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Ebola drug gives new hope to patients with coronavirus, says Dr Miriam Stoppard

Mid-March I wrote an article on possible drug treatments for Covid-19. Some of them were already available and being used to treat other conditions, but there was a move afoot among scientists to adapt them to overcome Covid. Among them was a promising candidate, remdesivir, which had achieved some success against Ebola and two coronaviruses.… Read More »

Health systems need to change how they look at waste to reduce costs, expert says

Health systems need to rethink how they view wasteful practices to reduce costs, according to Rhonda Stewart, the senior transformation sensei at the Virginia Mason Institute. “What I want to talk about is to hopefully inspire [health systems] to think about reducing costs differently,” she said in a session at the Healthcare Financial Management Association… Read More »