Doctor recommends celebrating Valentine s Day at home this year
and last updated 2021-02-01 23:44:15-05
As the holiday of love and affection nears, a word of advice from a medical expert: Spend Valentine s Day only with your loved ones and close family members.
As the US approaches a year s worth of shutdowns, closures, illnesses and sadness, Dr. Beth Thielen, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Minnesota Medical School, advises we carefully approach Valentine s Day, even if COVID-19 fatigue is setting in.
She is concerned that simple Valentine s Day traditions such as exchanging candies could spread the coronavirus.
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MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB) February 01, 2021
Cirtec Medical Corporation, a strategic outsourcing partner for complex medical devices including active implantables, minimally invasive devices and novel catheter-based delivery systems, today announced a sponsor-initiated withdrawal of the premarket approval (PMA) for the Nuvectra Algovita Spinal Cord Stimulation System. The System was an FDA and CE Mark approved neurostimulation system with no open field actions at the time of acquisition. The withdrawal of the PMA and subsequent creation of the Device Master File aligns with Cirtec’s strategy to support Academic, Research and Commercial partners with design, development, and manufacturing of active implantable device.
After vaccination, many ask what activities are safe. Answers are still scarce.
MN doctors who have received both doses, say they re not rushing back to normal. Here s why. Author: Kent Erdahl Updated: 1:53 AM CST February 2, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS In the next month, nearly half a million Minnesotans will have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
So far 116,000 Minnesotans, mainly healthcare workers, have already reached that milestone, and many say life has both changed in one way, but not in another. My day-to-day life has not changed significantly after having the vaccine, said Dr. Hannah Lichtsinn, a physician in Minneapolis. But my personal stress level has because I know my risk of getting very sick has gone down.
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MINNEAPOLIS- February 2, 2021 - In Minnesota, there are currently about 60 diseases that all newborns are screened for at birth using a heel prick and a few drops of blood. Of all the screenable disorders combined, newborn infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) is most common, and it is ranked as the most prevalent infectious disease in the U.S. and Europe that causes birth defects, long-term disabilities and deafness in babies.
Yet, current routine screening practices do not include monitoring for CMV. The lack of blood spot screening may be due to past studies not showing a good enough detection rate for CMV, using the blood spot test, that would be sufficiently sensitive to justify universal screening.