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Johns Hopkins expert addresses the impact of pandemic on surgical innovation pipeline and ecosystem

The COVID-19 pandemic has worked havoc on many aspects of society, health care hardly the least among them. In a new study for the journal Surgical Innovation, Associate Professor Toby Gordon of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School addresses the ways in which the pandemic, as she writes, has "severely weakened the surgical innovation pipeline and ecosystem."

13 May 2021

Hit by higher prices for gear, doctors and dentists want insurers to pay

Treating patients has become more expensive during the pandemic, and doctors and dentists don't want to be on the hook for all the new costs.

5 May 2021

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust first to offer treatment in cancer patients’ homes

One of Europe’s largest cancer centres, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, has become the first in the country to provide a treatment called Phesgo for breast cancer patients in their own homes. Phesgo is a combination of Herceptin

30 Apr 2021

SCAI releases expert consensus statement on best practices in cardiac catheterization lab

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions has released an expert consensus statement providing cardiologists, cath lab directors, and hospital leadership guidance for contemporary cath lab standards.

28 Apr 2021

Big investors push nursing homes to upgrade care and working conditions

Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid pandemic, have taken heat from government regulators, residents and their families. Now the industry is hearing it from an unexpected source: their investors.

27 Apr 2021

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

In March 2020, just weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was scrambling to understand this deadly new disease. It appeared to be killing more Black and brown patients than whites. For Latinos, there was an additional warning sign: language.

27 Apr 2021

Disruptions to essential health services due to COVID-19 pandemic persist in 90% of countries

The second round of a World Health Organization "pulse survey" reveals that over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, substantial disruptions persist, with about 90% of countries still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services, marking no substantial global change since the first survey conducted in the summer of 2020.

23 Apr 2021

Cleaning frequency key to limiting SARS-CoV-2 spread at theme parks

A new preprint research paper provides some insights into how this may be done using computational modeling. The study, which appeared on the medRxiv server, deals with the mitigation strategies that must be implemented in order to contain the virus.

22 Apr 2021

WHO calls for urgent action to improve health for all people

COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between countries. For World Health Day, 7 April 2021, WHO is therefore issuing five calls for urgent action to improve health for all people.

9 Apr 2021

Frontline health workers experienced unprecedented levels of stress during the pandemic

During the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency department doctors, nurses and other frontline staff experienced unprecedented levels of stress and emotional exhaustion that included nightmares or insomnia, according to a UC San Francisco-led study of emergency departments across the country.

9 Apr 2021

Fauci thanks US health workers for sacrifices but admits PPE shortages drove up death toll

Dr. Anthony Fauci thanked America's health care workers, who "every single day put themselves at risk" during the pandemic, even as he acknowledged that PPE shortages had contributed to the deaths of more than 3,600 of them.

9 Apr 2021

World Health Day 2021: The humanitarians building a fairer world

In commemoration of World Health Day 2021, News-Medical interviews the International Medical Corps on how they are helping to achieve a fairer and healthier world.

7 Apr 2021

For this hospice nurse, the Covid shot came too late

Antonio Espinoza loved the Los Angeles Dodgers. He loved them so much that he was laid to rest in his favorite Dodgers jersey. His family and friends, including his 3-year-old son, donned a sea of blue-and-white baseball shirts and caps in his honor.

6 Apr 2021

Role of academic medical centers as field hospitals during emergency situations

By April last year, up to 28 free-standing alternate care sites ranging in size from 50 to 3,000 beds were underway or finished in the U.S.--the Michigan Medicine Field Hospital among them.

31 Mar 2021

Survey: COVID-19 pandemic has led to more advanced-stage cancer diagnoses

Doctors who oversee cancer clinics say that new patients are arriving for treatment with more advanced disease than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

30 Mar 2021

New device set to revolutionize the resuscitation process for first responders

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, performance manufacturer Keela Outdoors, NHS Tayside and Scottish Health Innovations (SHIL), have collaborated to design and develop a device that is set to revolutionize the resuscitation process for first responders.

24 Mar 2021

New 'care bundle' can reduce PPE-related facial injuries in frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers

A study has found that a new 'care bundle' can reduce the incidence of facial pressure injuries in frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers caused by the prolonged wearing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

23 Mar 2021

Personal protective equipment distributed during COVID-19 has biggest environmental impact

According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the carbon footprint of personal protective equipment (PPE) provided to health and social care staff in England during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic was equivalent to flying from London to New York 244 times every day.

18 Mar 2021

COVID-19 pandemic is affecting quality of care given to small and sick newborn babies

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the quality of care given to small and sick newborn babies in all regions of the world and threatening implementation of life-saving interventions, suggests new research published in BMJ Global Health.

16 Mar 2021

COVID-19 pandemic had major impacts on childhood cancer care, shows survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has had major impacts on childhood cancer care worldwide, according to a survey of more than 300 clinicians from 200 hospitals worldwide published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal.

3 Mar 2021

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Johns Hopkins expert addresses the impact of pandemic on surgical innovation pipeline and ecosystem

Hit by higher prices for gear, doctors and dentists want insurers to pay

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust first to offer treatment in cancer patients’ homes

SCAI releases expert consensus statement on best practices in cardiac catheterization lab

Big investors push nursing homes to upgrade care and working conditions

Pandemic imperiled non-English speakers more than others

Disruptions to essential health services due to COVID-19 pandemic persist in 90% of countries

Cleaning frequency key to limiting SARS-CoV-2 spread at theme parks

WHO calls for urgent action to improve health for all people

Frontline health workers experienced unprecedented levels of stress during the pandemic

Fauci thanks US health workers for sacrifices but admits PPE shortages drove up death toll

World Health Day 2021: The humanitarians building a fairer world

For this hospice nurse, the Covid shot came too late

Role of academic medical centers as field hospitals during emergency situations

Survey: COVID-19 pandemic has led to more advanced-stage cancer diagnoses

New device set to revolutionize the resuscitation process for first responders

New 'care bundle' can reduce PPE-related facial injuries in frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers

Personal protective equipment distributed during COVID-19 has biggest environmental impact

COVID-19 pandemic is affecting quality of care given to small and sick newborn babies

COVID-19 pandemic had major impacts on childhood cancer care, shows survey

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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