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Time to Move Away From Using Decontaminated Respirators
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today recommended that healthcare...
Fauci Admits PPE Shortages Drove Up Death Toll
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Dr. Anthony Fauci thanked America’s health care workers, who “every single...
Study IDs Most Common Lingering Symptoms 8 Months After Mild COVID
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Loss of smell, loss of taste, dyspnea, and fatigue are the...
CDC Declares Racism a Serious Public Health Threat
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday declared racism a serious public health threat and outlined steps it will take to address...
More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died of COVID in First Year
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the...
Why Employee COVID Vaccination Mandates May Not Be Legal
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. It’s not clear that employers have the legal right to require employees...
Despite COVID, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Last May, Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit hospital...
Deaths Tied to Reprocessed Urologic Endoscopes, FDA Warns
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning healthcare providers about the risk for potentially life-threatening infections associated with reprocessed endoscopes used for viewing...
Neutral Zone Border-Crossing Parties Risking Infection
BLAINE, Wash. — In the shadows of covid travel restrictions, a 42-acre park on the far western edge of the U.S.-Canadian dividing line has become...
Liability Insurance Premiums Spike Across the US: AMA Report
Liability insurance premiums are rising at a rate not seen in nearly 20 years, according to a new report from the American Medical Association (AMA)....
Did CDC’s Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up COVID Death Toll for HCWs?
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in...
Time’s Up Founder Choo Accused in Harassment Mishandling
Esther Choo, MD, MPH, an emergency medicine physician at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), is one of several leaders at the university accused in...
Vaccines Came Too Late for at Least 400 Medical Workers
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As health care workers in the U.S. began lining up for...
Volunteer Vaccinators Run Into Hurdles
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Jason Gallagher, a licensed pharmacist and professor of infectious diseases at...
Nurse Pinned in Fatal Texas Pileup Climbs Out, Goes to Work
A pediatric nurse whose SUV slid into the 130-plus-car pileup near Fort Worth, Texas, last week crawled out the back hatch, walked almost a mile,...
First Cybersecurity Chief of Medical Devices Takes the Reins
Kevin Fu, PhD, a pioneer in medical device cybersecurity, joined the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this year as expert-in-residence and acting director...
Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine 91.6% Effective, Studies Show
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Phase III clinical trials show Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is...
One Third of Healthcare Workers Leery of Getting COVID Vaccine
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Nearly 60% of those working in a large healthcare system expressed...
Gaps in Data Make It Impossible to Know Who Got the Vaccine
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are...
Top 10 Technology Hazards: Pandemic Plays Key Role
The pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for patient care — difficulties faced each day by clinicians, clinical engineers, IT specialists, supply chain managers, and other...
License Expired? No Problem, Uncle Sam Wants You to Vaccinate
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The federal government has issued a directive that aims to bolster...
How the CARES Act Forgot America’s Most Vulnerable Hospitals
A federal economic relief package passed by Congress in March promised to provide a lifeline for hospitals, particularly those in rural communities where many facilities...
Brazilian Researchers Tracking Reinfection by New Virus Variant
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Just as Brazil surpassed 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 on January 7,...
Controversy Flares Over Ivermectin for COVID-19
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has dropped its recommendation against...
California Urges Stop to 300K COVID-19 Vaccines After Some Fall Ill
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s state epidemiologist is urging a halt...
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