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Advocate Aurora Health pledges system will operate on 100% renewable energy by 2030

Advocate Aurora Health has pledged to power the system’s operations entirely with renewable electricity by 2030. The health system includes 27 hospitals and more than 500 sites of outpatient care from Northeast Wisconsin to Central Illinois. “Advocate Aurora Health is the first health system in Illinois to publicly announce such a goal,” the system said… Read More: Advocate Aurora Health pledges system will operate on 100% renewable… »

Most U.S. patients not using online medical portals

(Reuters Health) – Most people in the U.S. with health insurance don’t use the patient portals that are increasingly provided by doctors for online communication, a new study suggests. In a nationally representative survey, researchers found that nearly two-thirds of insured participants had not used an online medical portal in the past year. Disparities among… Read More: Most U.S. patients not using online medical portals »

New Clinical Trial Aims To Detect Cancer With A Quick Breathalyser Test

A new breath test for cancer is being evaluated in a clinical trial involving 1,500 people.Owlstone Medical Ltd Nowadays ‘liquid biopsies,’ the notion of detecting cancer using only a blood test to detect minute amounts of circulating tumor are fairly well-known. But what if not even a blood test was needed to detect cancer, merely… Read More: New Clinical Trial Aims To Detect Cancer With A Quick… »