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Testing Shortages Force Extreme Shift In Strategy By Local Health Officials

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Public health officials in California’s state capital region announced this week they have stopped tracing the contacts of patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. They’ve also ceased recommending quarantines for residents exposed to people confirmed to have the virus. It was a grim recognition… Read More »

Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy

Researchers have converted human stem cells into insulin-producing cells and demonstrated in mice infused with such cells that blood sugar levels can be controlled and diabetes functionally cured for nine months. The findings, from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, are published online Feb. 24 in the journal Nature Biotechnology. “These… Read More »

Analysis | The Health 202: How Pete Buttigieg’s health-care strategy helped him gain traction in the Iowa caucus – The Washington Post

THE PROGNOSIS Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks Wednesday in Concord, N.H. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Former vice president Joe Biden was supposed to be the favorite among Democrats who think Medicare-for-all is too extreme. But in Iowa, Pete Buttigieg seized those voters. The former South Bend, Ind., mayor is at the front of the… Read More »