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How To Build Creativity On And Off-Line, In Childhood And Beyond
Creativity is a fundamental building block of our humanity. It’s the relentless engine that’s driven progress since the dawn of time and propelled us towards so many of our gr...Full Article
MD Anderson Researchers Present Immunotherapy Advances at Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting
Promising clinical results with combination treatments for patients with melanoma and lung cancer highlight immunotherapy advances being presented by researchers from The Univ...Full Article
NIH Holds COVID-19 Vaccine Kick-off Event
The National Institutes of Health held a livestreamed COVID-19 vaccination event to kick-off NIH’s vaccination efforts for its employees on the front line of the COVID-19 pand...
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ANA Collaborates with CDC to Launch Project Firstline
The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation’s 4.2 million registered nurses, is pleased to announce the launch of Project Firstline, a new ...Full Article
Community Immersion as Distance Learning
Community immersion classes are central to teaching nursing students about social determinants of health. But what happens when on-site engagement is suspended due to a pandem...Full Article
Covid-19 Spurs Anxious, Upsetting Dreams
The anxiety, stress and worry brought on by COVID-19 is not limited to daytime hours. The pandemic is affecting our dreams as well, infusing more anxiety and negative emotions...Full Article
Patient Safety Movement Foundation Launches New Commitment Model Supporting Mission to Achieve Zero Preventable Patient Deaths by 2030
Every year, more than 4.8 million patients lose their lives to preventable medical errors worldwide. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), a global non-profit, is com...Full Article
Study Finds Obesity Contributes to 40% Mortality Gap Between Black and White Women with Early Breast Cancer
In an analysis of women with early breast cancer, Black women had higher rates of obesity and other health conditions that can affect survival, compared with white women. The ...Full Article
New Updates to Federal Guidelines Revamp Asthma Management
The National Institutes of Health announced 19 recommendations in six key areas of asthma diagnosis, management and treatment. The new guidance, published in the Journal of Al...Full Article
'Someone who looks like you’ - Ernest Grant, RN, PhD, FAAN president of American Nurses Association and an African American, shares why he is participating in COVID-19 vaccine trial at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Spending a few hours at a University of North Carolina Health clinic, giving his health history and receiving an injection, might not be Ernest Grant’s favorite way to spend a...
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U.S. CDC Committee Of Independent Health Experts Recommends Vaccination With Pfizer And Biontech Covid-19 Vaccine For Persons Ages 16 Years And Older
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...Full Article
New Guide for Prospective and New Parents Helps Them Be Tech Wise With Bab
A new resource designed specifically for expectant and new parents is aiming to help families cultivate healthy screen time habits—for their child and for parents/caregivers w...Full Article
How to Care for Your Skin During Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy plays an important role in treating cancer. However, it can also produce some uncomfortable or even painful side effects on the skin, such as itchiness, redn...
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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
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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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
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
ANCC Virtual Summit - Educational Sessions Available On-Demand
The Nation’s Largest Nursing Conferences Turned Virtual This Year, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) hosted its first ever ANCC Virtual Summit— “An unprecede...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
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
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
