Dementia Patients Wind up in the ER 1.4 Million Times a Year, Study Shows
TUESDAY, July 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Emergency rooms can be a frightening place for people suffering from dementia, yet each year 1.4 million Americans with Alzheimer’s or other dementias wind up in crowded, noisy ERs, a new study finds.Dementia…
Learn MoreMajor Drug Shortages Not Likely After Tornado Damages Pfizer Plant, FDA says
MONDAY, July 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Tornado damage to a Pfizer drug-making plant in North Carolina is unlikely to trigger drug shortages across the country, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. “We do not expect there to be any immediate …
Learn MoreAvoidable Hospital Admissions Increased With Health Care Disruption
FRIDAY, July 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — People whose access to health care was disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic have an increased risk for an avoidable hospital admission, according to a study published online July 19 in The BMJ.Mark A. Green,…
Learn MoreDurante la pandemia, los hogares de ancianos usaron menos fármacos para la COVID de lo previsto
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Aunque los residentes de los hogares de ancianos tienen un riesgo alto de malos resultados si contraen la COVID-19, el uso de tratamientos antivirales, como los anticuerpos monoclonales, fue bajo a lo la…
Learn MoreLatinos With Advanced Degrees Underrepresented in Health Care Workforce
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Latinos remain underrepresented in U.S. health professions that require advanced degrees, according to a study published in the July issue of Health Affairs.Indira Ghandi Islas, M.P.H., from the Congressional…
Learn MoreNursing Homes Used COVID Meds Less Than Expected During Pandemic
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — While nursing home residents are at high risk for bad outcomes if they get COVID-19, use of antiviral treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, was low through most of 2021 and 2022.The authors of a new stud…
Learn MorePatient-Reported Racism Tied to Mistrust, Worse Patient-Clinician Communication
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Epistemic injustice is the most common manifestation of racism experienced by Black patients with serious illness and is associated with worsened mistrust and negative patient-clinician communication outcomes,…
Learn MoreFDA Approves New Drug to Protect Against RSV in Infants
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay Now) — Parents now have a new long-acting drug to protect their children against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common infection that hospitalizes as many as 3 percent of children younger than 1 year in the Unit…
Learn MoreImprovement Seen in Most Domains of Pediatric Readiness in U.S. EDs
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — From 2013 to 2021, there was improvement in almost all domains of readiness of U.S. emergency departments to care for children, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Network Open.Katherine E. Re…
Learn MoreHome Discharge Down, Mortality Increased After ICU Stay for Dementia Patients
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Older adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) have lower home discharge rates and increased mortality after intensive care unit (ICU) admission, according to a study published in the July 1 i…
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