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Virtual care during COVID-19 delivers impressive benefits for cancer patients, clinicians

Patients and healthcare providers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre rated virtual care during COVID-19 as highly satisfactory overall for quality of care and convenience, while at the same time saving patients millions in costs.

7 Jan 2021

Cooling vests can reduce perceptual heat strain encountered by COVID-19 nurses

Wearing cooling vests during a COVID-19 shift ensures that nurses experience less heat during their work. During their shifts, nurses wear protective clothing for three hours in a row, during which the temperature can rise to as much as 36 degrees.

7 Jan 2021

Researchers call for policies and laws mandating the use of surgical smoke evacuations systems

If you've ever been in an operating room where tools are used to simultaneously cut and cauterize human flesh, you know what surgical smoke is.

7 Jan 2021

Credible fact checking can effectively reduce vaccine misinformation on social media

Social media misinformation can negatively influence people's attitudes about vaccine safety and effectiveness, but credible organizations -- such as research universities and health institutions -- can play a pivotal role in debunking myths with simple tags that link to factual information, University of California, Davis, researchers, suggest in a new study.

7 Jan 2021

Study shows benefits of dispatching HEMS to patients with sudden loss of consciousness

Research from life-saving charity Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex in partnership with the University of Surrey has shown the benefits of dispatching HEMS to patients with a sudden, unexplained LOC of medical origin and a high prevalence of acute neurological pathology.

7 Jan 2021

Mount Sinai launches new center for psychedelics research

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched a new center for psychedelics research.

7 Jan 2021

Study reveals racial-ethnic inequities among people with type 1 diabetes and COVID-19

Black and Hispanic people with COVID-19 and diabetes are more likely than Caucasians to die or have serious complications, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

7 Jan 2021

Study explores women's interest in long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy

A study led by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers examines attitudes toward long-acting injectable (LAI) HIV therapies, among women with a history of injection--including medical purposes and substance use. The findings appear in the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs.

7 Jan 2021

Study: Culture plays a critical role in perception of palliative care in South Asian populations

When dealing with a life-limiting illness, palliative care can improve the quality of life for patients and families.

7 Jan 2021

Study addresses how to mitigate the mental health impact of Covid-19 lockdown

The Covid-19 pandemic is impacting people's mental health. But what helps and hinders people in getting through a lockdown? A new study led by researchers at the University of Basel addressed this question using data from 78 countries across the world.

7 Jan 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Georgia turns the Senate blue

Surprise Democratic victories in Georgia's two runoff elections this week will give Democrats control of the Senate, which means they will be in charge of both houses of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2010.

7 Jan 2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental health of older adults? A UK case study

A team of researchers at University College London, UK, recently explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of older adults across Britain.

7 Jan 2021

Resistance training provides similar relative benefits to older men and women

Men and women aged over 50 can reap similar relative benefits from resistance training, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows.

7 Jan 2021

SARS-CoV-2 viral load in saliva may be linked to COVID-19 disease severity

Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine found that SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in saliva are higher for patients with associated risk factors and underlying conditions that lead to severe COVID-19 and death. Thus, saliva viral loads could be used to predict disease severity.

7 Jan 2021

Males at higher risk of severe COVID-19 and mortality in Indian case study

A new US-based study by researchers at Dartmouth College, the Development Data Lab, IDFC Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago shows that the infection fatality rate (IFR) could be twice as high for men compared to women and increases much less at older ages compared to high-income countries.

7 Jan 2021

Which strain should SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates target?

A researcher at Clemson University, USA, has recently explored how governments might effectively combat the pandemic through strategic vaccination as new variants and strains of the virus emerge. The study suggests that vaccine candidates should target the fast-spreading variant, even when the initial prevalence is much lower.

7 Jan 2021

San Francisco wrestles with drug approach as death and chaos engulf Tenderloin

In early 2019, Tom Wolf posted a thank-you on Twitter to the cop who had arrested him the previous spring, when he was homeless and strung out in a doorway with 103 tiny bindles of heroin and cocaine in a plastic baggie at his feet.

7 Jan 2021

In Los Angeles and beyond, oxygen is the latest covid bottleneck

As Los Angeles hospitals give record numbers of covid patients oxygen, the systems and equipment needed to deliver the life-sustaining gas are faltering.

7 Jan 2021

Illinois is first in the nation to extend health coverage to undocumented seniors

As a nurse manager for one of Chicago's busiest safety-net hospitals, Raquel Prendkowski has witnessed covid-19's devastating toll on many of the city's most vulnerable residents — including people who lack health insurance because of their immigration status. Some come in so sick they go right to intensive care. Some don't survive.

7 Jan 2021

Women physicians spend more time on citizenship tasks than male colleagues

Women physicians feel pressured to spend more time in work-related citizenship tasks, based largely on their age and race.

7 Jan 2021

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Virtual care during COVID-19 delivers impressive benefits for cancer patients, clinicians

Cooling vests can reduce perceptual heat strain encountered by COVID-19 nurses

Researchers call for policies and laws mandating the use of surgical smoke evacuations systems

Credible fact checking can effectively reduce vaccine misinformation on social media

Study shows benefits of dispatching HEMS to patients with sudden loss of consciousness

Mount Sinai launches new center for psychedelics research

Study reveals racial-ethnic inequities among people with type 1 diabetes and COVID-19

Study explores women's interest in long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy

Study: Culture plays a critical role in perception of palliative care in South Asian populations

Study addresses how to mitigate the mental health impact of Covid-19 lockdown

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Georgia turns the Senate blue

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental health of older adults? A UK case study

Resistance training provides similar relative benefits to older men and women

SARS-CoV-2 viral load in saliva may be linked to COVID-19 disease severity

Males at higher risk of severe COVID-19 and mortality in Indian case study

Which strain should SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates target?

San Francisco wrestles with drug approach as death and chaos engulf Tenderloin

In Los Angeles and beyond, oxygen is the latest covid bottleneck

Illinois is first in the nation to extend health coverage to undocumented seniors

Women physicians spend more time on citizenship tasks than male colleagues

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