Month: September 2022

A statement by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), published online on September 14 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, offers healthcare providers guidelines on how to prevent inappropriate antibiotic use in future pandemics and avoid some of the negative scenarios that have been seen with COVID-19. According to the US Centers of Disease Control
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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers hypothesized various scenarios of travel restrictions to estimate the potential global risk of monkeypox virus (MPXV) importation. Study: Impact of airline travel network on the global importation risk of monkeypox, 2022. Image Credit: Song_about_summer/Shutterstock Background Related Stories The World Health Organization (WHO)
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The theme for this year’s Peer Review Week is ‘research integrity’ – that really strikes a chord with our new columnists… As we mark peer review week – it’s good to take time to reflect on how pivotal the process is in maintaining the quality of research. This year’s theme, Research Integrity: creating and supporting
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We’re buying 25 shares of Danaher (DHR) at roughly $272.79 each. Following Tuesday’s trade, Jim’s Charitable Trust will own 510 shares of Danaher, increasing its weighting in the portfolio to 4.96% from 4.73%. We’re also buying 100 shares of TJX Companies (TJX) at roughly $63.04 each. Following Tuesday’s trade, the Trust will down 950 shares
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Maternal depressive symptoms were associated with an increase in the number of unhealthy adolescent behaviors, a 15-year longitudinal study showed. While unhealthy behaviors were found to be common among adolescents in general, with two out of three engaging in at least one, higher levels of maternal depressive symptoms during a child’s middle childhood and adolescence
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CNN  —  Even as the US prepares for a potential winter surge of Covid-19, President Biden roamed the cavernous halls of the Detroit Auto Show for an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and, gesturing to the mostly maskless attendees, told the nation, “the pandemic is over.” “We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still
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New Haven, Connecticut — Sing “Happy Birthday”? Recite the ABCs? Count 20 seconds? What’s the best way to ensure the effectiveness of hand washing? Maintaining good hand hygiene practices remains key to preventing the spread of pathogens in the healthcare setting and beyond. However, hand hygiene habits have long proven resistant to change among healthcare
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Autophagy is a self-degradation process that cells use to remove unneeded or damaged components. There are several forms of autophagy, including macroautophagy, which is a bulk degradation system used to target materials in the cell’s cytosol to organelles called lysosomes for enzymatic breakdown. However, even lysosomes themselves sometimes need to be degraded. Recently, Osaka University
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Welcome back to this special series featuring the stories of the Senior Planet Sponsored Athletes as they pursue their fitness goals in 2022. You can find all of our Sponsored Athletes’ stories here.  Carolyn Hartfield, 74, is an Outdoor Adventure Leader, but it wasn’t always that way. Read on to learn about Carolyn’s journey from
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While the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, the U.S. continues to face a national health challenge – the effective and equitable care of individuals with Long COVID. While the federal government is responding to this condition, few of their undertakings directly address clinical care and the potential of disability compensation. To ensure the effective and equitable care
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ADHD patients may experience a drug shortage of Adderall as some pharmacies across the U.S. are having difficulties securing the prescription drug due to supply chain issues. Adderall is a commonly used medication for treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). CVS Health and Walgreens have had to tell patients that Adderall was out of stock with wait
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Can AI Detect COVID-19 by Voice? New research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to diagnose patients with COVID-19 by voice. AI speech analysis has already shown that it can help detect other diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, posttraumatic stress disorder, dementia, and heart disease. At least half a dozen studies have looked at
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Migraine is genetic neurologic disease which often goes undiagnosed. Sometimes migraine headaches come with pain so intense they can interrupt day-to-day activities. The good news says Dr. Amaal Starling, a Mayo Clinic neurologist, is there are newer migraine headache treatment options available that are more effective and better tolerated. ____________________________________________ For the safety of its
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“Too many governments have failed to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and transparency, too many people — often influenced by misinformation — have disrespected and protested against basic public health precautions, and the world’s major powers have failed to collaborate to control the pandemic,” the commissioners wrote. The World Health Organization says there
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Two-year clinical outcomes are improved with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) guided by quantitative flow ratio (QFR) rather than angiography, according to new results from the FAVOR III China trial. “A QFR-guided strategy of lesion selection for PCI improved 2-year clinical outcomes compared with standard angiography guidance, with incrementally increasing benefits over time,” said Lei Song,
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