‘Pain champions’ in nursing homes spur better adoption of guidelines: study
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 30, 2021
Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of specially trained registered nurses, a study in Sweden has found.
Extra sleep reduces healthcare workers’ COVID risk; burnout has opposite effect
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 24, 2021
One hour longer sleep duration at night is linked to 12% lower odds of contracting COVID-19. And workers who report feeling burned out every day are more likely to become infected and have longer symptom...
What providers can learn from the first US coronavirus outbreak
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 19, 2020
Long-term care staff inadvertently spread coronavirus between facilities in the early days of the first U.S. outbreak in Washington.
About 40% of US adults risk developing serious COVID-19 illness
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 19, 2020
While most adults will recover without needing special treatment, chronic disease puts millions at high risk of poor outcomes, say researchers.
More U.S. adults using melatonin as sleep aid despite lack of evidence
Mar 04, 2022
Use of the supplement melatonin by U.S. adults has more than quintupled between 1999 and 2018, a new study has found.
COVID test turnaround time tops 2 days for a third of nursing homes, data show
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 13, 2020
Among 13,000 facilities that provided their testing speed to the government, only 17% reported an average turnaround time of less than a day; and fully 29% waited three days or more on average for residents’...
Adults 65 and older are in a lot of pain, particularly back pain, CDC learns
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 30, 2021
Nearly 60% of adults reported experiencing chronic physical pain in 2019, with seniors having much of the burden. Women, non-Hispanic white adults, and people with incomes well below the poverty line were...
Muscle relaxant prescriptions have tripled for older adults, investigators find
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 30, 2020
Clinicians may be prescribing the drugs as an opioid alternative for chronic pain management, propose the researchers. Opioids are often prescribed simultaneously, they found.
Slow music shows promise for ventilator patients
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 10, 2020
Intubated individuals who listened to slow-tempo music had fewer days of delirium and less need for sedative drugs, according to researchers.
Fauci and colleagues: Expect a diagnostic challenge this flu season — and stress vaccine education
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Alicia Lasek
Oct 02, 2020
A winter featuring flu and COVID-19 may create a diagnostic muddle for clinicians, said NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in a Thursday news conference. There is a pressing need to educate patients about getting...