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Retired Doctors, Nurses Will Be Approved to Give COVID-19 Vaccine, White House Says

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Retired Doctors, Nurses Will Be Approved to Give COVID-19 Vaccine, White House Says. 27, 2021 — Retired doctors and nurses are being called to the front lines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Professional. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, said Rochelle Walensky, M.D., director of the U.S.

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

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30, 2020 — Nurses 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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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

PLOS: DNA Science

Peter Marinkovich, MD, director of the Blistering Disease Clinic at Stanford Health Care, calls DEB a devastating disease. “Until now, doctors and nurses had no way to stop blisters and wounds from developing on dystrophic EB patient skin and all we could do was to give them bandages and helplessly watch as new blisters formed.

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Alexion Announces Upcoming Data Presentations at the 62nd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition

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The retrospective study shows that prespecified triggers of aHUS were reported in approximately one-third of patients with aHUS, and that long-term clinical disease manifestations persisted in the majority of patients with aHUS who were not treated with SOLIRIS ® (eculizumab). Your doctor will decide if you need additional vaccination.

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Blood Pressure Often Differs Widely Between Two Arms: Study

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Experts said the findings give more support to something that’s been advocated, but not commonly done by doctors and nurses: Checking patients’ blood pressure in both arms. ” Berger directs the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at NYU Langone Health in New York City. And then what?

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Big Spike Seen in COVID Cases Among Kids

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We can help protect everyone in our communities by keeping our physical distance, wearing masks, and following other recommendations from our doctors and public health experts.” She called on policymakers to listen to doctors and public health experts, and not to level “baseless accusations” against them.

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Behçet’s Disease: Diverse manifestations in both brain and body

On Medicine

Behçet’s disease is a rare multisystem vasculitic disorder that can affect any of the blood vessels of the body; signs and symptoms are diverse among individuals and range in severity, but often present as recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, or as complications involving the eyes.

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