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Sleepy Nurses Vulnerable To Common Cold, Other Infectious Diseases

Drugs.com

MONDAY, March 10, 2025 -- Sleep-deprived night shift nurses are at greater risk for the common cold and other infectious diseases, a new study says.Shift work and its impact on quality sleep can wreak havoc on nurses immune systems, making them m.

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

The Pharma Data

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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Rural Patients With Alzheimer Disease Have Shorter Survival

The Pharma Data

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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Gut microbiome changes align with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Broad Institute

If you only study a small, homogeneous population, you will probably miss something," said co-corresponding author Daniel (Dong) Wang, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and of nutrition at Harvard Chan School, and an associate member of Broad's Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program (IDMP).

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Diets High in Inflammatory Potential Linked to Cardiovascular Disease

The Pharma Data

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. TUESDAY, Nov. 10 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Jun Li, M.D., from the Harvard T.H.

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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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FAU receives $1.3 million grant for Alzheimer’s outreach in Broward County

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Lynn College of Nursing, has been awarded a three-year, $1.3 million grant from the Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative for a groundbreaking project designed to advance health equity and improve quality of life for individuals living with […]

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