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Health Care Organizations Issue Joint Framework to Increase Utilization of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
Seven leading diabetes organizations issued a consensus report today highlighting the value of diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) services as part of compr...Full Article
American Nurses Association Joins Letter Urging Public to Wear Masks to Stop the Spread of COVID-19
The American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA) and ANA issued an open-call-to-action urging the public to take the steps that we know to stop ...Full Article
Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients With Diabetes Represent More Than 20 Percent of ICU Population
The COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges for clinicians caring for infected patients with diabetes, according to new guidance published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal...Full Article
ASHA’s Identify the Signs Campaign Joins Forces With Bright by Text
To help connect families with information about their child’s communication development, expected milestones, and everyday ways to build key skills in their critical early yea...
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Woman Receives Double Lung Transplant After Being Turned Away from Over 20 Hospitals
She was deemed too “high risk” for surgery but the transplant team at UCLA accepted the challenge of treating her. Miriam Merianos was a healthy woman in her 40s when she got...Full Article
ASCP to Collaborate with ASCLS and ASM in Choosing Wisely Campaign
By request from the ABIM Foundation, ASCP has collaborated in working with the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) and the American Society for Microbiolo...
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Study Indicates that Medicaid Expansion Has Led to Earlier Cancer Detection Among Individuals with Low Income
New research found that the likelihood of being diagnosed with advanced cancer decreased among individuals with low income after expansion of Medicaid coverage. The findings a...Full Article
5 Tips to Improve Nail Psoriasis at Home
Approximately 7.5 million people in the U.S.1 have psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory disease that mostly affects the skin and joints but could also affect the nails. According...Full Article
Dr. James Lynch is the First US Private Practice Surgeon to Use Augmented Reality Spine Surgical Guidance at a Community Hospital
Spine Nevada Minimally Invasive Spine Institute announced that Dr. James Lynch, a board-certified and fellowship-trained neurological surgeon, was the first private practice s...Full Article
Study Finds Immune Cell That Predicts Risk Of Organ Rejection In Transplant Patients
Researchers at The Ohio State University College of Medicine are the first to identify an immune cell that may predict a transplant patient’s risk of developing antibodies tha...Full Article
Get Covid Compliant with COVID SAFE
VideoForU, a professional full-service video production company, announced the launch of: COVID SAFE, a four minute training video that carefully explains the safety measures ...Full Article
New Munters Whitepaper Explores How Humidity Affects Viral Infectivity and Longevity
There is a demonstratable link between humidity and the infectivity and longevity of a variety of viruses, such as influenza and coronaviruses, according to a new whitepaper b...Full Article
26 Health Care Groups Sign On To “Return To Procedures” Guidance
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced 26 addi...Full Article
Mental Health and Emergency Medical Experts Encourage Support for Clinicians Health During Pandemic
In a joint statement, emergency medicine and other leading medical associations, academics and psychiatry experts outline steps to support the mental health of emergency physi...Full Article
NIH Researchers Identify Key Genomic Features That Could Differentiate SARS-CoV-2 From Other Coronaviruses That Cause Less Severe Disease
A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, identified genomic features of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...Full Article
Survey: U.S. Voters Strongly Support More Funding For Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Communities In Response To Coronavirus Pandemic
According to a new national survey, a vast majority of U.S. voters believe long term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living communities, need more suppor...Full Article
Digital Well-Being Guidelines for Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this unprecedented time, technology has become part of the social fabric in a deeper, more intimate way than ever before—for those of us able to access it, technology has b...Full Article
Expert comment on antibody tests for COVID-19
With promises of antibody tests being rolled out in the next few days to NHS and care staff in England, and retailers told not to send home-testing kits as their accuracy is q...Full Article
Covid-19 Crisis Triage - - Optimizing Health Outcomes and Disability Rights
New England Journal of Medicine article offers policy recommendations for triage protocols that save the most lives and protect core values, such as the equal moral worth of a...
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Human Growth Hormone May Prevent Loss of Muscle Strength after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Human growth hormone (HGH) may prevent the loss of muscle strength after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, according to results from a pilot study conducted by ...Full Article
The American Academy of Audiology Recommends Protecting Your Hearing from Loud Outdoor Noise Exposure
As summer nears, the American Academy of Audiology is warning the public to protect its hearing when exposed to loud outdoor sounds—from fireworks to lawn equipment to road eq...Full Article
Has the Coronavirus Got You Lost in Time?
A woman walked to answer the doorbell the other day and was surprised to see the workers who had arrived to replace her front walkway. “I wasn’t expecting you to be here unt...Full Article
Risk Factors for COVID-19 Death Revealed in World’s Largest Analysis of Patient Records to Date
Academics at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), working on behalf of NHS England and in partnership with NHSX, have analyse...Full Article
Northwestern University Grant Delivers Free COVID-19 Children’s Book to Teachers & School Systems Nationwide
Elementary educators looking for a free resource to teach students about the Coronavirus and COVID-19 will have help from a zany book character named Mrs. Can. Thanks to a gra...Full Article
COVID-19 Causes Pulmonary Arterial Thrombosis and Damages Other Organs As Well As The Lungs
COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, not only may lead to severe pneumonia but also to thrombosis in the lungs and, subsequently, to multi organ failure involving kidne...Full Article
