Nursing News

• Gene Expression Different in Allergic, Irritant Contact Dermatitis Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify biomarkers to distinguish between contact dermatitis (CD) due to allergic reactions or to irritants, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, January 01, 2021
• Children May Be Missing Vaccinations During Pandemic If a study from Colorado is any indication, children and adolescents have been missing recommended vaccinations during the pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, January 01, 2021
• Parents Often Decide on Their Own They Want Tonsillectomy for Children's Sleep Apnea Many parents with children who experience obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (OSDB) have a preference for tonsillectomy to improve the apnea and often aren't looking for guidance on treatment choices, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• US Treatment of Children at Southern Border Is 'Torture': Pediatricians The punitive policies against children at the US-Mexico border, such as separating minors from their families, has risen to a level to be classified as torture, according to a group of pediatricians and community health specialists.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• Minority Children More Likely Than Whites to Be Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Minority children may be more likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 than white children, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• Fauci: Vaccinations Are Increasing in a 'Glimmer of Hope' Anthony Fauci, MD, said on ABC's "This Week" that President-elect Joe Biden's pledge to administer 100 million shots of the vaccine within his first 100 days in office is achievable.
  Associated Press, January 04, 2021
• Invasive Tests Prompted by Cancer Screening Show High Real-World Complication Rate In real-world circumstances, procedures such as biopsy indicated by lung-cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography may not go quite as smoothly as indicated by the NLST, according to an updated analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, January 01, 2021
• Mouth Bacteria Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Never Smokers The type and abundance of bacteria found in the mouth may be associated with lung-cancer risk in people who have never smoked, according a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 01, 2021
• BioNTech Founders Warn of Vaccine Supply Gaps: Spiegel BioNTech is working flat out with partner Pfizer to boost production of their COVID-19 vaccine, its founders said, warning there would be gaps in supply until other vaccines were rolled out.
  Reuters Health Information, January 01, 2021
• World Health Organization Lists Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine for Emergency Use The World Health Organization on Thursday listed the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use, saying the move opens the door for countries to expedite their own approvals to import and give the shot.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• US Vaccinations in 2020 Falling Far Short of Target of 20 Mln People Only about 2.8 million Americans had received a COVID-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the government's target to vaccinate 20 million people this month.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• The Cat’s Meow: Felines as Seizure Detectors? The case of a woman who reported that her cat would alert her with a distinctive meow right before a seizure was a bit of a head scratcher for clinicians.
  Medscape Medical News, January 04, 2021
• British Family Doctors Criticise Change of Plan on Vaccine Boosters British doctors have said a government decision to delay giving a coronavirus vaccine booster shot to vulnerable patients who have already had a first dose will be distressing and disruptive, their trade union said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Confirmed in NEJM Study Among people who received mRNA-1273, the incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 was 94.1% lower than among those who received placebo, investigators report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, December 31, 2020
• Two Genes in Prefrontal Cortex Implicated in PTSD A postmortem analysis of brain tissue from people diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder revealed that two genes in the prefrontal cortex, ELFN1 and UBA7, play key roles in the condition.
  Reuters Health Information, December 31, 2020
• Higher Red-Cell Transfusion Limit for Preemies Offers No Survival, Developmental Benefit Aggressive use of red-cell transfusion for extremely-low-birth-weight newborns with anemia does not improve survival and fails to stem neurodevelopmental impairment by age 2, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, December 30, 2020
• Flu Season: No Effect on Elective Heart Surgery Result in Seniors Among seniors who underwent elective heart surgery during influenza seasons, "no consistent associations" were seen between the severity of the season and risk of death or readmission.
  Reuters Health Information, December 30, 2020
• ALBI Likely Bests MELD-Na for Outcomes Prediction Across Surgeries The Albumin-Bilirubin score more accurately predicted outcomes in patients undergoing pulmonary, elective colorectal and adrenal operations than the Model for End Stage Liver Disease-sodium.
  Reuters Health Information, December 30, 2020
• Severe Sepsis Mortality Worse for Black Children in US South, West Black children with severe sepsis are more likely to die in the hospital than White children, especially when they're treated at hospitals in the southern and western US, according to new findings.
  Reuters Health Information, December 30, 2020
• Face Masks Protect Wearers, Others From COVID: Studies Two new literature reviews suggest face masks provide some protection to the wearer and when universally worn by the general public they substantially reduce the spread of the new coronavirus.
  Reuters Health Information, December 30, 2020