Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) to Audit STS National Database for Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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HMS’ Audit Is Vital for Maintaining Users’ Confidence in the Society’s Data, Which Supports Quality Improvement and Many Other Uses We are honored to serve the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. We recognize the critical importance of the STS National Database and the vital role of the Society’s annual external audit in supplementing their multiple internal controls. -Leah Heimbach, President and Owner of HMS FAIRMONT, W.V. (PRWEB) February 02, 2021
Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) has been selected by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) to conduct the annual external audit of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery and Intermacs National Databases, starting this month. The audit will examine the accuracy, consistency and completeness of data, to ensure the integrity of the database for
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PITTSBURGH, 2 February, 2021 - Researchers seeking to develop on-demand and behaviorally congruent HIV prevention options for people who practice anal sex are reporting the results of three early phase clinical trials of rectal microbicides at this week s HIV Research for Prevention (HIV R4P) Virtual Conference. The Phase I studies, led by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), found both of two gel-based products well-tolerated, with higher doses of the active drugs likely required to provide protection from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The results are being presented at the oral abstract session, Bottoms Up: New insights about rectal infections and HIV/STI prevention, on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
First large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites open in Alabama
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Alabama’s first large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites opened Monday and Tuesday in Mobile, Auburn and Hoover, a week before more than a million seniors and essential workers in the state become eligible for shots.
Staff and volunteers In Mobile, Lee County and at the Hoover Met will eventually be able to administer more than 1,000 vaccines a day, depending on supply, said Bob Shepard, spokesman for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Shepard said he expected more than 800 vaccines to be administered on Tuesday as the Hoover Met clinic ramps up to full capacity. Some cities and counties have held day-long vaccine clinics, but these are the first efforts to deliver more than a thousand vaccines every day, Monday through Friday.
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators found that inhaling unfragmented hyaluronan improves lung function in patients suffering from severe exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Hyaluronan, a sugar secreted by living tissue that acts as a scaffold for cells, is also used in cosmetics as a skin moisturizer and as a nasal spray to moisturize lung airways. Utilized as a treatment, hyaluronan shortened the amount of time COPD patients in intensive care needed breathing support, decreased their number of days in the hospital, and saved money by reducing their hospital stay.
The study, published online in Respiratory Research, is a good example of how examining the impacts of environmental pollution on the lungs can lead to viable treatments. Several years ago, co-senior author Stavros Garantziotis, M.D., medical director of the Clinical Research Unit at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of
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Five new research networks totaling $3.13 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health will allow investigators to refine and test key concepts that advance the study of emotional well-being. Emotional well-being has been defined as an overall positive state of one’s emotions, life satisfaction, sense of meaning and purpose, and ability to pursue self-defined goals. The opportunity to research emotional well-being and its core components – a sense of balance in emotion, thoughts, social relationships, and pursuits – aligns with NIH’s broader objectives of fostering health promotion and disease prevention. For example, having a sense of purpose in life has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.