AMA Delegates Spar Over Medicaid Coverage for Undocumented Pregnant Women
CHICAGO — Medicaid coverage for undocumented pregnant women, as well as those up to 12 months’ postpartum, garnered intense debate at a Sunday reference committee hearing during the virtual American Medical Association (AMA) special meeting of its House of Delegates. The debate came during a discussion of a resolution from the Medical Student Section asking […]
WHO Reports ‘Substantial’ Drop In Global COVID-19 Cases. U.S. Stays Elevated.
Global coronavirus cases saw their “first substantial decline” in more than two months last week, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday. Yet cases in the U.S. continue to remain highly elevated, particularly among children, according to a separate pediatric report. New COVID-19 cases fell over the last week in all six global regions the WHO […]
Physical distance may not be enough to prevent viral aerosol exposure indoors: Architectural engineering team investigated the effects of physical distancing, building ventilation as control strategies
Eighteen months ago, stickers began to dot the floors of most shops, spaced about six feet apart, indicating the physical distance required to avoid the COVID-19 virus an infected person may shed when breathing or speaking. But is the distance enough to help avoid infectious aerosols? Not indoors, say researchers in the Penn State Department […]
More Data in Support of Surgery for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) lived 6 months longer, on average, when they had surgery in addition to chemotherapy, a large retrospective analysis showed. The addition of surgery to combination chemotherapy resulted in a median overall survival (OS) of 22 months as compared with 16 months with chemotherapy alone. Twice as many patients remained […]
How Long Is a Person Contagious With Mono?
After exposure to the virus, someone with mono can be contagious for months, even before symptoms start and after symptoms subside Infectious mononucleosis, also called mono, is a contagious disease most commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). It’s unclear how long someone with mono is contagious, although they are definitely contagious while they have […]
New Study Shows Just How Much Kids’ Mental Health Has Suffered In The Pandemic
Anyone who has cared for or spent time around a child during the past 18 months knows how difficult the COVID-19 pandemic has been on them emotionally. Now, one of the largest studies on children’s mental health during the pandemic to date shows just how significant the toll has been, indicating that 1 in 4 […]
Taking Care of Our Patients When Time Is Fleeting
After spending the last few months getting ready for a large accreditation survey for our hospital, and having survived the last week with all the surveyors on campus looking into every nook and cranny, it’s made us rethink how we do things, how we need to work to be so much better, and how hard […]