Clinical

Comparing Potential Moral Injury in Veterans and Health Care Workers

Apr 13, 2022 at 09:10 pm by Staff

A study comparing 618 military veterans who deployed to a combat zone after Sept. 11, 2001, and 2,099 health care workers (HCWs) working during the COVID-19 pandemic found sim.... Read More

Additional COVID Vaccine Helps Protect Transplant Patients

Apr 13, 2022 at 08:47 pm by Staff

Additional booster doses of vaccine against COVID-19 are particularly important for those who are immunosuppressed, namely those who have had solid organ transplants, a new st.... Read More

Computer Eyeballs Graft-vs-host Disease

Apr 11, 2022 at 09:25 am by Staff

by Paul Govern Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in allogeneic stem cell and bone marrow transplant recipients. When stu.... Read More

A Shortfall of ECMO Treatment Cost Lives During the Delta Surge

Apr 10, 2022 at 04:01 pm by Staff

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, Nashville Public Radio, Kaiser Health News Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville,.... Read More

Covid and Schizophrenia: Why This Deadly Mix Can Deepen Knowledge of the Brain Disease

Apr 10, 2022 at 02:44 pm by Staff

By April Dembosky, KQED, Kaiser Health News Most of the time, the voices in Keris Myrick’s head don’t bother her. They stay in the background or say nice thi.... Read More

Delays for Autism Diagnosis and Treatment Grew Even Longer During the Pandemic

Apr 10, 2022 at 02:37 pm by Staff

By Andy Miller and Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News  Wylie James Prescott, 3, had to wait more than a year after his autism diagnosis to begin behavioral th.... Read More

ACC Issues Clinical Guidance on Cardiovascular Consequences of COVID-19

Apr 04, 2022 at 10:14 pm by Staff

Consensus document provides a framework for understanding, evaluating, and managing some of the key cardiovascular sequelae of COVID-19 WASHINGTON  — The Amer.... Read More

Black Patients with Cancer Face Worse COVID Outcomes: Study

Apr 04, 2022 at 09:24 pm by Staff

Tom Wilemon Black patients with cancer experienced significantly worse outcomes after COVID-19 diagnosis than non-Hispanic white cancer patients in a study published March 28.... Read More

Team Helps Patients Battle Post-COVID Cognitive Issues

Apr 04, 2022 at 09:22 pm by Staff

  Bill Snyder and Nancy Humphrey Jane Storie always considered herself to be a “sunshiny” person. But then, in October 2020, she became ill with COVID-19. N.... Read More

There’s No Slowing Arterial Stiffening

Apr 04, 2022 at 06:34 pm by Staff

by Paul Govern Age related stiffening of the central arterial system is associated with problems such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, stroke, atrial fibrillation an.... Read More