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Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, begins post as CDC Director and ATSDR Administrator
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, officially begins her post as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the ninth administrator of the Agenc...Full Article
Childhood Cancer Survivors Are Not More Likely to Terminate their Pregnancies
Female childhood cancer survivors face a lower likelihood of becoming pregnant than women in the general population, but once pregnant, they are not more likely to undergo an ...Full Article
Caris Life Sciences Accurately Identifies 21 Cancer Types Using Artificial Intelligence Derived Molecular Signatures
Caris Life Sciences®, a leading innovator in molecular science and artificial intelligence focused on fulfilling the promise of precision medicine, today announced positive re...Full Article
Duke School of Nursing Hosts 58th Annual Harriet Cook Carter Lecture, ‘Future of Nursing Report,’ Health Equity Among Topics
The future of nursing will be the guiding topic of the Duke University School of Nursing’s 58th annual Harriet Cook Carter Lecture on February 2 at 3 p.m. EST. Susan B. Hassm...Full Article
The American Public Continues to Rank Nurses as The Most Honest and Ethical Professionals in Annual Gallup Poll
The American public once again ranks nurses as the most honest and ethical professionals in Gallup's annual poll for the 19th consecutive year. This consistent ranking directl...Full Article
Nearly Half of Young Drivers Are Resuming Driving Just Weeks After Sustaining a Concussion
Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) found that nearly half of adolescents who sough...Full Article
New Virtual Education Guide to Help Students with Disabilities
As millions of students with disabilities and their parents head into the winter months of this pandemic and continued fluctuations between in-person, hybrid and remote learni...Full Article
How to Prevent Vision Loss from Glaucoma
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, affecting over 3 million people in the United States alone. It is often called the silent thief of sight because ...
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Ohio State Study Finds Playing Brain Games Before Surgery Helps Improve Recovery
A new study by led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and The Ohio State University College of Medicine finds that exercising your brain with “...Full Article
Temperature Scanners of Limited Value in Detecting Covid-19
Making people stand in front of a scanner to have their body temperature read can result in a large number of false negatives, allowing people with Covid-19 to pass through ai...
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Adults With Endocrine Disorders Have an Increased Risk of Heart Disease
All adults with endocrine disorders should be tested for high cholesterol and triglycerides to evaluate their risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a Clinical Practice ...Full Article
AHCA/NCAL Issues Statement Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout In Long Term Care
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...
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The Ad Council And The Covid Collaborative Announce A New Resource Designed To Address Healthcare Professionals' Questions About Covid-19 Vaccination
The Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative announced a new resource designed to address healthcare professionals' questions about COVID-19 vaccination. The videos [link]–which...Full Article
A Safety Precautions Protocol Reduces Self-Harm For At-Risk Patients In The Emergency Department
Emergency department (ED) boarding of patients with psychiatric illness is a critical issue.(1) These patients are twice as likely as medical patients to require inpatient adm...Full Article
ANA Condemns Violence at US Capitol
On January 6, 2021, violent rioters stormed the United States Capitol building during the ratification of the 2020 Presidential election. The following statement is attributab...
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Nurse Finds Her Niche - New Faculty Member Will Help Create a Psychiatric-Mental Health Specialization in UCI’s D.N.P. Program
It was during her last rotation as a nursing student, at an outpatient program for severely mentally ill patients, that Dawn Bounds found her calling. Now, as she begins a new...Full Article
11 Tips to Help Children Process the Storming of the Capitol Building
Since mid-afternoon on January 6th, 2021, the news has focused on little else than the storming of the US Capitol Building and the Presidential certification process. We as Am...
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Study Finds Over 80 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Have Vitamin D Deficiency
Over 80 percent of 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical En...Full Article
FDA Grants 3B Medical Emergency Use for Lumin UV System Use in Nursing Homes, Ambulatory Care and Primary Care for SARS-CoV-2 N95 Re-Use
3B Medical announced receiving Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA to permit use of Lumin, a UVC system, on N95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lumin was design...Full Article
IAEA Director General Grossi Warns about Health Impact of Delayed Cancer Care During Pandemic
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned today that the global COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting key health services ...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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Cancer Treatment Without Side Effects? UCI, Swiss Researchers Eliminate Brain Tumors Without Damaging Cognition
Treating cancer without debilitating side effects has long been the holy grail of oncologists, and researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Switzerland’s Lausan...Full Article
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
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
Mechanical Engineering® Magazine Announces Winners of 2020 Emerging Technology Awards - Focus on Innovative Technologies in Response to COVID-19
For the fourth consecutive year, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)’s Mechanical Engineering® magazine considered dozens of recent innovations and planned to ...Full Article
