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Vaccine equity is ‘North Star,’ feds say, and clinics are key to fair distribution

Mary Barnett is one of about a dozen seniors who got a covid vaccine on a recent morning at Neighborhood Health, a clinic tucked in a sprawling public housing development on the south side of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

11 Feb 2021

Short duration, poor-quality sleep may increase risk of dementia and earlier death in elderly people

Sleep and health are inextricably connected. New research from investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital explores the connection between sleep disturbances and deficiencies among older adults and risk of dementia and death, finding that risk of dementia was double among participants who reported getting less than five hours of sleep compared to those who reported 7-8 hours of sleep per night.

11 Feb 2021

Tech companies mobilize to schedule vaccine appointments, but often fall short

On Jan. 14 at 8:43 p.m., Patrick McKenzie tweeted a plea for tech engineers to help him set up a website to track covid-19 vaccine availability in California. McKenzie, who heads a Bay Area financial services tech company, issued the call to "anyone in California [who] wants to do a civtech project which matters."

11 Feb 2021

Health workers and hospitals grapple with millions of counterfeit N95 masks

Thousands of counterfeit 3M respirators have slipped past U.S. investigators in recent months, making it to the cheeks and chins of health care workers and perplexing experts who say their quality is not vastly inferior to the real thing.

11 Feb 2021

Flurry of bills aim to set limits on transgender kids – and their doctors

Sam Edelman felt like a girl for as long as he could remember, his dad said. As Sam's 18th birthday approached, and after years of researching hormone treatments, the high school senior scheduled an appointment with a doctor who treats transgender people.

11 Feb 2021

Study investigates influence of adequate supply of vitamin D on prognosis of numerous diseases

In recent years, three meta-analyses of clinical studies have come to the conclusion that vitamin D supplementation was associated with a reduction in the mortality rate from cancer of around 13 percent.

11 Feb 2021

Pediatric dietary mobile game improved children’s short-term food choices

Rates of overweight and obesity in children are rising around the world, with serious long-term consequences for health and health care costs. In prior research, video and mobile games have helped children eat healthier and exercise more.

11 Feb 2021

Researchers determine magnitude of Philadelphia's firearm violence during COVID-19

While the COVID-19 pandemic brought most of the country to a standstill in March 2020, Philadelphia trauma surgeons noticed an alarming trend in the incidence of firearm violence.

11 Feb 2021

COVID-19 immunity study to enroll college students to test vaccine effectiveness

A University of Arizona Health Sciences study that is examining COVID-19 immunity and re-infection among frontline workers is expanding to include some Arizona college students while broadening its research focus to include COVID-19 vaccination effectiveness.

11 Feb 2021

Single strain of bacteria may reduce the severity of graft-versus-host disease

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers found that a single strain of bacteria may be able to reduce the severity of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), as reported online in February 2021 in JCI Insight.

11 Feb 2021

Innovative collaboration applies state-of-the-art computation to medical care

An innovative partnership at The University of Texas at Austin takes aim at medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care.

10 Feb 2021

Nursing care during COVID-19 pandemic impacted by fear and isolation

Researchers from the University of Seville's Nursing Department, with the collaboration of professionals from the ICU at Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, have analyzed the key factors in caring for critical COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic.

10 Feb 2021

Researchers find higher odds of hospital readmission after endovascular aneurysm repair

Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAA) are responsible for nearly 2% of all deaths in U.S. men over the age of 65.

10 Feb 2021

Virtual recovery program for sepsis patients may also help in post-COVID care

A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society describes a "virtual" recovery program for sepsis patients that may also help post-COVID-19 patients and survivors of other serious illnesses.

10 Feb 2021

Novel tool guides evaluation of patients who develop COVID-19 symptoms

When patients arrive in emergency departments and hospitals with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, it's critical to isolate them to avoid the potential spread of infection, but keeping patients isolated longer than needed could delay patient care, take up hospital beds needed for other patients, and unnecessarily use up personal protective equipment.

10 Feb 2021

Health Care News and Research

Vaccine equity is ‘North Star,’ feds say, and clinics are key to fair distribution

Short duration, poor-quality sleep may increase risk of dementia and earlier death in elderly people

Tech companies mobilize to schedule vaccine appointments, but often fall short

Health workers and hospitals grapple with millions of counterfeit N95 masks

Flurry of bills aim to set limits on transgender kids – and their doctors

Study investigates influence of adequate supply of vitamin D on prognosis of numerous diseases

Pediatric dietary mobile game improved children’s short-term food choices

Researchers determine magnitude of Philadelphia's firearm violence during COVID-19

COVID-19 immunity study to enroll college students to test vaccine effectiveness

Single strain of bacteria may reduce the severity of graft-versus-host disease

Innovative collaboration applies state-of-the-art computation to medical care

Nursing care during COVID-19 pandemic impacted by fear and isolation

Researchers find higher odds of hospital readmission after endovascular aneurysm repair

Virtual recovery program for sepsis patients may also help in post-COVID care

Novel tool guides evaluation of patients who develop COVID-19 symptoms

Telemedicine-based program for COVID-19 patients helps maximize health care delivery

As pandemic surged, contact tracing struggled; Biden looks to boost it

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