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email article The pandemic took a heavy toll on frontline healthcare workers, especially nurses, prompting our team to look into whether states would be prepared to handle a potential influx of nurses needing help with substance use disorders. Our reporting led us to alternative-to-discipline programs, which are charged with getting nurses back on the job while protecting patient safety. Over the past two decades, these programs have become the standard in nurse rehabilitation -- but ou...

email article Physician assistants (PAs) reported high job satisfaction in 2020, despite much of the year being marked by the pandemic, and the field continues to grow. Thats according to the annual Statistical Profile of Certified PAs, released this week by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). In the survey, which had a response rate of 85.9%, nearly three-quarters of PAs reported strong job satisfaction, with 72.9% saying they were "completely or mos...

email article While the Olympic games were cancelled due to the pandemic last year, Japan and host city Tokyo ironically are experiencing higher COVID-19 case numbers than last summer, with a 7-day average of about 5,000 cases. To mitigate spread, the Olympics are bubbled and devoid of fans. So how are precautions playing out on the ground? MedPage Today has spoken with three team doctors since the games officially began last Friday, who note that organizers have taken many other additio...

email article Young people were more likely to be initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) during the pandemic, while there was a significant increase in the number of new-onset pediatric T2D cases during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 crisis, researchers reported. Most of these cases involved non-Hispanic Black children and males, according to presentations at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) virtual meeting. The researchers rationale for conducting these studies of pedi...

Data should be from completed phase III trials, not interim results, group says

email article More than 100 current and former employees of Houston Methodist are suing the medical system for mandating that employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face termination. Houston Methodist, a seven-hospital system, is being charged with wrongful discharge and violating a federal law dictating "that where a medical product is unapproved then no one may be mandated to take it," according to the lawsuit, shared with MedPage Today by the employees joint attorney. The 117 pl...

email article Leaders of the White Houses COVID-19 task force refused to completely discount a popularly held theory that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. During a press briefing on Tuesday, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said "we dont know 100%" where the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 came from. "We feel strongly, all of us, that we should continue with the investigation and go to the next phase of the investigation that the [World Health Organization] has don...