COVID-19

Outside of the loss of human life due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the past two years have greatly affected hospitals, health systems and the way providers deliver care. Healthcare executives are grappling with federal monetary assistance, growing burnout rates, workforce shortages and federal oversight of vaccines and testing. This channel is also designed to update clinicians on new research and guidelines regarding COVID patient treatment strategies and risk assessments.

Even two years after recovery, damage to multiple regions of the brain persists in COVID patients
On imaging some former COVID patients show significant alterations in several parts of the brain related to emotional regulation.
COVID-19 vaccines helped heart failure patients stay out of the hospital and live longer
Vaccination was linked to key benefits in terms of all-cause mortality, heart failure hospitalizations, stroke, heart attack, myocarditis, venous thromboembolism and testing positive for COVID-19.
Worries rise over bird flu in cows
Infectious disease experts are ratcheting up their watchfulness of the H5N1 influenza virus. That’s because the strain of “bird flu” has continued turning up in domestic livestock.
Bird flu in cows: Interesting anomaly or troubling harbinger of things to come?
The avian influenza virus H5N1 has only turned up in two humans in the U.S., but its recent spread to dairy cattle has some experts on at least slightly elevated alert.
Measles is on the march from airports to places near us
The U.S. eradicated measles in 2000. Today it’s making a comeback. What explains the unhappy revival?

How radiology should prepare for AUC clinical decision support reporting requirements. CMS to require AUC CDS January 1, 2023.

Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine the latest to cancel its in-person conference

SIIM said the decision was influenced by both continued travel restrictions among its members and a desire to quell the spread of COVID-19.

April 28, 2020

Is a COVID showdown ahead between Google–Apple and governments?

Governments around the world have their own COVID contact-tracing apps already up and running—and several U.S. states have indicated they like their own solutions just fine.

April 28, 2020

5 notable quotes from COVID-19 physicians

Several physicians on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19 have taken to the pages of online and print publications to share their firsthand experiences.

April 28, 2020

New research highlights the connection between venous thromboembolism and COVID-19

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients experience a high rate of thromboembolic complications, according to new findings published in Thrombosis Research.

April 28, 2020

Treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, leads to more deaths

In addition to these latest findings, a NIH-backed panel is now specifically recommending against the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for treating COVID-19 patients.

April 22, 2020

Facebook still a favorite soapbox for COVID-19 fibbers

The media watchdog NewsGuard has compiled a list of Facebook users who seem only too happy to “repeat, share and amplify” everything from quack cures to conspiracy theories.

April 21, 2020

Hospital staff walking through a medical facility, intentionally blurred to look artistic

CMS allowing some providers to restart in-person care unrelated to COVID-19

CMS has announced that healthcare providers in communities experiencing low numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases may be able to once again provide more in-person care unrelated to the virus.

April 21, 2020

Heart attack care during a pandemic: Medical societies share COVID-19 recommendations

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed patient care in countless ways, but percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains the recommended standard of care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.

April 21, 2020

COVID-19

Even two years after recovery, damage to multiple regions of the brain persists in COVID patients

COVID-19 vaccines helped heart failure patients stay out of the hospital and live longer

Worries rise over bird flu in cows

Bird flu in cows: Interesting anomaly or troubling harbinger of things to come?

Measles is on the march from airports to places near us