Lower staffing may drive increased antipsychotic use, study finds … Tough Australian flu season may foretell dangerous US winter … ACC: Rate of 4 cardiovascular risk factors projected to soar through...
Clinical briefs for Friday, May 13
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Alicia Lasek
May 13, 2022
Nursing facility flu study recruiting now … Medication dosages predict successful control of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis … Multidisciplinary collaboration leads to 63% C. diff reduction...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, March 23
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 23, 2022
U.S. flu activity slowly picking up: CDC update … Pfizer pulls certain blood pressure drugs off market due to contamination … Risks of knee surgery no higher for octogenarians than younger patients,...
Driven by pandemic lessons, CDC advisers mull endorsing high-dose flu vaccines for seniors
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 15, 2022
A decision to recommend high-dose influenza shots over standard-dose vaccines would be a welcome change, long-term care stakeholders say.
New data show high excess mortality from RSV, reduced threat from flu among older adults
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 02, 2022
The first such study in 13 years finds nuanced changes in the risk that flu and respiratory syncytial virus pose to seniors, and underscores the impact of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic on infections and deaths...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Dec. 8
Dec 08, 2021
It could be good news If Omicron is more transmissible but milder than delta … Operators need to adopt ‘not on my watch’ attitude toward flu: public health expert … Researchers look at repurposing...
Yearly flu vaccination does not affect SNF resident mortality in large Medicare study
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 02, 2021
A study of 26 million Medicare recipients has linked regular flu shots with lowered mortality — except in skilled nursing facility residents. The results suggest that vaccines alone are not enough to...
Flu cases up 23 percent over 2020, Walgreens data show
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 21, 2021
Nevada tops the list and Southern communities overall are showing some of the highest and most widespread flu activity, according to an index based on antiviral prescriptions data.
Long-term symptoms more likely to follow COVID-19 than influenza, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 01, 2021
The results suggest that these effects are linked directly to SARS-CoV-2 infection and are not just a general consequence of viral infection, say investigators from University of Oxford, in the United...
Vaccination cuts severe flu illness by 32 percent in 2019-2020, ICU study finds
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Alicia Lasek
May 26, 2021
Older adults who received the flu vaccine that season were notably less protected than their younger cohort against acute respiratory symptoms. Vaccination also was more protective against influenza-associated...