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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
Survey: 87% of COVID Tests for Nursing Home Residents & Staff Taking Multiple Days or More to Process
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) conducted a survey of 1,385 members from June 25-29, 2020 on COVID-19 testing of staff at l...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
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
How Nurses Will Shape the Future of Healthcare
As we emerge from the worst days of COVID-19, it is clear the future of healthcare will look different than anything we’ve seen before. What is less known and celebrated, even...Full Article
RespectAbility’s VP of Communications Awarded Roddenberry Foundation Impact Award
Announced on the first day of RespectAbility’s Summer Lab, RespectAbility’s Vice President of Communications Lauren Appelbaum was announced as a recipient of The Roddenberry F...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
After $4.7 Billion federal bailout, largest hospital corporation in America threatens brutal cuts for caregivers
In a quickly unfolding set of developments seemingly made for Hollywood, HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), a Fortune 100 company and the largest for-profit hospital corporation in t...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
How cells solve their identity crisis
Cancer is often the result of DNA mutations or problems with how cells divide, which can lead to cells “forgetting” what type of cell they are or how to function properly. Now...Full Article
A Determined Descendant and a Navy Hospital's Response to COVID-19
On a Thursday morning at Memorial Hospital in Fremont, Ohio, Emil Althoff became one of at least 50 million estimated to die from the H1N1 flu virus in the deadliest pandemic ...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
Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Can Last for Years, Nurses Ask U.S. Administration for Help
Gravely concerned about the psychological health and well-being of nurses and other healthcare professionals serving on the pandemic's frontline of care, leaders of the nation...Full Article
