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Lifestyle interventions can help pediatricians meet the growing need for youth depression management

With rising prevalence of depression in adolescents, screening requirements are increasingly falling on pediatric primary care providers, who are encountering more at-risk patients.

15 Sep 2022

Adherence to CPAP treatment reduces rehospitalization risk in adults with comorbid sleep apnea and heart disease

Consistent use of CPAP treatment in patients with known heart disease and newly diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea is associated with a lower likelihood of rehospitalization, according to a new study.

15 Sep 2022

Disruption of actin cytoskeleton is key to triggering human immune response, research finds

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Florida Research and Innovation Center (FRIC) found that disruption of a cellular structure, known as the actin cytoskeleton, is a "priming signal" for the body to respond to a virus.

15 Sep 2022

NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn receives first Magnet recognition for excellence in nursing

NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn received its first Magnet recognition for excellence in nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)—making it the only hospital in Brooklyn with this designation.

15 Sep 2022

Study shows links between periodontal care and hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction

The conventional wisdom is that medical and dental care are related, but less is known about how dental care relates to health outcomes after acute incidents like heart attacks.

15 Sep 2022

Doctors experiencing burnout can jeopardize the quality and safety of patient care

Doctors experiencing burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents and four times more likely to be dissatisfied with their job, suggests research published today by The BMJ.

15 Sep 2022

High levels of mucosal antibodies in the airways reduce the risk of omicron infection

High levels of mucosal antibodies in the airways reduce the risk of being infected by omicron, but many do not receive detectable antibodies in the airways despite three doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.

14 Sep 2022

Impending hospital closure rattles Atlanta health care landscape and political races

Like many neighborhoods in cities across the country, Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward is changing.

14 Sep 2022

Extra caution needed while screening depressed teenagers with Type 1 diabetes

The scoring results of widely used depression-screening tools should be carefully adjusted to better detect the condition in teenagers with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D), according to a new study published in the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes Care.

14 Sep 2022

Seven healthy lifestyle habits linked to lower risk of dementia in people with diabetes

A combination of seven healthy lifestyle habits including sleeping seven to nine hours daily, exercising regularly and having frequent social contact was associated with a lower risk of dementia in people with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the September 14, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

14 Sep 2022

Simple phone-based outreach strategy can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco

New findings published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research show a simple, but valuable approach can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco.

14 Sep 2022

Expanding screening could help prevent sudden cardiac death in young people with HCM

Nearly nine in ten cases of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in young people are preceded by symptoms, ECG abnormalities or a positive family history, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Erik Börjesson of Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden, and colleagues.

14 Sep 2022

Winners of the 2022 CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants announced

The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and NYC Health + Hospitals have announced the 2022 awardees of the CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants, an initiative to support collaborative, interdisciplinary COVID-19 research that will address both the pandemic and root causes of health disparities in New York City.

14 Sep 2022

Neisseria species are linked to worsening bronchiectasis in patients, study shows

A team of international scientists led by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered that Neisseria - a genus of bacteria that lives in the human body - is not as harmless as previously thought, and can cause infections in patients with bronchiectasis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

14 Sep 2022

Newborns get routine heel blood tests, but should states keep those samples

Close to 4 million babies are born in the United States every year, and within their first 48 hours nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening genetic and metabolic problems.

14 Sep 2022

California and New York aim to curb diet pill sales to minors

California and New York are on the cusp of going further than the FDA in restricting the sale of non-prescription diet pills to minors as pediatricians and public health advocates try to protect kids from extreme weight-loss gimmicks online.

14 Sep 2022

CDC Health Alert Network provides recommendations to manage the recent increase in severe respiratory illness among children

The US CDC’s HAN has provided certain recommendations to inform healthcare providers, infection control professionals, clinical laboratories, and public health departments about the recent increase in pediatric cases of severe respiratory illness in several regions of the USA.

14 Sep 2022

Risk of dementia reduced 50% by walking 9,800 steps a day

In a recent study published in JAMA Neurology, researchers assessed the association between the number and intensity of steps taken per day and dementia incidence among adults residing in the United Kingdom (UK).

14 Sep 2022

COVID-19 risk substantially reduced in seniors who receive 4th mRNA booster

In a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers in Singapore estimated the effectiveness of the second booster (fourth dose) vaccination with messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines against symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and associated hospitalizations with among individuals aged ≥80 years.

14 Sep 2022

Transmission of monkeypox virus atypical and unique in 2022

In a recent study published in the journal Viruses, researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases identified and presented all the relevant research on the monkeypox virus (MPXV) to draw inferences about the 2022 MPXV outbreak.

13 Sep 2022

Hospital News and Research

Lifestyle interventions can help pediatricians meet the growing need for youth depression management

Adherence to CPAP treatment reduces rehospitalization risk in adults with comorbid sleep apnea and heart disease

Disruption of actin cytoskeleton is key to triggering human immune response, research finds

NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn receives first Magnet recognition for excellence in nursing

Study shows links between periodontal care and hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction

Doctors experiencing burnout can jeopardize the quality and safety of patient care

High levels of mucosal antibodies in the airways reduce the risk of omicron infection

Impending hospital closure rattles Atlanta health care landscape and political races

Extra caution needed while screening depressed teenagers with Type 1 diabetes

Seven healthy lifestyle habits linked to lower risk of dementia in people with diabetes

Simple phone-based outreach strategy can help engage low-income smokers to try quitting tobacco

Expanding screening could help prevent sudden cardiac death in young people with HCM

Winners of the 2022 CURE-19 Research Pilot Grants announced

Neisseria species are linked to worsening bronchiectasis in patients, study shows

Newborns get routine heel blood tests, but should states keep those samples

California and New York aim to curb diet pill sales to minors

CDC Health Alert Network provides recommendations to manage the recent increase in severe respiratory illness among children

Risk of dementia reduced 50% by walking 9,800 steps a day

COVID-19 risk substantially reduced in seniors who receive 4th mRNA booster

Transmission of monkeypox virus atypical and unique in 2022

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