More than half of survivors of critical illness treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) do not make a full recovery at one year, according to a study published online Sept. 7 in PLOS ONE.
Sep 12, 2022
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A pioneering project introducing iPads to care homes during the pandemic had a significant impact on social isolation, according to experts at the University of Stirling.
Sep 7, 2022
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The UK's drug regulator said Saturday it had approved an updated COVID-19 jab by Pfizer/BioNTEch targeting the original virus and a subvariant ahead of an autumn booster drive.
Sep 3, 2022
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Health care systems have been dramatically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals and aged care homes receiving the lion's share of the media's attention around the world. But now, researchers from Japan have characterized ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Within weeks, updated COVID-19 vaccines could become available across the United States, offering protection against new variants of coronavirus that are making hundreds of thousands of Americans sick, and killing nearly ...
Aug 9, 2022
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Prescribing of potentially harmful antipsychotics to people with dementia has increased by more than 50 percent on average in care homes during the pandemic, new research has found.
Aug 4, 2022
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The pandemic has called attention to an issue that nursing home residents, their families and those who work in nursing homes have been aware of for a long time. Recruiting and retaining both the nursing home staff who provide ...
Aug 4, 2022
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About 3% (6,100) of the 200,000 residents in Australia's aged care facilities had COVID, as of July 22, in addition to 3,400 staff.
Jul 29, 2022
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As those in health care increasingly consider patient-centered medical homes an improvement for health care, two professors from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Drs. James W. Mold and F. Daniel Duffy, argue ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Hospitals and homes are havens for germs and disease—but a well-regulated hot water system can prevent the spread of waterborne pathogens, including an emerging infectious disease problem from "superbugs" which can be resistant ...
Jul 20, 2022
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