J&J delaying vaccine trials due to ‘unexplained illness’
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 14, 2020
Late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trials by Johnson & Johnson have been temporarily halted due to an “unexplained illness in a study participant,” the company reported Monday.
Feds scramble to boost availability of COVID-19 tests
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 15, 2020
The House has passed a bill that includes Medicare waivers to allow free testing for all, while the White House has funded fast-track test development.
California nursing home visitors must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 12, 2021
The state is requiring that all indoor visitors to skilled nursing facilities and other healthcare settings prove full vaccination or negative SARS-CoV-2 test results. Facility operators must have a plan...
Music intervention rejuvenates certain regions of the older brain: study
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 24, 2023
Listening to music and playing a musical instrument may help to avert brain aging in the areas related to these actions, researchers in Switzerland and Germany have found.
Q&A: Clinical best practices when gauging residents’ end-of-life preferences — a POLST expert weighs...
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 29, 2021
There’s a clear need to improve the quality of Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, in nursing homes, says Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. An expert on the subject, she spoke with...
Bracelet may help predict dementia-related agitation
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 26, 2019
A location-monitoring bracelet developer has received an NIH grant to study whether its device can detect agitation in seniors with dementia.
Nursing home residents consume too many inflammation-causing foods, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 30, 2023
There is room for improvement in the diets of nursing home residents who consume a high proportion of foods linked to inflammation, according to a new study of data across 32 nursing homes.
Study links diet to late-stage eye disease
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 11, 2019
People who follow a Western-style diet are three times more likely to develop late-stage macular degeneration, say researchers.
All nursing home staff in Massachusetts must get COVID-19 shots
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 05, 2021
The state is requiring staff and contract employees in all of its 378 facilities to receive a vaccination, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday.
Small building proponents embrace Biden’s nursing home overhaul plan
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 07, 2022
The proposed phase-out of multiple-occupancy rooms is crucial to helping prevent uncontrolled infectious disease outbreaks, the Green House Project says.