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People with vision impairment have higher risk of all-cause mortalityMarch 5, 2021 at 10:50 PM The global population is aging, and so are their eyes. In fact, the number of people with vision impairment and blindness is expected to more than double over the next 30 years.Tags: Health 19 people like this. Like Survey identifies top factor for longevity in clinical research coordinator positionsMarch 5, 2021 at 10:41 PM Strong, collaborative relationships with principal investigators are a key factor of longevity in clinical research coordinator positions -- an essential, but increasingly transient job in executing treatment-advancing clinical trials, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers found.Tags: Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 11 people like this. Like FDA issues emergency use authorization for T-Detect COVID TestMarch 5, 2021 at 9:41 PM Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the T-Detect COVID Test developed by Adaptive Biotechnologies.Tags: Health, Fda, U S Food and Drug Administration 43 people like this. Like FDA authorizes first molecular non-prescription, at-home COVID-19 testMarch 5, 2021 at 9:46 PM Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Cue COVID-19 Test for Home and Over The Counter (OTC) Use.Tags: Health, Fda, U S Food and Drug Administration, EUA 27 people like this. Like California’s vaccine appointment website has glitches. No surprise?March 5, 2021 at 9:38 PM California rolled out a statewide covid vaccination website this week aiming to streamline the appointment process after months of criticism, but the site is riddled with its own snags, preventing many from signing up for shots.Tags: Health, California 39 people like this. Like Plaintiffs in LA homelessness suit signal plans for preliminary injunctionMarch 5, 2021 at 9:25 PM The plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to force the city and county of Los Angeles to quickly deal with the homelessness crisis have filed a notice of intent with the court for a preliminary injunction, which would require thousands of beds in the coming months to be opened for indigent people, according to court papers obtained today.
It is a first step toward placing the city and county into a court-supervised receivership in the matter, according to the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, a coalitio...Tags: Health, News, La, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Courts, Homeless, Carter, U S Supreme Court, Board of Education, Mike Bonin, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories IVDB 48 people like this. Like Study proposes a new, noninvasive way to detect kidney transplant rejectionMarch 5, 2021 at 9:15 PM Patients can spend up to six years waiting for a kidney transplant. Even when they do receive a transplant, up to 20 percent of patients will experience rejection.Tags: Health Study: Monoclonal antibody 'cocktail' effective against all known COVID-19 variantsMarch 5, 2021 at 9:08 PM A monoclonal antibody "cocktail" developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to neutralize the COVID-19 virus is effective against all known strains, or variants, of the virus, according to a report published in the journal Nature Medicine.Tags: Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center VUMC Specific brain regions respond opposingly to emotions linked with loneliness and wisdomMarch 5, 2021 at 9:02 PM Research over the last decade has shown that loneliness is an important determinant of health. It is associated with considerable physical and mental health risks and increased mortality.Tags: Health Eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that contribute to diseaseMarch 5, 2021 at 8:54 PM A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and inflammation, genomic alterations and mutations, epigenetic alterations, mitochondrial dysfunction, endocrine disruption, altered intercellular communication, altered microbiome communities, and impaired nervous system function.Tags: Health New system to automatically extract adverse drug reactions from electronic health recordsMarch 5, 2021 at 8:46 PM Patients' electronic health records convey crucial information. The application of natural language processing techniques to these records may be an effective means of extracting information that may improve clinical decision making, clinical documentation and billing, disease prediction and the detection of adverse drug reactions.Tags: Health People with intellectual disability more likely to die from COVID-19 than general populationMarch 5, 2021 at 8:44 PM Intellectual disability puts individuals at higher risk of dying earlier in life than the general population, for a variety of medical and institutional reasons.Tags: Health, COVID 15 people like this. Like African American breast cancer survivors need to be better informed about CVD riskMarch 5, 2021 at 8:39 PM African American breast cancer survivors are four times more likely to die from breast cancer than women of all other races and ethnicities, and they have a disproportionately high rate of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD).Tags: Health, CVD 25 people like this. Like Will new COVID-19 vaccine rollout bypass hardest-hit communities served by health clinics?March 5, 2021 at 8:37 PM Long lines of people wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-thru event at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson in February. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
This war-time mobilization can inspire awe: Giant sports stadiums transformed into massive COVID-19 vaccination sites. Cars snaking along city streets for miles. Uniformed military troops wielding computer tablets to check patients in for computer-generated appointments.
But not everyone has a car. Or a computer. Or t...Tags: Health, News, California, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Healthcare, San Diego, Vaccinations, Blue Shield, Orange County, Mccarthy, Ucla, Gavin Newsom, Pomona, Carson 43 people like this. Like Artificial intelligence can predict risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation and AF-related strokeMarch 5, 2021 at 8:32 PM A team of scientists from Geisinger and Tempus have found that artificial intelligence can predict risk of new atrial fibrillation (AF) and AF-related stroke.Tags: Health, Geisinger, Tempus 32 people like this. Like Del Paso Heights Vaccine Clinic Gets Supply Cut Off – What Happens Now?March 5, 2021 at 8:26 PM cbsoptanon.onScriptsReady(function(cmp){cmp.ot.targetingAllowed(function(a){if(a) AnvatoPlayer("p0").init({"mcp":"cbs","width":"100%","height":"100%","video":"5369040","autoplay":false,"accessKey":"5VD6Eyd6djewbCmNwBFnsJj17YAvGRwl","accessControl":{"preview":false},"pInstance":"p0","plugins":{"heartbeat":{"account":"cbslocal-global-unified","publisherId":"cbslocal","jobId":"sc_va","marketingCloudId":"[email protected]","trackingServer":"cbsdigitalmedia.hb.omtrdc.net","customTrack...Tags: Health, News, Local, Seen On, Sacramento County, Del Paso Heights, Gavin Newsom, Carter, Del Paso, Del Paso Heights News, Coronavirus, Sacramento County Department of Public Health, Coronavirus Vaccine, Kawanaa Carter, Del Paso Heights Community 12 people like this. Like Study identifies worrying trends between teenage screen use and lower physical activityMarch 5, 2021 at 8:25 PM Two thirds of children use more than one screen at the same time after school, in the evenings and at weekends as part of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, according to new research at the University of Leicester.Tags: Health 8 people like this. Like New, efficient method facilitates antibody developmentMarch 5, 2021 at 8:19 PM In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases.Tags: Health 40 people like this. Like Researchers discover how adhesions form in the abdomenMarch 5, 2021 at 8:12 PM Adhesions are scars in the abdomen, which can occur after surgery, often have serious consequences. Now, researchers from the University of Bern and Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, in collaboration with Canadian researchers, have discovered how such adhesions form.Tags: Health, University of Bern, Inselspital University Hospital Bern 39 people like this. Like Multidrug-resistant S. aureus strains may be spreading between pigs, farmworkers in North CarolinaMarch 5, 2021 at 8:06 PM DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains are spreading between pigs, farmworkers, their families and community residents, and represents an emerging public health threat, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.Tags: Health, North Carolina 19 people like this. Like Do politics have a place in medicine? [PODCAST]March 5, 2021 at 7:00 PM  Tags: Health, Podcast, Poland, Auschwitz, PA NP, Public Health & Policy, CRNA 54 people like this. Like LA County coronavirus vaccine allotment continues to increaseMarch 5, 2021 at 7:35 PM Los Angeles County expects to receive 312,000 vaccine doses next week including 53,700 doses of the highly anticipated Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which only requires one dose.
Additional doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were not expected for several weeks.
The allotment coming next week is the biggest since vaccines began flowing into L.A. County in December. This week, the county received 269,000 doses. The week prior it received 211,000 doses in what have been ever-increasing allocations...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Senate, Sport, Joe Biden, Soccer, Community, Biden, Ny, Cuomo, Simon 37 people like this. Like Anger grows at offer of 1% pay rise for NHS staffMarch 5, 2021 at 7:00 PM Nurses leaders set up industrial action fund as Tory MPs fear another U-turn by the governmentMinisters are on a collision course with millions of NHS staff as they insisted the country could not afford a more than 1% pay rise for health workers even as nurses leaders raised the prospect of strike action.The health secretary, Matt Hancock, on Friday insisted the decision to recommend such a small increase was due to an assessment of “what’s affordable as a nation” after the economic toll taken b...Tags: Politics, Conservatives, UK News, Public services policy, NHS, Doctors, Nursing, Public sector pay, Industrial Action, Matt Hancock, Coronavirus 40 people like this. Like Kevin de Leon helps deliver PPEs at Boyle Heights clinicMarch 5, 2021 at 4:34 PM  Tags: Health, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Soccer, Community, Biden, North Carolina, Cuomo, Los Angeles City, LACMA, AP NORC, Kevin de Leon, Los Angeles Daily News 121 people like this. Like 5 Quick Hacks To Reduce InflammationMarch 5, 2021 at 3:06 PM  Tags: Health, Fashion, Probiotics, Health Tips, Health & Fitness, Inflammation, Plexus, Walk Research, Reduce Inflammation, Inflammaging 107 people like this. Like Social support for mothers of patients with eating disorders may help improve mothers' mental healthMarch 5, 2021 at 3:31 PM Although caregivers of patients with eating disorders usually experience a heavy caregiving burden, the effects of social support on caregivers of patients with eating disorders are unknown.Tags: Health 50 people like this. Like Robotic systems gain patient approval for contactless careMarch 5, 2021 at 3:23 PM In the age of COVID-19, mobile robotic telehealth systems could help clinicians and patients interact without contact. Last spring, some health care systems deployed robotic systems within a hospital to evaluate and interact with patients.Tags: Health 34 people like this. Like Research reveals gender disparities in COVID-19 clinical trial leadershipMarch 5, 2021 at 3:17 PM Less than one-third of COVID-19 clinical trials are led by women, which is half the proportion observed in non-COVID-19 trials, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London, University of St Andrews, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.Tags: Health, COVID 21 people like this. Like New computerized test can rapidly screen for both dementia and mild cognitive impairmentMarch 5, 2021 at 3:09 PM As the global population ages, the rate of dementia is increasing worldwide. Given that early detection is critical for treatment, effective ways to screen for dementia are a high research priority.Tags: Health 11 people like this. Like FDA plans to further reduce toxic elements in foods for babies and young childrenMarch 5, 2021 at 3:02 PM The U.S. Food and Drug Administration takes exposure to toxic elements, such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium and lead, in the food supply extremely seriously, especially when it comes to protecting the health and safety of the youngest and most vulnerable in the population.Tags: Health, Fda, U S Food and Drug Administration 41 people like this. Like |
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