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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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Vaccines and various response rates

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This change in our ability to respond to vaccines also makes us vulnerable to infectious disease. KP: Our research is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, and research nurses, and is a collaboration of different research sites with specialist facilities.

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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. TUESDAY, Dec.

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COVID Hospitalizations in U.S. Hit Record High

The Pharma Data

1, 2020 — Yet another grim record for COVID-19 hospitalizations was set on Monday, as more than 96,000 patients battled severe cases of the virus in hospital wards across America. But the number of hospitalizations have risen by more than 12 percent over the past week, the newspaper noted. TUESDAY, Dec. California Gov.

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CDC Director Warns of Dire Winter Ahead for COVID Hospitalizations, Deaths

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Wednesday that the coming winter months might be the darkest period yet in the coronavirus pandemic. Another record-breaking day of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths underscored Redfield’s grim warning. THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 – The head of the U.S. Meanwhile, Brazil passed 6.4

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Regeneron Announces Encouraging Initial Data from COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Trial in Hospitalized Patients on Low-flow Oxygen

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29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Phase 3 program in hospitalized patients to continue based on passing futility analysis on ability to reduce incidence of death or mechanical ventilation. First antibody therapy to demonstrate anti-viral effect in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. TARRYTOWN, N.Y. , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.