The next hospital crisis may be dementia behavioral emergencies, psychiatrist says … Neurologists prescribing Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm talk about practices and payments … Patients with diabetes may...
COVID vaccine mandate will survive legal challenges, experts believe
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Kimberly Marselas
Danielle Brown
Nov 10, 2021
The Biden administration is confident that legal challenges to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers will ultimately fail, and legal experts are largely in agreement. As a result, they are...
Only 1 of Philadelphia’s 47 facilities has not complied with city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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Danielle Brown
Nov 10, 2021
And then there was one. Just a single nursing home out of the 47 facilities located in Philadelphia has not yet complied with the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for frontline workers.
SNF-linked wound clinics saw fewer patients during pandemic but unchanged outcomes
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 10, 2021
Investigators expected that wound outcomes would be adversely affected by pandemic disruptions. But data from hundreds of wound care clinics in the United States show otherwise.
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine highly effective in octo- and nonagenarians, German study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 10, 2021
The data, from 700,000 older residents of Bavaria, resolves questions about the vaccine’s protectiveness that weren’t answered by the drugmaker’s clinical trials, investigators say.
Listening to favorite music may improve cognitive function of Alzheimer’s patients
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 10, 2021
Music that holds a special meaning stimulates the brains of Alzheimer’s patients in key areas, a new study finds. The results support personalized, music-based interventions for people with dementia,...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Nov. 10
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 10, 2021
Legal challenges aside, senior living operators advised to prepare for COVID-19 vaccine mandate … Patient treated with Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab has six brain abnormality episodes … Feds invest...
COVID-19 vaccine mandate for surveyors? CMS clarifies
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Danielle Brown
Nov 09, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans on issuing COVID-19 vaccination guidance covering surveyors charged with inspecting nursing homes, an agency spokesperson confirmed.
COVID reductions ‘only half the equation’ in CareTrust recovery
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Danielle Brown
Nov 09, 2021
CareTrust REIT’s mid-year concerns about the potential effects of delta variant infections on census recovery have all but disappeared, with executives reporting strong, third-quarter skilled nursing...
One shot of REGEN-COV prevents COVID infection for 8 months, clinical trial finds
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 09, 2021
A single dose delivered by subcutaneous injection cut the 8-month risk of contracting COVID-19 by 82% — nearly the same rate of protection found at one month, the company announced Monday.