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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

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

COVID-19 vaccine safety concerns result in lower vaccination rates among pregnant individuals in the United States

In a new study, researchers evaluated the factors associated with lower coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rates among pregnant individuals in the United States (U.S.).

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

Court ruling may spur competitive health plans to bring back copays for preventive services

Tom and Mary Jo York are a health-conscious couple, going in for annual physicals and periodic colorectal cancer screening tests. Mary Jo, whose mother and aunts had breast cancer, also gets regular mammography tests.

15 Sep 2022

New study estimates monkeypox incubation, generation times and R0

A new study discusses the characteristics of the first 255 RT-PCR-confirmed MPX cases in Italy in 2022.

14 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

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

STRATAGEM aims to provide new perspectives on multidrug-resistant solid tumors

Achieving a good efficacy of chemotherapy is one of the major challenges still unresolved in oncological patients. The main limitation to the efficacy of chemotherapy is the multidrug-resistant (MDR) phenotype, a multiple cross-resistance towards different anticancer drugs.

14 Sep 2022

Air pollution may trigger arrhythmias in healthy adolescents

Breathing particulate matter (i.e., tiny particles suspended in the air) air pollution may trigger irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) in healthy teenagers, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

14 Sep 2022

Medical device components that inhibit bacterial growth

Vyon® porous plastics from Porvair Sciences are the perfect material for filtration applications in the healthcare and medical device market.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 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

FUJIFILM Healthcare Demonstrates New Ultrasound Platform at ISUOG 2022

FUJIFILM Healthcare will be exhibiting at the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) World Congress 2022 on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

From FUJIFILM Corporation 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

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

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

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

COVID-19 vaccine safety concerns result in lower vaccination rates among pregnant individuals in the United States

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

Court ruling may spur competitive health plans to bring back copays for preventive services

New study estimates monkeypox incubation, generation times and R0

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

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

STRATAGEM aims to provide new perspectives on multidrug-resistant solid tumors

Air pollution may trigger arrhythmias in healthy adolescents

Medical device components that inhibit bacterial growth

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

FUJIFILM Healthcare Demonstrates New Ultrasound Platform at ISUOG 2022

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

Transmission of monkeypox virus atypical and unique in 2022

Altered T-cell response in hemodialysis patients following third COVID-19 vaccine dose

COVID found to be the leading cause of death for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Expansion of telehealth during the pandemic for opioid use disorder-related care associated with beneficial outcomes

NIH's Bridge2AI program aims to expand use of AI by biomedical and behavioral research communities

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