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Some healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 show unexpectedly low responses to immunizations

A subset of healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 had unexpectedly low responses to the immunizations, according to Cedars-Sinai investigators.

27 Oct 2022

UK hospital study explores whether monkeypox can be transmitted through aerosolized droplets and fomites

Researchers conducted an observational study to determine environmental contamination with the monkeypox virus in the hospital isolation rooms of monkeypox patients to understand potential exposures to healthcare workers.

20 Oct 2022

5 things to know about Montana’s ‘born alive’ ballot initiative

Montana voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve a ballot initiative declaring that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if it survives an abortion or delivery.

20 Oct 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Finally fixing the ‘family glitch’

The Biden administration this week issued regulations aimed at fixing the Affordable Care Act's "family glitch," which has prevented families that can't afford their employer insurance from getting subsidized coverage from the insurance marketplaces.

13 Oct 2022

What is the association of masking behavior with SARS-CoV-2 infection?

A new study evaluated the associations between masking behavior and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

12 Oct 2022

What are the vaccine attributes influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among American parents?

A new study reports the results of a survey among parents in this country, aimed at identifying the primary risk factors for parental vaccine hesitancy.

11 Oct 2022

Miami’s Little Haiti joins global effort to end cervical cancer

More than 300,000 women around the world die from cervical cancer each year. In the U.S., women of Haitian descent are diagnosed with it at higher rates than the general population.

11 Oct 2022

Hospitals have been slow to bring on addiction specialists

In December, Marie, who lives in coastal Swampscott, Massachusetts, began having trouble breathing. Three days after Christmas, she woke up gasping for air and dialed 911.

11 Oct 2022

Traumatic injury rates among outdoor workers found to be higher during periods of high heat

Rates of traumatic injury among workers in the Oregon agricultural and construction sectors are significantly higher during periods of high heat compared with periods of more moderate weather, a recent Oregon State University study found.

29 Sep 2022

Shattered dreams and bills in the millions: Losing a baby in America

The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.

23 Sep 2022

An unusual case of Monkeypox virus transmission by needlestick injury

In a recent study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers described an unusual case of patient-to-healthcare worker (HCW) monkeypox virus (MPXV) transmission via a needlestick injury that occured in Brazil.

21 Sep 2022

Collaborative network wins $8 million grant to identify biomarkers for acute rheumatic fever

A collaborative network led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has received an $8 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to fund a project that will look to identify and validate biomarkers for acute rheumatic fever (ARF).

19 Sep 2022

Healthcare facilities actively partnering with AHHMS vendor achieve greater improvement in hand hygiene performance

A new study by researchers at GOJO Industries, recently published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), demonstrates healthcare facilities that actively partner with their automated hand hygiene monitoring system (AHHMS) vendor are able to achieve greater improvement in hand hygiene performance – a backbone of infection control programs.

9 Sep 2022

Meet Mary Wakefield, the nurse administrator tasked with revamping the CDC

It’s been a rough couple of years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facing a barrage of criticism for repeatedly mishandling its response to the covid-19 pandemic and more recently monkeypox, the agency has acknowledged it failed and needs to change.

6 Sep 2022

Worker News and Research

Some healthcare workers vaccinated against COVID-19 show unexpectedly low responses to immunizations

UK hospital study explores whether monkeypox can be transmitted through aerosolized droplets and fomites

5 things to know about Montana’s ‘born alive’ ballot initiative

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Finally fixing the ‘family glitch’

What is the association of masking behavior with SARS-CoV-2 infection?

What are the vaccine attributes influencing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among American parents?

Miami’s Little Haiti joins global effort to end cervical cancer

Hospitals have been slow to bring on addiction specialists

Traumatic injury rates among outdoor workers found to be higher during periods of high heat

Shattered dreams and bills in the millions: Losing a baby in America

An unusual case of Monkeypox virus transmission by needlestick injury

Collaborative network wins $8 million grant to identify biomarkers for acute rheumatic fever

Healthcare facilities actively partnering with AHHMS vendor achieve greater improvement in hand hygiene performance

Meet Mary Wakefield, the nurse administrator tasked with revamping the CDC

School-aged children can successfully self-swab to obtain COVID-19 test specimen, study finds

Australian women experienced greater financial, psychological impact from COVID-19 pandemic

From book stacks to psychosis and food stamps, librarians confront a new workplace

Grassroots work leads to vaccination success in Georgia refugee community

Haunted for 13 years by debt from childbirth, then rescued by a nonprofit

UH professor seeks to tackle the homelessness epidemic, repair a fragmented aid industry

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The role of UV-Vis in biopharma QC

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