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Jul , 2024
Study offers insight into incarceration’s toll on youth health
Tag: Nursing

Study offers insight into incarceration’s toll on youth health

Researcher Samantha Boch has studied the impact of incarceration on child and family health for more than a decade. Her latest research examines the health records and health care use of youth, individuals under age 21, who likely have been involved or whose families have been involved in the justice system. The challenge was identifying youth […]

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Jul , 2024
States set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. Residents suffer when rules are ignored or waived.
Tag: Nursing

States set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. Residents suffer when rules are ignored or waived.

For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiotics he was taking made him need to go to the […]

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Jun , 2024
Nursing home staffing rules prompt pushback
Tag: Nursing

Nursing home staffing rules prompt pushback

The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in […]

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Jun , 2024
N95 respirators potential standard of care in nursing homes and healthcare settings during respiratory viral infections
Tag: Nursing

N95 respirators potential standard of care in nursing homes and healthcare settings during respiratory viral infections

In a recent study published in eBioMedicine, researchers examined the efficiency of surgical masks, fabric masks, N95 respirators, and KN95 respirators in lowering the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral loads in the exhaled breath aerosol (EBA) samples of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Study: Relative efficacy of masks and respirators as source […]

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May , 2024
Sub-4 min mile runners have increased longevity compared with the general population
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Sub-4 min mile runners have increased longevity compared with the general population

A new study released to mark the 70th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister’s sub-four-minute mile record has revealed the first 200 runners to follow in his footsteps also share another remarkable trait. The study from investigators in Australia and Canada found the 200 elite runners live on average almost five years longer than the general […]

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Jan , 2024
‘Emergency’ or not, covid is still killing people. Here’s what doctors advise to stay safe.
Tag: Nursing

‘Emergency’ or not, covid is still killing people. Here’s what doctors advise to stay safe.

With around 20,000 people dying of covid in the United States since the start of October, and tens of thousands more abroad, the covid pandemic clearly isn’t over. However, the crisis response is, since the World Health Organization and the Biden administration ended their declared health emergencies last year. Let’s not confuse the terms “pandemic” […]

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Dec , 2023
Readers on the costs of long-term care
Tag: Nursing

Readers on the costs of long-term care

Thousands of readers reacted to the articles in the “Dying Broke” series about the financial burden of long-term care in the United States. They offered their assessments for the government and market failures that have drained the lifetime savings of so many American families. And some offered possible solutions. In more than 4,200 comments, readers […]

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Nov , 2023
Howard Meyers commits $25 million to MD Anderson to establish Meyers Institute for Oncology Nursing
Tag: Nursing

Howard Meyers commits $25 million to MD Anderson to establish Meyers Institute for Oncology Nursing

Howard Meyers, of Dallas, Texas, a member of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors (BOV), has committed $25 million to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to establish the Meyers Institute for Oncology Nursing. The first of its kind, the Meyers Institute for Oncology Nursing will support and […]

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Oct , 2023
Breast milk microbiome changes after COVID-19 vaccination, linked to enhanced infant protection
Tag: Nursing

Breast milk microbiome changes after COVID-19 vaccination, linked to enhanced infant protection

In a recent study published in the journal npj Vaccines, researchers investigated whether the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine could alter the breast milk microbiome and ways in which the changes impact breast milk antibody titers. Vaccine-induced antibodies in breast milk confer immunity to newborns against SARS-CoV-2. However, […]

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Oct , 2023
Study highlights racial and ethnic disparities in disability among older adults
Tag: Nursing

Study highlights racial and ethnic disparities in disability among older adults

Roughly 40% of older Black adults live with a disability, compared to only one-third of older adults overall. Disability is one of various disparities highlighted in a new study from the University of Michigan, which used data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging to examine the extent to which 50- to 80-year-olds were prepared […]
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