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CDC: Nursing home workers, residents likely prioritized for future COVID vaccinations
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 28, 2020
The agency has proposed guidelines for prioritizing who receives future COVID-19 vaccinations, highlighting nursing home employees in particular.
FDA approves $5 rapid-results COVID antigen test
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 28, 2020
The test involves a credit-card-sized device that functions like some pregnancy tests. The developer expects to begin shipping large quantities in September.
Socially isolated elderly more prone to hospital, emergency department admission
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 28, 2020
A lack of social support may lead to poor health and reliance on emergency departments as a source of referrals to non-emergent care, researchers say.
Clinical briefs for Friday, Aug. 28
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 28, 2020
State’s reopening recommendations eschew social distancing in specific cases … Nutrition guidelines updated in chronic kidney disease … Age-related brain changes may lead to impulsive decisions,...
CDC changes guidance: Some asymptomatic people may not need COVID test
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 27, 2020
The agency has posted new COVID-19 testing guidance indicating that some people without symptoms may not need to be tested — even following contact with an infected person.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, August 27
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 27, 2020
Feds to deliver more than 1 million N95 respirators to nursing homes … Nursing homes now required to test all staff members for COVID-19 … FDA drops boxed warning on diabetes drug Invokana … Hydroxychloroquine...
LTC pharmacies seek key role in COVID vaccine distribution
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 27, 2020
Long-term care pharmacies now have a voice in federal decisions about COVID vaccine delivery to nursing homes and assisted living communities, says the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.
Reducing pain ‘catastrophizing’ may help older adults kick sedentary behavior
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 27, 2020
Many chronic pain patients avoid physical activities that they are actually capable of doing, researchers have found. Changing thought patterns may help halt a downward pain spiral, they say.
Question hangs over rapid antigen test equipment program: Can it support new CMS regulations?
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 26, 2020
The new devices are intended for testing symptomatic patients within five days of symptom onset. How this scenario will fit into CMS’s new regulations for testing staff and residents remains to be...