Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin announced Friday most pandemic restrictions will be scrapped, including early closing times and other curbs on hospitality venues, declaring the country had “weathered the Omicron storm”. The stringent rules, beefed up last month as the variant prompted a surge of new infections—forcing nightclubs to close over the Christmas period—will be […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order Thursday intended to continue offering hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers extra flexibility as they deal with the latest COVID-19 surge driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. The state’s newly inaugurated Republican chief executive also laid out what he called his […]

Approximately one-third of registered randomized, controlled trials for connective tissue diseases are incomplete or unpublished, based on data from 175 studies. “The failure to complete a trial is a waste of time and money, and a missed opportunity to contribute to patient’s health,” Alejandro Brigante, MD, of the Internal Medicine–Rheumatology service at Güemes Sanitorium in […]

Heart disease: Doctor explains how to reduce risk We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The study, which followed the diets of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A validation study supports the use of a clinical scoring system to anticipate whether patients with well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors (WD NETs) will benefit from peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with lutetium-177 (177Lu)-dotatate. Despite the benefit from 177Lu-dotatate for patients with WD NETs, “questions remain about when to sequence the therapy […]

Fauci says Pfizer vaccine could receive authorization for kids UNDER FIVE as early as next month – placing U.S. among countries with lowest age for the shots Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said he expects the Pfizer vaccine to soon be authorized for children younger than five Pfizer is trialing its […]

In order for nurses to lead in health and health care innovation, schools of nursing and nursing programs must think strategically about the knowledge and skills the next generation of nurses will need and then support those innovation needs at all levels of research, education, and practice.   An article recently published in the Journal of […]

Doctor explains how magnesium can aid sleep We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Magnesium deficiency has been understood for years to […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An ongoing first-in-human trial suggests that pancreatic cells grown from stem cells can be safely implanted into patients with type 1 diabetes, and in some cases, begin producing insulin. “I was surprised by how well the device implant and explant surgeries were tolerated by these patients, and to be able […]

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a preclinical model of the leading cause of central vision loss in older individuals and used it to identify new treatment modalities and drug targets. Previously created mouse models have not sufficiently mimicked the characteristics of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in humans. By contrast, the new model, […]