4 years, 9 months ago

Patients and doctors are turning to telehealth, but what is it?

CNN  

CNN — The coronavirus pandemic has opened the door for Medicare patients to have access to telehealth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Tuesday. During the coronavirus outbreak, patients seeking medical assistance through telehealth will reduce the strain on doctors’ time and resources as the number of cases continues to climb, said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. Medicare patients …

To keep seniors safe at home, Medicare expands telemedicine
4 years, 9 months ago

To keep seniors safe at home, Medicare expands telemedicine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Medicare said Tuesday it will immediately expand coverage for telemedicine nationwide to help seniors with health problems stay home to avoid the coronavirus. Since last year Medicare has also been paying for brief “virtual check-ins.” Tuesday’s announcement goes beyond that, allowing clinicians and hospitals to bill Medicare for visits via telemedicine that previously had to take place in …

Chemotherapy and the coronavirus threat — my immunity levels mean you need to care about COVID-19
4 years, 9 months ago

Chemotherapy and the coronavirus threat — my immunity levels mean you need to care about COVID-19

ABC  

It has been a strange feeling hearing my possible death openly labelled inconsequential by public figures, commentators and even by some of my friends. Some remark that coronavirus has "only a 1-4 per cent" fatality rate, while others implore that everyone relax because "most people will only get mild symptoms". When retired broadcaster Patricia Barraclough — who described herself as …

As coronavirus spreads, Medicare gets telemedicine option
4 years, 10 months ago

As coronavirus spreads, Medicare gets telemedicine option

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The coronavirus legislation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday lets Medicare expand the use of telemedicine in outbreak areas, potentially reducing infection risks for vulnerable seniors. “Telehealth is really instrumental in containing and treating disease, particularly in a public health emergency,” said Megan O’Reilly, a lobbyist with AARP, the advocacy group for older people, which pushed for …

Lessons From U.S. Hospitals Caring For COVID-19 Patients
4 years, 10 months ago

Lessons From U.S. Hospitals Caring For COVID-19 Patients

NPR  

Hospitals Caring For COVID-19 Patients Enlarge this image toggle caption Francis Joseph Dean/Corbis via Getty Images Francis Joseph Dean/Corbis via Getty Images As Americans begin to cope with the prospect that the novel coronavirus could sp So far, several dozen people or so, across the country have been hospitalized with the virus, and at least six people in the U.S. …

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