Health
Your home, and where it's located, may affect your health
They say home is where the heart is. But can a person's home also play a role in how healthy that heart is?
Aug 1, 2023
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News tagged with care facilities
Health
Only four nations doing enough to stub out smoking: WHO
Only four countries—Brazil, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Turkey—have adopted all the anti-tobacco measures recommended in the fight against the "deadly scourge" of smoking, the World Health Organization said Monday.
Jul 31, 2023
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Health
Extreme heat, an aging population and climate change are putting ever more people at risk
Scorching temperatures have put millions of Americans in danger this summer, with heat extremes stretching from coast to coast in the Southern U.S.
Jul 26, 2023
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Medical economics
Private equity takeovers of health care services linked to patient harm
Private equity ownership of health care services such as nursing homes and hospitals is associated with harmful impacts on costs and quality of care, suggests a review of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today.
Jul 19, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Air monitor can detect COVID-19 virus variants in about 5 minutes
Now that the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, scientists are looking at ways to surveil indoor environments in real time for viruses. By combining recent advances in aerosol sampling technology and an ultrasensitive ...
Jul 10, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dementia is not the end of learning, finds researcher
People with dementia still have the ability to learn new things despite their illness. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis recently presented at Linköping University, Sweden. Its findings debunk the general belief ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New research reveals high rates of malnutrition in people living with dementia in long-term care
University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have found one-in-four people living with dementia in long-term care facilities suffer from malnutrition.
Jun 29, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
RSV is a serious health threat, but the public knows little about it
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determines whether to approve a vaccine against RSV for adults 60 and older, a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that the American public is ill-informed ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Ophthalmology
Another death, more cases of vision loss linked to tainted eye drops
Cases of vision loss and deaths are mounting in an investigation into eye drops contaminated with a rare strain of the drug-resistant bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
May 23, 2023
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Health
As more hospitals create police forces, critics warn of pitfalls
When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations.
May 18, 2023
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