CDC’s social media toolkit tackles COVID-19 vaccination education
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2021
LTC providers can use a new set of pre-written social media messages and digital images to encourage staff and residents to learn more about COVID-19 vaccine safety and benefits.
FDA: Viral mutations unlikely to cause false negatives in COVID-19 tests
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2021
The agency has alerted healthcare providers that it is monitoring approved SARS-CoV-2 molecular tests to ensure that new viral mutations do not alter their accuracy.
Vitamins C and E linked to 32 percent lower risk of Parkinson’s in large study
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2021
Investigators looked for a link between dietary antioxidants and Parkinson’s risk in more than 41,000 adults in a long-term Swedish public health study.
Clinical briefs for Monday, Jan. 11
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2021
ASHA urges governors to advocate for independent living residents in vaccine plans … HHS renews public health emergency due to COVID-19 … CDC: Consider confirming COVID-19 status with a PCR test in...
Adjuvanted vaccine cuts nursing home flu outbreaks by 17 percent, top researcher reports
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 08, 2021
Facilities that offered residents the strengthened influenza vaccine Fluad experienced a 17% reduction in suspected and laboratory-confirmed influenza outbreaks, says Vince Mor, Ph.D.
Sleep disorders common after stroke; older survivors at special risk: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 08, 2021
Fully 41% of people who had strokes or mini-strokes had insomnia immediately after the event, and nearly that many still had trouble sleeping more than three months later, according to a new review.
Strength training tailored to older men and women maximizes benefits, physiologists say
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 08, 2021
Older men and women may be better served by a resistance training program that recognizes sex differences in how and where they build muscle, a new analysis finds.
Clinical briefs for Friday, Jan. 8
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 08, 2021
CDC: cases of severe reaction to COVID vaccines are rare … Statins underused in older adults with heart failure and dementia … HHS announces $22 billion in funding to support expanded national testing...
Vaccination pace to speed up in long-term care; focus is now on uptake, advocate says
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 07, 2021
Encouraging uptake among staff and residents should be LTC administrators’ goal as the vaccination program ramps up, according to the AHCA / NCAL.
Antibiotics overused in COVID-19 patients, analysis finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 07, 2021
Fully three quarters of COVID-19 patients receive antibiotics, although fewer than 10% have a bacterial infection, according to a new research review.