Medicare and Medicaid recipients, minorities receive more low-value, aggressive cancer care at end of...
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
Investigators found that people of Black and Asian or Pacific Islander race, Hispanic ethnicity, with public insurance status, and who were admitted to an urban teaching hospital were more likely to receive...
Llama antibodies have ‘significant potential’ for treating COVID, UK health officials say
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
Llama antibodies have shown resounding success in early efficacy trials in animals. If developed into a drug for humans, they could be administered using a nebulizer or nasal spray, investigators say.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 23
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
CDC advisers predict decline in coronavirus cases and deaths this fall … Antidiabetic treatment requires improvements to lower hypoglycemia risk in elders … Study pinpoints unmet clinical care needs...
Docs miss — or opt to dismiss — signs of pulmonary embolism in dementia patients, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 22, 2021
Physicians appear to place lower importance on factors that may lead to diagnosis of pulmonary embolism when evaluating patients with dementia who present with shortness of breath, investigators say.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Sept. 22
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 22, 2021
New data show J&J’s COVID vaccine 94 percent effective with a second dose, company says … Feds partner with AMDA in $10.5M immunization campaign … One in three caregivers say they’ll refuse COVID...
First biosimilar approved by FDA to treat common eye degeneration in elders
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 21, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a less expensive copy of the blockbuster drug Lucentis for treating age-related (wet) macular degeneration and several other eye conditions.
CDC: Lasting COVID-19 symptoms tied to age, sex, race factors
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 21, 2021
Investigators examined recovered COVID-19 patients in Long Beach California. Fully one third of participants reported having at least one symptom of post-acute sequelae, commonly called “long COVID-19,”...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Sept. 21
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 21, 2021
Humana reports rise in seniors’ COVID hospitalizations … Moderna shot leads pack at preventing COVID hospitalization, CDC finds … Experts unsure what flu has in store for this season … Drug combo...
CDC to fund LTC infection control strike teams nationwide starting in October
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 20, 2021
The initiative will allow states and other U.S. jurisdictions to “staff, train and deploy” strike teams to help long-term care operations with known or suspected COVID-19 infections, CDC says.
FDA panel recommends COVID boosters for older adults, healthcare workers
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 20, 2021
An FDA advisory panel has unanimously recommended approving COVID-19 booster shots for adults aged 65 years and older and for individuals at high risk of severe disease, including healthcare workers.