Nurses News

• COVID-19 and Risk of Clotting: 'Be Proactive About Prevention' How best to manage the increased risk of arterial and venous thrombosis in COVID-19 patients is the subject of a new review article.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• California Urges Hospitals to Test All Workers for Virus A letter from the California Dept of Public Health recommended hospitals test healthcare workers weekly because they are at high risk of contracting COVID-19 and spreading it to other patients.
  Associated Press, November 30, 2020
• Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed's Quest to Defeat COVID Moncef Slaoui, a Moderna board member and longtime drug industry executive, was awarded options to buy 18,270 shares in the company, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
  Kaiser Health News, November 30, 2020
• FDA Says It Won't Object to Dry Heat Use on N95 Respirators The new policy, which recognizes the ongoing PPE shortage amid the COVID-19 pandemic, goes into effect immediately.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• AASLD 2020 AASLD 2020: A Clinical News Roundup 'We chose papers that had the highest level of evidence, such as randomized controlled trials, controlled studies, and large datasets -- and some small datasets too,' said Tamar Taddei, MD, Yale Univ.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• FDA Clears First Drug for Rare Genetic Causes of Severe Obesity Setmelanotide (Imcivree) is indicated for weight management in adults and children as young as 6 years with severe obesity driven by genetic deficits in the melanocortin-4 receptor pathway.
  FDA Approvals, November 30, 2020
• Dutch National Body Affirms Misconduct Findings, Retracts Paper Seeing this behavior recurring and steadily escalating, and seeing other people in the situations we had been in, led us to feel like we could no longer stay silent.
  Retraction Watch, November 30, 2020
• Employers Decide Whether to Report Healthcare Worker Deaths Workplace safety regulators have given employers broad discretion to decide internally whether to report worker deaths. Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials.
  Kaiser Health News, November 30, 2020
• Many Die From Snakebites Despite the Availability of Antivenom Snakebites may have claimed nearly 65,000 lives globally last year and are accountable for 3 million years of life lost, placing them at the top of the list of neglected tropical diseases, a new modeling study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 27, 2020
• River Blindness May Have Stopped Spreading in Most of the Americas The spread of river blindness, or onchocerciasis, may have been halted in nearly two-thirds of the 34,000 people who remain at risk in the Americas, new evidence suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 27, 2020
• HIV, TB Tests Fall in East Europe and Central Asia Due to COVID-19 Testing for HIV and tuberculosis has fallen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during the coronavirus pandemic and could lead to higher mortality rates, a UN special envoy for AIDS said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• EU Seeks to Bypass Patents to Boost Drugs Access in Crises The European Union is planning bold measures to boost its access to drugs, from sidestepping patent rights in emergencies to offering incentives for companies to shift production to Europe, according to EU documents published on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• Many Title X Clinics in Southern US Refer Young Women Elsewhere for PrEP More than a third of Title X family planning clinics in the southern US don't provide any services related to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020
• Biden Fractures Foot, Will Wear Orthopedic Boot Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline fractures of President-elect Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones. It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks.
  WebMD Health News, November 30, 2020
• COVID-19 May Hurt Male Fertility Evidence of testes damage from COVID-19 has been accumulating in a series of small autopsy studies, suggesting that the new coronavirus could have an impact on male fertility.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• When and How Will COVID-19 Vaccines Become Available? Pfizer with partner BioNTech and Moderna have released trial data showing their COVID-19 vaccines to be about 95% effective at preventing the illness, while AstraZeneca Plc this week said its vaccine could be up to 90% effective.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• AstraZeneca CEO Says Co Likely to Run New Global Trial on COVID-19 Vaccine: Bloomberg News AstraZeneca is likely to run an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine, according to the company's Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• Berlin Plans Six Vast COVID-19 Vaccination Centres Handling 4000 People a Day Berlin is racing to open six mass vaccination centres capable of handling up to 4000 people per day by mid-December, the project coordinator told Reuters on Thursday, as the city waits for authorities to approve the first vaccines.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• When and Which COVID-19 Vaccines Are Likely to Be Available in Asia Pfizer with partner BioNTech SE, Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca have released trial data this month showing their experimental vaccines are effective in preventing the disease.
  Reuters Health Information, November 26, 2020
• WHO Experts Would Like to Go to Wuhan, China, to Probe COVID-19 Origin Researchers led by the World Health Organization would like to go back to a wholesale food market in Wuhan in China to follow up initial cases of COVID-19 which emerged in the city and investigate how the virus probably first spread from bats.
  Reuters Health Information, November 25, 2020