NIH: Home Test to Treat program to go national, cover COVID-19 and flu
By
Liza Berger
Dec 07, 2023
The National Institutes of Health disclosed on Wednesday that the federal government has expanded its COVID-19 Home Test to Treat program nationally. The program began as a pilot in select locations earlier...
The introduction of a Senate bill intended to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing its proposed nursing home staffing mandate was met roundly with applause from providers...
Doing well by doing good has certainly proven true for Lynne Katzmann.
Clinical briefs for Monday, Nov. 20
Nov 20, 2023
New study highlights urgent need for specific biomarkers in vascular cognitive impairment and dementia diagnosis … $3.9 million NIH grant supports research on effects of integrated palliative care on...
Clinical briefs for Monday, May 8
By
Alicia Lasek
May 08, 2023
Pneumonia, not cytokine storm, a key driver of COVID-19 deaths: study … Assisted living held up as solution to ‘loneliness epidemic’ … CDC: Cigarette smoking at its lowest since 1965, least common...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, May 30
By
Alicia Lasek
May 29, 2023
CDC: COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths continue downward trend …Large study pinpoints 12 key symptoms of long COVID … Adults aged 70+ at risk of new post-COVID mental disorders … NIH: Inclusion of...
Also in the News for Wednesday, May 10
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 10, 2023
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. plans to sell its final skilled nursing assets … Nursing home wound care consultant settles False Claims case … New GAO report adds to criticism of costly, trouble-plagued...
Nursing homes find visitor COVID-19 testing back in play
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 22, 2022
Health officials in at least one major US city are once again asking nursing home visitors to take COVID tests before entering, as community transmission there has ticked dangerously high this month.
Clinical briefs for Monday, March 25
By
John Roszkowski
Mar 25, 2024
Long genes linked to aging … Fat buildup in brain cells may cause Alzheimer’s … Drug shows no benefit for dry age-related macular degeneration in NIH trial … Neurologic disease may be higher for...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Dec. 1
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 01, 2022
Drug overdoses in seniors climb between 2000 and 2020 … Predictive clinical tool determines 5, 9 and 13-year risk of dementia … Remdesivir and corticosteroids tied to better COVID acute-care outcomes...