Just 1% of nursing homes throughout the United States say they are currently fully staffed, according to a new survey by the AHCA/NCAL.
New CDC vaccine access info covers COVID booster shots, ‘safety net’ support
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
With assurances to provide help as needed, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is sharing vaccine access information ahead of the federal COVID-19 vaccine booster shot approvals expected to come...
Medicare and Medicaid recipients, minorities receive more low-value, aggressive cancer care at end of...
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
Investigators found that people of Black and Asian or Pacific Islander race, Hispanic ethnicity, with public insurance status, and who were admitted to an urban teaching hospital were more likely to receive...
Llama antibodies have ‘significant potential’ for treating COVID, UK health officials say
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
Llama antibodies have shown resounding success in early efficacy trials in animals. If developed into a drug for humans, they could be administered using a nebulizer or nasal spray, investigators say.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 23
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
CDC advisers predict decline in coronavirus cases and deaths this fall … Antidiabetic treatment requires improvements to lower hypoglycemia risk in elders … Study pinpoints unmet clinical care needs...
‘Exceedingly difficult’ to control COVID inside facilities when virus rages outside, LTC experts...
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 22, 2021
Long-term care operators located in areas of high COVID-19 prevalence are hamstrung when it comes to keeping SARS-CoV-2 infections from infiltrating their facilities, the country’s top long-term care...
Docs miss — or opt to dismiss — signs of pulmonary embolism in dementia patients, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 22, 2021
Physicians appear to place lower importance on factors that may lead to diagnosis of pulmonary embolism when evaluating patients with dementia who present with shortness of breath, investigators say.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Sept. 22
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 22, 2021
New data show J&J’s COVID vaccine 94 percent effective with a second dose, company says … Feds partner with AMDA in $10.5M immunization campaign … One in three caregivers say they’ll refuse COVID...
CMS unveils new tool for public to compare nursing home vaccination rates
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Danielle Brown
Sep 21, 2021
Individual nursing homes’ COVID-19 vaccination rates are more subject to public comparisons thanks to a new tool from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The goal is to make previously available...
First biosimilar approved by FDA to treat common eye degeneration in elders
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 21, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a less expensive copy of the blockbuster drug Lucentis for treating age-related (wet) macular degeneration and several other eye conditions.