As school officials debate whether to reopen this fall, physicians, teachers, and a prominent ethicist markedly disagreed on whether sending children back into the classroom is safe for their communities. Some pediatricians are driving the push to reopen, while infectious
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More than a dozen registered nurses at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton, Florida, protested outside the hospital Friday, the third such protest since the pandemic began, saying hospital owner HCA Healthcare won’t give them N95 masks unless they are working
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Hundreds of registered nurses marched outside the 478-bed Riverside Community Hospital in California for eight hours Monday during the fourth day of a 10-day strike. They accuse their administrators of ordering staff reductions that have resulted in dangerously high nurse-to-patient ratios that
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Overcoming vaccine hesitancy and access issues has become even more critical because of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts argued at a recent webinar hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. “Strengthening vaccine access and confidence today is
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As nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd enter their fourth week, the American Thoracic Society is calling for a moratorium on the use of tear gas and other chemical agents to control demonstrators. On Thursday, ATS officials issued
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Chronic pain patients expressed high satisfaction with medical cannabis despite clinically insignificant changes in pain scores, a prospective study showed. Of a subset of chronic pain patients who used both medical cannabis and opiate drugs, 76% successfully tapered their opioid
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Before COVID-19, Mollie Biewald, MD, was skeptical about using telemedicine for palliative care visits. But now, she has found herself holding iPads or iPhones at the patient bedside, helping families make difficult decisions. Over the past few weeks, some of
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Patients recovering from COVID-19 may face a second battle—coping with the disease’s mental health ramifications in the form of “post-intensive care syndrome” (PICS). This is particularly true for the sickest of the sick who require time in the ICU and
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The average American child’s diet improved considerably from 1999 to 2016, with less soda and more fruits and vegetables, though unhealthy diets remained the rule rather than the exception, researchers reported. Analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
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State child access prevention (CAP) laws were linked with a 13% relative reduction in childhood firearm-related fatalities compared with states without such laws in the years 1991-2017, according to an analysis of CDC data. So-called “negligence laws,” in which caregivers
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