I absolutely believe it was beneficial, he said. It was better than sliced bread.
Monoclonal antibody treatments like the one Weiss took and another one produced by Regeneron that was given to President
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There s a level of uncertainty around the value of the antibody treatments, said Marta Wosinska, deputy director at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, speaking last week at an event hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The only available data on the treatments have come from small clinical trials.
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Wolters Kluwer, Health, a global provider of trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions, has announced the integration of DoseMeRx„¢, a Tabula Rasa Healthcare precision dosing solution, with Sentri7s Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) solution. With a single click, pharmacists can review patient-specific parenteral vancomycin dose recommendations calculated automatically using key clinical data such as patient weight, laboratory values, creatinine levels and drug administration times. Dosing and monitoring of vancomycin can be complex, requiring patient data and laboratory results to individualize the dose for each patient, said Charles Cornish, Executive Vice President, Hospitals Business Unit, TRHC. By integrating our precision dosing platform with Wolters Kluwers Sentri7 solution
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Dr. William Winn, left, was the first staff member at Hunt Regional Medical Center to receive an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine from Employee Health Nurse Shanon Young, right, Thursday. The hospital was one of the first in North Texas to receive a shipment of the vaccine by Pfizer.
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Dec 18, 2020
Dr. William Winn, left, was the first staff member at Hunt Regional Medical Center to receive an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine from Employee Health Nurse Shanon Young, right, Thursday. The hospital was one of the first in North Texas to receive a shipment of the vaccine by Pfizer.