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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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Excess mortality with Alzheimer disease and related dementias as an underlying or contributing cause during pandemic

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

About The Study: This study found that large increases in mortality with Alzheimer disease and related dementias as an underlying or contributing cause of death occurred in COVID-19 pandemic year 1 but were largely mitigated in pandemic year 2. The most pronounced declines were observed for deaths in nursing home/long-term care settings.

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

The Pharma Data

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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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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Vaccines and various response rates

Drug Discovery World

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

The Pharma Data

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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Francis Crick Institute to open ‘Skylab’ in London

Drug Discovery World

MSD and Crick scientists are working together to understand age-related diseases, including the onset of neurodegeneration, by building models of Parkinson’s disease using state-of-the-art stem cell technologies.

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