One in every five adults aged more than 60 years takes fish oil supplements, despite many warnings that they have no benefit for heart health. A new study sheds light on what the product labels say that...
Study seeks to shed light on COVID-19’s impact on the brain
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John Roszkowski
Sep 23, 2022
A global consortium of researchers is seeking to uncover the short-term and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the brain to assess whether it can lead to cognitive impairments later in life such as Alzheimer’s...
Immigration reemerges as workforce solution in scattershot Senate hearing
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 17, 2023
An overwhelmed healthcare workforce, the implications of ongoing shortages and fears about a stressed pipeline took center stage during a Senate hearing Thursday.
Presidential advisers push White House to prioritize patient safety
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Kristen Fischer
Sep 12, 2023
The White House should create a national patient safety team to help reduce high levels of dangerous care in the medical system, presidential advisers recommended on Sept. 8.
Disadvantages, understaffing combine to ratchet up nursing homes’ antipsychotic reliance: study
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Josh Henreckson
Apr 25, 2024
Nursing homes in disadvantaged neighborhoods are more likely to rely on antipsychotics, especially when understaffed, compared to those in more affluent areas, according to a new study in Jama Network...
Report endorses adding more nursing home residents in clinical trials, shares framework to do so
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
A commentary published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on March 14 talks about the need for clinical trials among people living in nursing homes.
CDC: Health facilities were site of over 50 percent of drinking water outbreaks between 2015-2020
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 15, 2024
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published Thursday revealed that pathogens including legionella and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are the top causes of waterborne disease...
Treatment patterns, not genetics, drive prostate cancer disparities, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
May 29, 2023
Prostate cancer, which affects 1 in 11 men aged 70 and older, has some of the largest disparities in outcomes across all cancer types, investigators say.
NIH: Temperature-stable TB vaccine found safe, effective in trial
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 07, 2023
A temperature-stable tuberculosis vaccine that lasts for months in storage is safe and effective in healthy adults, according to the results of a new trial.
Exercise tied to improved cognition in stroke survivors
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 19, 2022
Exercise significantly improves clinical measures of cognitive function in adults who have experienced a stroke, investigators report.