Healthcare worker study finds 27 percent developed long COVID
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 07, 2023
Fully 20% of workers across a healthcare system developed long COVID after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Investigators have pinpointed key factors that may have heightened their risk.
Consider 6-month falls risk in senior heart attack survivors, investigators say
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 16, 2021
Fully 22% of study participants reported a fall and about 6% had a medically serious fall within six months of hospitalization for a heart attack. Falls in these patients were linked to readily identified...
Overtreated diabetes raises hypoglycemia risk in nursing homes, investigators say
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 24, 2022
Fully 40% of residents with type 2 diabetes in a large VA nursing home study continued to receive insulin and other medications that increase hypoglycemia risk, even after their blood tests suggested overtreatment.
Nearly all staff are vaccinated in majority of Connecticut’s long-term care facilities
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 19, 2021
One state is experiencing success with its COVID-19 vaccination mandate: Fully three quarters of LTC facilities in Connecticut have a 95% staff vaccination rate, its Department of Public Health announced...
One in 10 may have active virus after 10-day quarantine: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 19, 2022
Fully 13% of study participants had clinically relevant levels of the SARS-CoV-2 virus after 10 days. The findings may be particularly concerning for vulnerable populations such as nursing facility residents,...
Nurses ranked as ‘most honest and ethical’ professionals for 21st year in row
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2023
Nurses have again reached the top spot in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll. Fully 79% of respondents said that nurses have “very high” or “high” honesty and ethical standards,...
FDA may grant Pfizer vaccine full approval by Labor Day: report
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 05, 2021
The nationwide rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible delta strain has spurred the agency move quickly, sources told The New York Times.
CDC issues new COVID infection prevention and control guidance for nursing homes
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 15, 2021
A CDC Project Firstline webinar will answer clinicians’ questions on the updates, which include alternative approaches to outbreak response;
expanded screening test recommendations for healthcare...
Americans’ high trust in doctors, nurses could strengthen vaccination push, pollsters say
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 12, 2021
Fully 7 in 10 Americans trust their doctors, nurses and pharmacists to “do what’s right for them and their families either most or all of the time,” the researchers say. The findings cut across political...
AARP calls on nursing homes to require COVID-19 boosters for residents, staff
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 21, 2022
COVID-19 infections are at an all-time high among residents and staff and resident death rates are rising. Now is the time to “get shots in arms,” AARP leaders urged operators.