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NEWS-Line says Thank You and Happy Thanksgiving
We'd like to take this opportunity to say thanks for being part of the NEWS-Line community of professionals, students, faculty, writers, bloggers, associations, schools, adver...Full Article
St. Jude Psychologists Release Tips for Helping People Through Their First Covid-19 Holiday Season
With the first COVID-19 holiday season upon us, many Americans are anticipating the difficult challenge of how to celebrate this year. To help families across the country, the...Full Article
Covid-19 Pandemic Drives Innovation in Diabetes Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has jumpstarted innovation in health care delivery and allowed for real-world testing of diabetes care models in unprecedented ways, according to a manus...Full Article
The Good Cough and the Bad Cough: Treating Coughs in a Targeted Way, Based on Their Type
Researchers might be able to treat a troublesome cough in disease without disrupting the protective cough we need for optimal lung health, by targeting the different brain cir...Full Article
Personality Traits Affect Shelter At Home Compliance
A worldwide survey conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic found that people with certain common personality traits were less likely to shelter at home when g...Full Article
Nursing Homes See Continued Record Number Of New COVID Cases As Community Spread Increases Across The U.S.
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted living communities across th...Full Article
Smidt Heart Institute Cardiothoracic Surgeons Continue to Perform Safe, Successful Heart and Lung Transplants Throughout the Pandemic
Rosemarie Barron was 17 when she had a cardiac arrest and underwent an emergency heart transplant. While she survived and continued to live a full and vibrant life, her long...
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Risky Behaviors To Be Wary of During Pandemic This Winter
With temperatures beginning to tumble in many parts of the country and winter right around the corner, Americans have begun reaching for their thermostats. And with millions o...
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Stress In America 2020 Survey Signals A Growing National Mental Health Crisis
Stress from COVID-19 — along with stress related to health care, the economy, racism and the presidential election — is seriously threatening the mental health of our country,...Full Article
Leading Rehabilitation Providers Partner in Key Telehealth Research Study in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Brooks Rehabilitation is pleased to announce the launch of an essential research study that will advance the use of telehealth for rehabilitation in response to public health ...Full Article
St. Jude’s Leading Virologists Release Insights Into Top Five Questions About Covid and the Flu
With winter’s dual influenza season and COVID, Richard Webby, Ph.D, a member of the Infectious Diseases Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the World Healt...Full Article
November Is Diabetes Awareness Month - How Technology Is Making a Difference for People with Diabetes and Visual Impairment
For millions of people in the United States who have diabetes or pre-diabetes, improving health and avoiding diabetes-related complications is essential. The good news is that...
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Top Physician Assistants Honored As Healthcare Heroes Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic
Over the last decade, physician assistants (PA) have seen an increase in responsibility and authority within the healthcare industry, accounting for 49 percent of all prescrip...Full Article
ANCC Announces Inaugural 2020 Pathway Nurse of the Year Award Winners
The award recognizes the outstanding contributions of one direct care nurse and one nurse leader from all Pathway to Excellence designated organizations around the world. The ...Full Article
Study Examines Cancer’s Effects on Young Women’s Employment and Finances
Cancer and its treatment can impact an individual’s ability to work, and employment disruptions can lead to financial hardships. A new study indicates that women who were diag...
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Study Links Patients Living in Disadvantaged Areas to Inadequate Screening for Obesity
Obesity is a worldwide health epidemic, and here in Missouri, more than 35% of adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previous studies ...Full Article
Prostate Cancer: Immunotherapy Offers Hope
An antibody for treating advanced prostate cancer improves progression-free survival in patients with metastasised, castration-resistant prostate cancer. This is the finding o...Full Article
Biometric Data, Algorithms To Unlock Key Information About Circadian Clock
Anyone who has experienced a midafternoon energy slump or suffered from jetlag has felt the effects of their body’s circadian rhythm. This internal clock helps regulate many o...Full Article
As COVID Continues, Can Hospitals Create Better Bed Management Through Math?
The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on a significant healthcare problem: a sudden inundation of critically ill patients can take a hospital’s bed capacity to the limit – ...Full Article
Duke University School of Nursing Marks 90 Years
Since its beginning in 1931, the Duke University School of Nursing has become a place where faculty and students from around the world come to study and grow into progressive ...Full Article
Celebrating a Healthcare Hero: Nurse Highlights Camaraderie While Volunteering to Treat Covid-19 Patients
Albuquerque nephrology nurse Sandy Nichols didn’t think twice when she got the call to volunteer in Chicago, a hot zone for COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic, to provide e...Full Article
Covid-19 Safety Protocols Keep Clinical Staff Infection Rates Low At Ohio State
Universal COVID-19 pandemic protocols in place at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center such as masking, hand hygiene, physical distancing and testing of symptomatic...Full Article
Exercise Before Menopause is Important to Optimize Health in Later Years
The small blood vessels in muscles of women after menopause are less able to grow compared to young women, according to new research published today in The Journal of Physiolo...Full Article
FDA Approves Study to Investigate the Use of Cell Therapy to Treat COVID-19 Related Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
The Cura Foundation in collaboration with The Marcus Foundation, Sanford Health and Alliance for Cell Therapy Now, is supporting a clinical trial of human cord tissue mesenchy...Full Article
Vivify Health Releases ‘Aging in Place with Remote Patient Care’ White Paper
Vivify Health, the developer of the nation’s leading connected care platform for remote patient care, announced the release of a new white paper, "Aging in Place with Remote P...Full Article
