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Contact Events in Rugby Union Linked to Reduced Blood Flow to The Brain, Impacting Brain Function
Repetitive contact events incurred over a single season resulted in professional rugby union players having a reduced ability to regulate blood flow to the brain, which is ess...Full Article
Antacids May Improve Blood Sugar Control In People With Diabetes
Antacids improved blood sugar control in people with diabetes but had no effect on reducing the risk of diabetes in the general population, according to a new meta-analysis pu...Full Article
Potential Marker For Success of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Lung Cancer
Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, and treatment options are extremely limited, especially for patients with oncogenic mutations in the KRAS gene. A gr...Full Article
Missouri Nursing Homes Saved $32 Million By Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations
Detecting illness early among nursing home residents not only improves patient health outcomes, but also reduces avoidable hospitalizations and saves the facilities money, acc...Full Article
Study Links Sleep Apnea In Children To Increased Risk Of High Blood Pressure In Teen Years
Children with obstructive sleep apnea are nearly three times more likely to develop high blood pressure when they become teenagers than children who never experience sleep apn...Full Article
Full-Dose Blood Thinners Reduce The Need For Organ Support In Moderately Ill Covid-19 Patients, But Not In Critically Ill Patients
A large clinical trial conducted worldwide shows that treating moderately ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a full-dose blood thinner reduced their need for organ suppor...Full Article
People Who Manage Their Asthma Can Improve Their Chances Against Covid-19
To avoid severe COVID-19 outcomes, people with asthma should stay on top of the condition with control medication, a new USC study finds. Individuals with well-controlled as...Full Article
First Long COVID Guidance Statement on Fatigue Released By American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
The Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) released the first in a series of peer-reviewed guidance statements to help physicians make clinical decisions con...Full Article
American Nurses Association Supports Mandated COVID-19 Vaccinations for
Nurses and All Health Care Professionals
The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation’s 4.2 million registered nurses, supports health care employers mandating nurses and all health...
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Guiding Principles for Work Shift Duration Published by American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and Sleep Research Society (SRS) have published evidence-based guiding principles to help employers determine optimal work shift ...Full Article
Survey: Only One Quarter Of Nursing Homes Confident They Will Make It Through to Next Year
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes, assisted living communities, and other l...Full Article
New ACR/SBI Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Address Heightened Risk for LGBTQ Persons and Black Women
New American College of Radiology® (ACR®) and Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) breast cancer screening guidelines call for heightened screening attention for transgender indivi...Full Article
Valvular Heart Disease: The Underestimated Risk Of A Common Disease
Hitherto, the development of valvular heart disease in patients with chronic heart failure has been underestimated and rarely treated. This is the finding of a study conducted...Full Article
PFF Update on COVID-19 and Lung Fibrosis
Individuals who have been newly diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) following SARS-CoV-2 infection should be informed on how a PF diagnosis is made and what is still unknow...Full Article
Survey: 94 Percent Of Nursing Homes Face Staffing Shortages
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and long term care facilities across the ...Full Article
Scientists Discover A New Genetic Form Of ALS In Children
In a study of 11 medical-mystery patients, an international team of researchers led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the Uniformed Services University (U...Full Article
Antidepressants May Improve Outcomes In People With Diabetes And Depression
People with diabetes and depression who take antidepressants may have a lower risk of death and of serious diabetes complications, according to a new study published in the En...Full Article
‘Ghosted’ Long COVID Patients Validated by America’s Top Physicians in New Book
Doctors reveal the truth behind the terrible post-COVID epidemic now striking millions of parents and children Award-winning medical journalist Michael Bowker interviews phy...Full Article
About Variants of the Virus that Causes COVID-19
Information about the characteristics of these variants is rapidly emerging. Scientists are working to learn more about how easily they spread, whether they could cause more s...Full Article
UCI-Led Meta-Analysis Identifies Hypertension Medications That Help Ward Off Memory Loss
A large-scale meta-analysis led by University of California, Irvine researchers provides the strongest evidence yet of which blood pressure medications help slow memory loss i...Full Article
Cedars-Sinai Uses Mock Patient Rooms to Test Hospital Design
Architects, Nurses, Physicians and Other Health Professionals Collaborate to Refine Design of Critical Rooms for New Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital. Cedars-Sinai archit...Full Article
Composing Thoughts: Mental Handwriting Produces Brain Activity That Can Be Turned Into Text
NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded project could help people with paralysis to communicate. Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore the abilit...Full Article
Important Updates to the 2021 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes Issued by American Diabetes Association Experts
The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) issued important updates to the 2021 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (Standards of Care), in annotations as the Living Standards...Full Article
AAPM&R Applauds New CDC Guidance on Caring for Patients with Long COVID
The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) applauds the new interim guidance that was release Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...Full Article
San Diego Physician Awarded Institute's 2021 Doris A. Howell Award
A palliative care physician, educator, and leader whose work has helped to expand access to pediatric palliative care for seriously ill children across the San Diego region ha...
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