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Survey: Nearly half of healthcare workers witness discrimination against patients
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Foster Stubbs
Feb 20, 2024
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are likely to witness discrimination in their workplaces, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative. This can contribute...
Pandemic lessons learned need to apply to future dementia care in nursing homes: editorial
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 02, 2024
An editorial in response to a 2023 study about caring for people with dementia during the pandemic highlights some of the ongoing issues in nursing home care quality that became prominent during the outbreak...
Some health experts question WHO’s latest COVID-19 prevention rules
By
Kristen Fischer
Jan 30, 2024
The World Health Organization recently published COVID-19 prevention and infection control guidelines, but some experts don’t think the standards incorporate enough of what healthcare workers learned...
People at severe COVID-19 risk got less treatment than lower-risk patients; study exposes N95 mask fit...
By
Kristen Fischer
Jan 29, 2024
Two new studies shed more light on how people used measures to prevent and treat COVID-19.
CDC guidance on flu protocol in nursing homes works best, study concludes
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Kristen Fischer
Dec 14, 2023
A new study put flu guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the test to see how well it worked. It turns out, sticking to the clinical recommendations was most effective...
Study: Threats to healthcare officials, workers resulted in exodus from field
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Kristen Fischer
Dec 13, 2023
A new report highlights the reasons why frontline healthcare workers and health officials left the field during the COVID-19 pandemic. Spoiler alert: Harassment from others — and even hate mail — helped...
COVID-19, flu shots down in healthcare workers, studies find
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 13, 2023
Healthcare workers were more apt to get the flu shot than the COVID-19 vaccine this year. Hospital workers specifically, meanwhile, were less likely to get the flu shot after the pandemic rather than before...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Nov. 2
By
Kristen Fischer
Nov 02, 2023
Paxlovid didn’t help older adults with long COVID, study shows … What geriatricians should know about monoclonal anti-amyloid antibodies for Alzheimer’s … High salt linked to type 2 diabetes...
AI spotted health workers’ anxiety, depression during pandemic therapy, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 25, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) was able to detect depression and anxiety in healthcare workers at the height of the pandemic, a new study found. The technology could be used to support them going forward.