Report details nonfatal traffic-related pedestrian injuries presenting to the ED
May 02, 2024
The overall visit proportion was 45.62 per 100,000 visits to the emergency department.
Long-term study of postmenopausal women does not support many preventive therapies
May 02, 2024
Hormone therapy was no aid for cardiovascular disease prevention, and calcium/vitamin D supplementation was no aid for universal fracture prevention.
Leaders debate what to change, retain in senior living
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 01, 2024
PHOENIX—If there was one good thing to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was “everyone opening the kimono,” being raw and asking for help, according to a panel of C-suite senior living experts...
USPSTF recommends breast cancer screening for women aged 40 to 75 years
Apr 30, 2024
Insufficient evidence was seen for screening older women and for supplemental screening for women with dense breasts.
Assisted living model could be threatened by long-term care workforce proposal
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 30, 2024
A proposed federal bill includes substantial new funding for long-term care workforce development, but it potentially threatens the assisted living model by including the setting with more clinical ones,...
Bilingual, US-based employees staff RiverSpring call center
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 30, 2024
RiverSpring Health Plans, based in The Bronx, NY, said it is setting its call center apart from others in the industry with more than a dozen employees who speak multiple languages, including Spanish,...
Machine learning, predictive analytics drive successful sepsis reduction program
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 30, 2024
A new sepsis watch program that uses predictive analytics to improve clinical workflows cut sepsis mortality rates by nearly one-third.
Biden administration delays menthol cigarette ban
Apr 29, 2024
A long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes has been delayed indefinitely, the Biden administration said Friday.
Two-thirds of survivors of the most severe COVID-19 face impairment at one year
Apr 26, 2024
Physical, psychiatric and cognitive problems were seen in those discharged to long-term acute care hospitals.
Gains in heart failure mortality have been erased
Apr 26, 2024
The declines seen in heart failure mortality rates from 1999 to 2012 were reversed from 2012 to 2021.