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Medical innovations poised to transform healthcare in 2021

Jan 18, 2021

(BPT) - Experts in healthcare are continuously striving to develop new innovations that can improve and save lives. Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists, physicians, and researchers continued to advance medical knowledge, enhance screening and diagnostic tools, and improve disease management platforms, bringing new hope to patients in 2021. When it comes to medicine, there's a lot to be excited for in the new year. Here are...

World Braces for Surge of Coronavirus Variants

Jan 18, 2021

A patient arriving at a hospital in Manaus, Brazil, on Thursday. Credit...Michael Dantas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The more contagious coronavirus variant discovered in Britain has now been detected in more than 50 countries, including Argentina on Saturday, and is believed to be driving surges in at least two. But how widely that version of the...

10 Steps to Reform and Improve Nursing Homes

Jan 15, 2021

Expert insights on how the industry should evolve in response to COVID-19 by Sari Harrar, Joe Eaton and Harris Meyer, AARP , January 13, 2021 | Comments: 0 A male nurse helping a man using a walker walk down a nursing home hallway It's complicated. This phrase has become the default and arguably lazy response to many 21st-century challenges. But when...

CVS Health gears up for widespread COVID-19 vaccine distribution at pharmacies

Jan 13, 2021

CINCINNATI — As COVID-19 vaccine distribution ramps up, questions remain about how doses will get out to the public. CVS Health officials said they have the experience to get it done. What the pharmacy chain has learned from administering flu shots and COVID-19 testing will help them get doses out quickly as states move into new phases. "Retail pharmacies are the foundation of the approach here. Both because we...

Nursing Home Vaccine Stories: One CEO’s Personal Appeal to Reduce Hesitancy

Jan 13, 2021

Just as predicted before the rollout began, vaccine hesitancy among nursing home workers stands as a serious barrier to widespread acceptance in long-term care — and, in turn, fully fostering group immunity among the most vulnerable. Battered by COVID-19 and unwilling to trust the institutions that oversaw the deaths of their patients and colleagues, a significant percentage of frontline caregivers have said no to the coronavirus...

LAX Opens Onsite COVID-19 Rapid Testing Lab

Jan 12, 2021

The facility offers three collection sites with results available in as little as three to five hours for a cost of $125 January 05, 2021 by Mark Caswell Los Angeles International Airport has announced the opening of a new COVID-19 rapid testing facility onsite. The cost for the PCR test is $125. The facility includes three collection sites at the airport. The...

US Lawmakers Approve $900 Billion Coronavirus Aid Package

Jan 12, 2021

Problem Solvers Caucus co-chairs Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., at podium, and Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., right, speak to the media with members of their caucus about the expected passage of the emergency COVID-19 relief bill, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, on… The U.S. Congress has passed a massive year-end bill that includes a $900 billion coronavirus aid package and $1.4 trillion...

Summit County nursing home task force releases recommendations to improve conditions

Jan 07, 2021

Summit County nursing homes should consider working with the community to improve the work culture of their caregivers, providing residents with technology and hiring immigrants and refugees to address staffing shortages. These are among the recommendations included in a final report issued Thursday by the Summit County Nursing Homes and Facilities Task Force, a group that's been examining the condition of long-term...

Science and Medicine Group Makes 2021 Predictions for the Lab Instrumentation, Diagnostics and Imaging Industries

Jan 06, 2021

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The unpredictable events of 2020 might cause one to forswear all prediction-making. Yet for Science and Medicine Group's publishing brands (Strategic Directions International, BioInformatics, Kalorama Information, IMV, Instrument Business Outlook) are all in the business of prediction-making. Thus once again, we offer our top ten predictions for 2021 based on our market research...

Health care professionals can decline COVID-19 vaccine — for now

Jan 06, 2021

Millions of health care workers are slated to receive the first batch of potentially lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this month. But not all of them want to be first in line . Only one-third of a panel of 13,000 nurses said they would voluntarily take a vaccine; another third said they wouldn’t and the rest said they were unsure, according to a late October survey by the American Nurses Association....

California paves the way for certification of mental health peer support providers

Jan 05, 2021

In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that paves the way to expand the use of mental health peer providers by setting up a state certification process. That’s expected to cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars to run every year, but could also reduce costly inpatient hospitalizations. The idea behind mental health peer support is this: People who live with a mental illness help...

More Than Just a Job: Allied Health Careers Can Offer a Life-Changing Opportunity

Jan 01, 2021

Life does not always deal an easy hand, and to thrive, one must decide to change the cards. As part of that process, many times, a new career path is required—one that can be discovered at Campbellsville University in Louisville. Leigh Wood, Allied Health program director, describes a life-changing experience for one of her students who is a mother of two and had previously endured many obstacles in her life preventing...

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