Researchers have created a machine learning tool that can help identify patients who are most at risk of developing COVID-19 while in hospital.
Oct 19, 2022
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Regular physical activity is linked to a lower risk of COVID-19 infection and severity, including hospital admission and death, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the British Journal ...
Aug 22, 2022
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The latest Burnet Institute modeling for the Victorian Government has demonstrated the benefits of mask-wearing, by showing that increased mask uptake in Victoria could reduce the duration of epidemic peaks and increased ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Medications such as buprenorphine and methadone should be used to help treat patients with opioid use disorder who come to hospital with injecting-related infections, finds new research from UCL and UNSW, Sydney.
Jul 21, 2022
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The rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout from December 2020 averted infection in a large proportion of NHS hospital workers in England during the second wave of the pandemic, suggests research published by The BMJ today.
Jul 20, 2022
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Trials of new vaccine candidates must be accelerated and existing vaccine use stepped up to prevent life-threatening infections that can no longer be beaten by antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Jul 20, 2022
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The toll of drug-resistant "superbug" infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
Jul 12, 2022
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The last time Medicare rated hospitals on surgical complications such as bed sores, collapsed lungs, bloodstream infections, and broken hips, four Philadelphia-area facilities scored worse than average.
Jun 16, 2022
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A state health department's quick action to mobilize an inter-facility response to protect ventilator-dependent residents of a skilled nursing facility from a superbug outbreak in the middle of the pandemic is being highlighted ...
Jun 15, 2022
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The risk of acquiring COVID-19—and the severity of illness—in the context of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) and their therapy, remains incompletely understood. Reported infection rates and outcomes have ...
Jun 3, 2022
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