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Poll: Reduced activity during the pandemic may have increased older adults' fall risk

The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased older adults' risk of falling and injuring themselves, due to changes in physical activity, conditioning and mobility, a new national poll suggests.

3 Aug 2021

Study conducts systematic review of the pre- and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Researchers at Oxford University, UK, have conducted a systematic review of the available studies to address the role of presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

3 Aug 2021

New model can help clinicians to predict 40-day mortality risk in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Researchers from Hackensack Meridian University Medical Center and Berry Consultants, LLC, Austin, Texas have developed a new model to help clinicians predict the risk of death within 40 days in patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19 infection.

2 Aug 2021

Poor wellbeing of healthcare employees reflects in patient satisfaction

Intensified job demands create serious risks to the wellbeing of employees. In healthcare, employee wellbeing is also reflected in patient satisfaction. Under a heavy workload, even positive challenges such as learning new things are experienced as increased stress.

2 Aug 2021

Improving patient monitoring and alarm management strategies in burn intensive care units

The combination of injured skin, specialized medical care and the need to continuously monitor critically ill patients with burn injuries can make alarm management a significant challenge for burn units.

2 Aug 2021

12,000 square miles without obstetrics? It’s a possibility in West Texas

The message from Big Bend Regional Medical Center was stark: The only hospital in a sparsely populated region of far West Texas notified local physicians last month that because of a nursing shortage its labor and delivery unit needed to temporarily close its doors and that women in labor should instead be sent to the next closest hospital — an hour's drive away.

2 Aug 2021

Older adults with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection benefit from two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

The study by researchers from the Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain, published in the Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, suggests that long-term care facility residents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection benefit from full vaccination with the Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccine.

2 Aug 2021

Facing recall, Newsom draws support from health care allies

Californians upset with Gov. Gavin Newsom's pandemic rules — which shuttered businesses, kept schoolkids at home and mandated masks — helped fuel the September recall election that could spell the end of his political career.

30 Jul 2021

Amid covid booster debate, West Virginia to check immunity of vaccinated nursing home residents

West Virginia raced ahead of the country last winter to get people in nursing homes vaccinated against covid-19, but with cases and hospitalizations on the rise again, state officials want to know whether immunity levels are falling for residents who had their shots.

30 Jul 2021

Two new proteins identified as therapeutic targets for preventing NAFLD and associated liver cancer

An international study led by the Lipids&Liver research team at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, the results of which have recently been published in the prestigious journal Cancer Research, has demonstrated that inhibiting either of the proteins E2F1 or E2F2 in the liver protects against the development of obesity-driven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its progression to cancer.

29 Jul 2021

Is it possible to identify pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 clinically?

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted morbidity and mortality in nursing home residents across the world. Earlier detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may help better mitigate the risk of viral transmission. As both pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission is common in these outbreaks, screening for threshold temperatures of 38°C or higher could miss timely detection in most infected people.

29 Jul 2021

Mental health consequences of the pandemic for medical personnel

Physicians, nursing staff, medical technical assistants, and pastoral workers in hospitals: they have all been placed under severe strain by the Covid-19 pandemic.

28 Jul 2021

COVID-19 lockdown negatively impacted Indian women's nutrition, study shows

The 2020 nationwide lockdown India imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions that negatively impacted women's nutrition, according to a new study from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.

28 Jul 2021

People with OSA have greater risk of sudden death and cardiovascular conditions

A study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers reveals that people living with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition that occurs when a person's airway becomes blocked while they are asleep, are twice as likely to experience sudden death compared to people living without OSA.

28 Jul 2021

Analysis of DNA tags could advance the understanding and treatment of many cancers

Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shed into the blood was discovered in the late 1940s but with rapid advances in genomics and computational analytics in just the past few years, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center now believe that studying tags, or modifications to this type of DNA, may lead to a better understanding of how to assess, and possibly modulate, treatment approaches for cancer and other diseases.

27 Jul 2021

More popular type of antihypertensive drugs causes slightly more side effects

Two types of drugs that are recommended as a first treatment for patients with high blood pressure were found equally effective in improving cardiovascular outcomes, but the more popular type causes slightly more side effects, finds a multinational observational study led by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

26 Jul 2021

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Latest Nursing News and Research

Poll: Reduced activity during the pandemic may have increased older adults' fall risk

Study conducts systematic review of the pre- and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 transmission

New model can help clinicians to predict 40-day mortality risk in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Poor wellbeing of healthcare employees reflects in patient satisfaction

Improving patient monitoring and alarm management strategies in burn intensive care units

12,000 square miles without obstetrics? It’s a possibility in West Texas

Older adults with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection benefit from two doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

Facing recall, Newsom draws support from health care allies

Amid covid booster debate, West Virginia to check immunity of vaccinated nursing home residents

Two new proteins identified as therapeutic targets for preventing NAFLD and associated liver cancer

Is it possible to identify pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 clinically?

Mental health consequences of the pandemic for medical personnel

COVID-19 lockdown negatively impacted Indian women's nutrition, study shows

People with OSA have greater risk of sudden death and cardiovascular conditions

Analysis of DNA tags could advance the understanding and treatment of many cancers

More popular type of antihypertensive drugs causes slightly more side effects

Better healthcare processes can reduce the risk of delirium among elderly patients

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center part of promising phase 2 lymphoma clinical trial

Nurses face increased likelihood of burnout during COVID-19, reports study

Study evaluates ICU workers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

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