Practice Impact

Teens Still Able to Access E-Cigarettes During COVID-19 Pandemic

Dec 4, 2020

THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Underage youth report being able to access...

Everyone Who Gets COVID-19 Vaccine Will Receive Vaccination Card

Dec 4, 2020

THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — All Americans who get a COVID-19 vaccine will get...

Mental Health Symptoms Common for Perinatal Women During COVID-19

Dec 4, 2020

THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Mental health symptoms are common among perinatal...

Visceral Adiposity & COVID-19 Severity

Dec 4, 2020

Data indicate that, depending on the degree of obesity, patients with obesity who are infected...

WHO Trial Finds No Covid-19 Mortality Benefit for Antiviral Drugs

Dec 4, 2020

Antivirals, including remdesiver, failed to reduce ventilation, or length-of-stay Covid-19...

Where COVID Is on the Menu: Failed Contact Tracing Leaves Diners in the Dark

Dec 3, 2020

State and local public health officials are sure that bars and restaurants are spreading COVID. But they don’t always have much concrete evidence to support their convictions.

How COVID-19 Highlights the Uncertainty of Medical Testing

Dec 3, 2020

Widespread COVID testing has revealed uncomfortable truths about medical tests: A test result is rarely a definitive answer, but instead a single clue. A result may be falsely positive or negative, or it may show an abnormality that doesn’t matter. And as COVID testing has made too clear, even an accurate, meaningful result is useless unless it’s acted on appropriately.

Amid COVID and Racial Unrest, Black Churches Put Faith in Mental Health Care

Dec 3, 2020

Black Americans are less likely to receive mental health treatment than the overall population. But as needs soar this year, faith leaders are tapping health professionals to share coping skills churchgoers and the community can use immediately.

As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find

Dec 3, 2020

More than 93,000 COVID patients are hospitalized across the country. But beds and space aren’t the main concern for hospital administrators — It’s the health care workforce.

Admission Hyperglycemia Predicts Mortality in COVID-19

Dec 3, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Among noncritical hospitalized COVID-19 patients,...

Anxiety Doubled in Young People During COVID-19 Pandemic

Dec 3, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Younger people seem to be experiencing increased...

CDC Shrinks COVID-19 Quarantine Time, Advises Against Holiday Travel

Dec 3, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

Covid-19 Vax: ACIP Votes HCPs, Long-Term Patients Should Get First Dibs

Dec 3, 2020

Speeded-up timeline for Pfizer, Moderna vaccines spurs ACIP action The CDC’s Advisory Committee on...

Thousands of Doctors’ Offices Buckle Under Financial Stress of COVID

Dec 2, 2020

Across the nation, primary care practices that were already struggling are closing, victims of the pandemic’s financial fallout. And this is reducing access to health care, especially in rural and other regions already short on doctors.

How Pharma Money Colors Operation Warp Speed’s Quest to Defeat COVID

Dec 2, 2020

A Trump administration maneuver allows executives who are leading the federal effort to keep investments in drug companies that would benefit from the pandemic response.