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email article COVID-19 patients treated in a randomized trial with the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin did no better than a placebo group, Colombian researchers said. Median time to recovery among mild COVID-19 patients in the ivermectin group was 10 days versus 12 days among those receiving placebo, and rates of symptom resolution at day 21 were about equal, reported Eduardo López-Medina, MD, of Centro de Estudios en Infectología Pediátrica, and colleagues, writing in But the trial wa...

email article WASHINGTON -- Vaccine hesitancy could be greatly reduced if people had a better chance to talk about COVID-19 vaccination with their primary care physician, public health specialists told the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee. Vaccine efficacy is complex, said Ashish Jha, MD, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, in Providence, Rhode Island, at a hearing Friday. For example, many people dont understand that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which received...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has never been a trailblazer on issues of social and racial justice. As in society as a whole, attitudes at the AMA have changed, albeit at a glacial pace. In 2008, the AMA broke new ground and apologized for its long history of discrimination against Black physicians -- it didnt admit its first Black delegate to its policy-setting House of Delegates until 1950, more than a century after its founding -- and entered on what it calls a path of racial hea...

email article Joe Flores, NP, JD, has been defending nurses against investigations by the Texas Board of Nursing for several years. Flores, a Corpus Christi attorney and part-time hospice care nurse practitioner, rarely turns away these clients. He feels its important they have representation if they have a case. But since the pandemic started, Flores has had to turn away many cases. Demand for his services is up, he says, as nurses are being investigated by the Board even as they struggl...

Three Ways to Bolster Telehealth In the urgency to deploy telehealth programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers may have overlooked key processes that now need attention, according to Figuring out how to accelerate virtual care is no longer enough. Health providers also need to consider three things: whether theyre delivering the best experience; how telehealth fits into their overall care model; and how to build patient trust, especially as concerns about privacy and data bre...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. U.S. life expectancy dropped by a year in the first half of 2020, due to COVID-19 and overdose deaths, according to the CDCs National Center for Health Statistics. Pfizer plans to test a booster shot to address the South African coronavirus variant. ( Reuters) The Hill) Washington Post) Rich countries may end up with a billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses than they need, according to anti-poverty advocacy group ONE Campaign. ( Reuter...

email article Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, well reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh in with an ethical framework to help you learn and prepare. The following case is adapted from Riley and Norma are two elderly residents of the dementia unit at the Shady A...

email article HCA Healthcare completed its $1.5-billion acquisition of western North Carolinas Mission Health in 2019, but the nonprofit sale to a for-profit entity hasnt been without scrutiny. Following reports from the local community of charity care thats difficult for patients to understand and declines in service, a slew of physician departures is now turning heads. Dogwood Health Trust -- a foundation formed with proceeds from the sale to monitor HCAs compliance with obligations o...

Do violent movies like Research linking violent entertainment to aggression retracted after scrutiny Feb. 16, 2021 , 1:00 PM As Samuel West combed through a paper that found a link between watching cartoon violence and aggression in children, he noticed something odd about the study participants. There were more than 3000—an unusually large number—and they were all 10 years old. “It was just too perfect,” says West, a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Virginia Commonwealth Universi...

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