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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

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

The rapid upscaling of a telemonitoring program in which health care providers performed daily telemedicine check-ins on COVID-19 patients faced a unique set of challenges.

10 Feb 2021

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

Contact tracing, a critical part of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, has fallen behind in recent months as covid-19 cases have soared. President Joe Biden had pledged to change that.

10 Feb 2021

Farmworker camps to urban tent cities: Tailoring vaccine info to where it’s most needed

Kim Wagenaar has been preparing to bring covid-19 vaccines to western North Carolina for months.

10 Feb 2021

Pandemic-fueled alcohol abuse creates wave of hospitalizations for liver disease

As the pandemic sends thousands of recovering alcoholics into relapse, hospitals across the country have reported dramatic increases in alcohol-related admissions for critical diseases like alcoholic hepatitis and liver failure.

10 Feb 2021

Study reveals mechanism behind “Fecal Microbiota Transplantation”

Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) occurs in the gut and is caused by the Gram-positive, spore-forming anaerobic bacterium, C. difficile when its spores attach to fecal matter and are transferred from hand to mouth by health care workers.

10 Feb 2021

FDA issues EUA for bamlanivimab and etesevimab for COVID-19 treatment

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for bamlanivimab and etesevimab administered together for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age or older weighing at least 40 kilograms [about 88 pounds]) who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 and who are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19.

10 Feb 2021

Smartphones could help manage chronic cardiopulmonary disease, predict next pandemic

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple optical technique used to detect volumetric changes in peripheral blood circulation. It's used in smart watches, for example, to monitor pulse and heart rate, but PPG biosensors are also found in millions of smartphones, but without any current clinical applications.

10 Feb 2021

Fred Hutch researchers predict a 4th wave of SARS-CoV-2

Recently, researchers from France and the USA analyzed the complexities of vaccine implementation during the 3rd wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections and potentially future waves, using a mathematical model calibrated to data from King County, Washington.

9 Feb 2021

New study to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs on preventing COVID-19 progression

McMaster University researchers are leading a large international study to test drugs to treat COVID-19 patients.

9 Feb 2021

Nitrate in maternal drinking water associated with fetal growth restriction

Women whose household drinking water contained nitrate had babies that weighed, on average, 10 grams less than babies born to mothers where household water had no detectible nitrate, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and Aarhus University.

9 Feb 2021

Health Care News and Research

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

Farmworker camps to urban tent cities: Tailoring vaccine info to where it’s most needed

Pandemic-fueled alcohol abuse creates wave of hospitalizations for liver disease

Study reveals mechanism behind “Fecal Microbiota Transplantation”

FDA issues EUA for bamlanivimab and etesevimab for COVID-19 treatment

Smartphones could help manage chronic cardiopulmonary disease, predict next pandemic

Fred Hutch researchers predict a 4th wave of SARS-CoV-2

New study to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs on preventing COVID-19 progression

Nitrate in maternal drinking water associated with fetal growth restriction

Scalise’s claim that unauthorized immigrants are getting priority for vaccination misses the point

Native Americans use technology to keep traditions, language alive during pandemic

Gene screenings hold disease clues, but unexplained anomalies often raise fears

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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