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The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting

Jun 11, 2021

During a pandemic, no one’s health is fully in their own hands. No field should understand that more deeply than public health, a discipline distinct from medicine. Whereas doctors and nurses treat sick individuals in front of them, public-health practitioners work to prevent sickness in entire populations. They are expected to think big. They know that infectious diseases are always collective problems because they are...

How Health Care In The U.S. May Change After COVID: An Optimist's Outlook

May 31, 2021

With more than one-third of U.S. adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, there's growing optimism on many fronts. A majority of states have either lifted health-related restrictions or have announced target dates for doing so. Already, many clinicians and health policy experts are thinking about what the post-pandemic world will look like. COVID-19 demonstrated that even in a behemoth industry like health...

Almost no nursing home in America was safe from COVID-19, federal study finds

May 26, 2021

'In many cases there were real lapses of oversight,' says a director on GAO's health care team Months after it became painfully clear that older people were the most likely to die from COVID-19, poor infection control resulted in multiple, sustained outbreaks at the overwhelming majority of the nation’s nursing homes, according to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Of the 50 states and District of...

COVID and Long Term Care: Proposed legislation would set standards of care for seniors in long-term care facilities

May 24, 2021

Mike Perry will not engage in the blame game over COVID-19 deaths among residents in America's nursing homes. Nor will many of his colleagues working in the industry exacerbated by the virus. "There were a lot of dynamics going on," said Perry, CEO of the WellBridge Group based in Brighton that operates 26 long-term care facilities in Michigan including Rochester Hills, Clarkston and South Lyon. - Advertisement - ...

MNT investigates: What is the role of genetic testing in lung cancer?

Apr 09, 2021

Genetic testing plays an integral part in diagnosing and treating lung cancer. Doctors use this type of testing to look for certain mutations. A person with a specific mutation may benefit from a targeted treatment. In this article, two experts in the field describe the use of genetic testing and its future in lung cancer treatment. What is genetic testing, and how does it work? Genetic testing looks...

Hackensack Meridian Health's Center for Discovery and Innovation Develops Advanced Test to Track and Diagnose COVID-19 Variants

Apr 05, 2021

New rapid high-throughput test detects E484K COVID-19 mutation in hospital and care settings across New Jersey NUTLEY, N.J., April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) have developed a high-throughput test that can detect multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in two-and-a-half hours, a major advance in tracking the virus and in treating...

Mar 26, 2021

As the global effort to produce vaccines that can curb the COVID-19 pandemic forges ahead, headlines continue to highlight development breakthroughs and safety concerns. This article summarizes the known side effects of the 13 authorized vaccines and provides insight into risks that researchers are still investigating. Currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines The table below gives an overview of the 13...

TEAM Technologies Acquires ViruDefense, Expanding Infection Prevention Portfolio

Mar 19, 2021

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 19, 2021-- TEAM Technologies, Inc. (“TEAM”), an innovative North American healthcare specialty manufacturer focused on providing advanced solutions in medical, oral & dental care, infection prevention and control, and other healthcare use cases, announced today that it has acquired ViruDefense, Inc. (“ViruDefense”), a supplier of fully...

What the COVID-19 Relief Package Means for Health and Health Care

Mar 12, 2021

The $1.9 trillion measure cleared by Congress includes funding for testing and vaccine initiatives and aims to expand the reach of the Affordable Care Act. THE $1.9 TRILLION COVID-19 relief package cleared by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden will provide Americans with $1,400 stimulus payments but also includes a raft of health- and health care-related provisions. The package, dubbed...

It’s time to fast track innovation in medical devices for children

Mar 01, 2021

When a baby arrived at Children’s National Hospital with a critically underdeveloped heart, it was clear to her care team that she needed surgery. But they had a dilemma: At less than 6 pounds, she wasn’t strong enough to undergo surgery but probably wouldn’t survive without it. The solution was a stent, a tube the width of a toothpick. It would be inserted through an artery in her leg, maneuvered into a...

Open Discussions Help Nurses Introduce Integrative Services

Feb 26, 2021

Oncology nurses have an important role in the discussion of and education about complementary therapy, more commonly called integrative care. “The word ‘integrative’ is key in the discussion,” said Eugenie Spiguel, MSN, ANP-BC, a nurse practitioner in the integrative medicine department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York, New York. “When people look at the term ‘alternative,’...

Elsevier advances nursing education by offering innovative virtual reality healthcare simulations to schools across North America

Feb 22, 2021

NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier , a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, today announced the launch of the Simulation Learning System (SLS) for RN with Virtual Reality (SLS with VR), a new digital solution that combines cutting-edge virtual reality technology from SimX with the world-class healthcare content of Elsevier to bring realistic and highly effective VR simulations to...

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