CDC to fund LTC infection control strike teams nationwide starting in October
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 20, 2021
The initiative will allow states and other U.S. jurisdictions to “staff, train and deploy” strike teams to help long-term care operations with known or suspected COVID-19 infections, CDC says.
The COVID race: Vaccines 90% effective in frontline workers, but variant cases rising
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 30, 2021
The pace of U.S. vaccinations must hold up against the effects of spreading virus variants to keep further outbreaks under control, according to the CDC and expert observers.
Analysis: Medication adherence spotty among U.S. diabetes patients
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 01, 2023
A sizable percentage of patients with diabetes do not consistently take prescribed medications to lower cholesterol, glucose or blood pressure, investigators say.
FDA advisers endorse bivalent vaccine for all COVID mRNA shots
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 27, 2023
A panel of experts on Thursday agreed that the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines should be used as both initial and booster shots, phasing out the original vaccines.
Geriatrician survey: Swift telehealth adoption was ‘instrumental’ to pandemic patient care
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 18, 2022
Responses by Genesis HealthCare physicians offer insight into the dramatic shift in care delivery that took place as COVID-19 raged in 2020.
Juniper CEO: Restoring ‘new normal’ in senior living is about COVID lessons learned
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 03, 2020
Juniper Communities created an early COVID-19 battle plan using cohorting and universal testing. Today the majority of its communities are testing 100% negative for the virus, says founder and CEO Lynne...
Follow-up visits after falls are lacking, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 22, 2023
Experiencing a fall can be traumatic enough, but a new study showed that what happens afterward is equally challenging. In short, not everyone who is injured in a fall receives the care they need after...
Educating neurologists, using telehealth improves outcomes in Parkinson’s
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 14, 2023
A new study looks at palliative care for people living with Parkinson’s disease and related disorders and found that educating neurologists and using telehealth is feasible to improve outcomes for people...
Protein therapy may help heal scars caused by heart attack
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 02, 2020
Protein therapy leads to improved heart function after heart attack, according to a preclinical Australian study.
Common autoimmune drugs reduce mortality, up clinical status in COVID-19: NIH
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 06, 2022
Two commonly used autoimmune drugs could be used in addition to standard-of-care treatments to improve COVID-19 outcomes, the agency says.