Your typical health care visit used to consist of driving to a clinic or office, filing out some paperwork, and waiting for someone to call your name when your provider was ready for you.
Then, the coronavirus hit. Suddenly many people were attending appointments on the computer or over the phone, and
telehealth became a household word.
While telehealth appointments have been around for decades, they were on the periphery of the health care system. After the pandemic made it impossible to deliver health care in the same ways as before, telehealth became necessary, and barriers to reimbursement, technology, and licensure began to fall. Some health systems had to move from small-scale telehealth implementation to 100 percent virtual encounters overnight. Patients soon began seeing their doctors from within their own homes. Even in the inpatient setting, they increasingly interacted with health care providers through iPads. Telehealth’s recent progress is something “that most pe
Credit: UCSF
As obesity becomes a growing issue worldwide nearly tripling over the last-half century scientists are trying to gain a better understanding of the condition at the molecular level. Now, new research led by UC San Francisco scientists suggests that a single protein could play an outsized role in weight gain.
As reported in Nature Metabolism on Feb. 18, 2021, UCSF’s Davide Ruggero, Ph.D., and colleagues found that mice in which activity of a protein called eIF4E is diminished, either genetically or pharmaceutically, gain only half the weight of other mice, even if all the mice eat a high-fat diet.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Full year 2020 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded at the company s request. I will now turn the call over to your host, Ms. Lauren Stival, Senior Director of Investor Relations at Dicerna. Please go ahead.
Lauren Stival
Senior Director of Investor Relations
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us to review Dicerna s full year 2020 financial results and operational highlights. For anyone who hasn t yet had a chance to review our results, we issued a press release after the close of trading today, which is available under the investors and media tab on our website at dicerna.com. You may also listen to this conference call via webcast on our website, which will be archived beginning approximately two hours after the call is completed. Speaking on today s call will be Dicerna s President and CEO, Doug Famb
Wealthy ‘vaccine tourists’ are said to be heading to Florida to get vaccinated first. Reuters
As millions of elderly Floridians scramble to register for a limited but growing supply of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States, state officials are clamping down on so-called vaccine tourism by limiting doses to only the state’s part- and full-time residents.
Shirley Hicks, 70, a retired teacher from the state’s west coast, spent three weeks glued to her computer to find a dose for her husband Michael, 80, after Florida became one of the first states in the US allowing vaccines for those aged 65 or older.
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