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Giving Back: Once a Lung Transplant Recipient, Now a Surgical Nurse

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30, 2020Nurses are known for being kind, caring and sympathetic, but Brianna Fogelman brings an uncommon empathy to her nursing job at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. Though she had always planned to become a nurse, it wasn’t until after her transplant that it felt like more of a calling, Fogelman said.

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Rural Patients With Alzheimer Disease Have Shorter Survival

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Rural Patients With Alzheimer Disease Have Shorter Survival. 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.

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Health Care Workers, Nursing Home Residents to Get First Vaccines: Panel

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1, 2020 — Health care workers and people in nursing homes should be at the front of the line for upcoming COVID-19 vaccines, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel recommended Tuesday. © 2020 HealthDay. Posted: December 2020. TUESDAY, Dec. ” More Information. Source link.

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Health Highlights: Dec. 28, 2020

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday. “Today I’m here as a citizen, but most of all as a nurse, to represent my category and all the health workers who choose to believe in science,” Claudia Alivernini, the first person to be vaccinated at the Spallanzani infectious disease hospital in Rome, told the AP.

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Diets High in Inflammatory Potential Linked to Cardiovascular Disease

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3, 2020 — Dietary patterns with higher inflammatory potential are associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), and stroke, according to a study published in the Nov. © 2020 HealthDay. Posted: November 2020. TUESDAY, Nov. Jun Li, M.D., from the Harvard T.H.

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Even Winter Carries Skin Cancer Risks for College Students

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24, 2020 – Researchers from two universities in Utah have a warning for students planning to hit the slopes or play in the snow without sunscreen: You could greatly increase your risk of skin cancer. A survey of students by Brigham Young University College of Nursing in Provo found that only 9% use sunscreen. © 2020 HealthDay.

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Children with Arthritis Living in Less Affluent Families More Likely to Report Longer Duration of Morning Joint Stiffness

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Parents and physicians should be aware that morning joint stiffness may indicate early disease symptoms of polyarticular JIA and serve as a more reliable indicator than pain. Polyarticular JIA is a chronic form of the disease with symptoms of pain, swelling, stiffness or warmth in four or more joints. NEW YORK , Nov. NEW YORK , Nov.

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