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Long-Term Care Workers Often Hold Multiple Jobs

The Pharma Data

21, 2020 — Long-term care workers in nursing homes commonly hold multiple jobs, which may be contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes, according to a study published online Nov. percent of personal care and nursing aides and 6.23 percent of licensed practical nurses and registered nurses held second jobs.

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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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Overcoming Healthcare’s Mountain of Mistrust – Part 2: Payers

Perficient: Drug Development

This is a disappointing reversal for payers, as the 2010 results showed a nine-point gain compared to the 2003 figure. Among those in the healthcare industry, only nursing homes had a lower “Excellent/Good” ranking. Physicians are as well, but they’re in a distant second place compared to nurses.

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Spectral Medical Announces Report on Clinical Implementation of SAMI Amid COVID-19 Published in the Journal of Blood Purification

The Pharma Data

The paper goes on to state, “The results from the nurse questionnaire, as well as the successful deployment of the SAMI in our institution during the pandemic with only 3-hour virtual training support that operating the SAMI is simple and safe. In March 2009, Spectral obtained the exclusive development and commercial rights in the U.S.

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Moderna’s FDA COVID-19 Vaccine Adcom is Thursday, and Expectations are High

The Pharma Data

ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay, with Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Since its founding in 2010, Moderna had raised more than $2.6 pcruciatti / Shutterstock. Yesterday was a historic day as the first person in the U.S., billion in equity financing.

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Genomics/Biobanks/Cohort Studies

Broad Institute

Unemployment reached almost 25% and then declined to under 10% over the next 15 years until the less severe recession in 2009/2010. It was caused primarily by lax monetary policy in the 1980s combined with the ending of trade with the Soviet Union, which had been conducted on a bilateral basis.

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Nurses and NHS staff protest over pay rise 'snub'

The Pharma Data

Hundreds of nurses and NHS staff in Wales are to protest at being excluded from a recent pay rise announcement. One nurse said: “To be ignored felt like a kick in the teeth after what we’ve been through during the pandemic.” “I was so scared I even wrote a will,” said nurse Naomi Jenkins.

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