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Rural Patients With Alzheimer Disease Have Shorter Survival

The Pharma Data

26, 2020 — Rural Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) spend more time in nursing homes, receive less home health care, and have shorter survival than their urban counterparts, according to a study published online Oct. The share of survived days spent in nursing homes was 5.7 MONDAY, Oct.

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Comment: Drug discovery and the International Day of Action for Women’s Health

Drug Discovery World

It states: “Although other public funding agencies outside the United States don’t provide such granular detail, one team of researchers looked at almost 9,000 grants awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the country’s main funder of such research, from 2009 to 2020. They found that 5.9%

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World Suicide Prevention Day 2023: the Supporting Adolescents with Self-Harm (SASH) study

On Medicine

Young patient talking to nurse in A&E © Monkey Business / stock.adobe.com We are conducting a pragmatic randomized controlled trial evaluating the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of the intervention in reducing repeat self-harm compared to treatment as usual (TAU). How are we doing it?

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Coronavirus: Health workers' army to be trained to deliver Covid vaccine

The Pharma Data

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this could include training a wider range of existing NHS staff, as well as student doctors and nurses. A rapidly-developed vaccine for H1N1 swine flu in 2009, Pandemrix, was linked to a small number of people developing chronic sleep disorder narcolepsy. Source link.

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The New Fungus Among Us, Candida auris

PLOS: DNA Science

. “What is different and particularly scary about Candida auris is that it can survive on skin and healthcare surfaces up to two weeks, allowing the spread from person-to-person in healthcare settings and nursing homes. The lineages comprising evolutionary trees, from people to viruses, are called phylogenies.

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Genomics/Biobanks/Cohort Studies

Broad Institute

in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. Unemployment reached almost 25% and then declined to under 10% over the next 15 years until the less severe recession in 2009/2010. Daniel Hochbaum Daniel Hochbaum Daniel Hochbaum, Harvard Medical School Daniel Hochbaum, Ph.D. earned his Ph.D.

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Neurobiology & Organismal Biology

Broad Institute

in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Importantly, preliminary data from our recent pilot analysis of gut microbiome data of a subgroup of women (with Trauma-no-PTSD vs. PTSD) within the Nurses’ Health Study II identified multiple putative PTSD-causal species/pathways. He received his Ph.D.