‘Another layer of protection’: Senior care industry commends feds’ booster vaccine decision
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 27, 2021
Industry advocates are welcoming the decision to include residents of long-term care settings and healthcare workers in a new federal recommendation to offer COVID-19 booster shots to at-risk adults.
WHO: Antibody treatment most beneficial for seniors, the unvaccinated, and immunocompromised
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 27, 2021
The World Health Organization’s new guidance for using the REGEN-COV monoclonal antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19 covers a narrower group of patients than those included in the FDA’s updated...
Clinical briefs for Monday, Sept. 27
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 27, 2021
Current staff vaccination rate not good enough to protect nursing home residents … ProMedica’s new social health initiative highlights senior care, pandemic ‘lessons learned’ … Biden under pressure...
CDC chief endorses COVID booster shots for nursing home residents, healthcare workers
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 24, 2021
Older and medically compromised adults and workers in high-risk settings should be offered third doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., said early Friday. Her decision...
Adopt new test, and take race out of kidney disease diagnostics, clinicians urged
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 24, 2021
Fewer Black patients will be left unaware of their true kidney function status if their healthcare providers switch to a diagnostic test that doesn’t rely on a race variable, according to a new report...
New CDC vaccine access info covers COVID booster shots, ‘safety net’ support
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
With assurances to provide help as needed, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is sharing vaccine access information ahead of the federal COVID-19 vaccine booster shot approvals expected to come...
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.