Cerner announced Monday that it has inked new contracts with seven new hospitals for its cloud-based CommunityWorks EHR, which is designed for community and critical access hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS The company says the technology is well-suited for the unique needs of these small hospitals as they grapple with geographic isolation,…
Celebrities Who Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus
Novak Djokovic The coach of Arsenal Football Club — one of the most popular soccer teams in the English Premier League — tested positive for coronavirus this week. Coach Arteta was diagnosed with COVID-19 late Thursday night, prompting Arsenal’s full first-team squad, coaching staff and other personnel to immediately go…
Dust mite allergens activate the pulmonary immune system, triggering allergies
A research team at MedUni Vienna, working in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has discovered how certain dust mite allergens activate a well-known inflammatory factor—serum amyloid A protein –and can thus “trim” the lung tissue “in the direction of allergy.” The results were recently published in Nature…
Green tea mouthwashes against dental plaque and gingival inflammation – natural healing naturopathic specialist portal
Dental plaque & Gums inflammation: Green tea as an antidote? Dental plaque and gingival inflammation are common Complaints that can in the long term, have far-reaching health consequences. A simple remedy for the complaints, however, could be rinsing with a mouthwash made from green tea. Catechin-containing mouthwash made from green…
Medicare data: Blacks likelier to be hospitalized for COVID
Blacks were nearly four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized with COVID-19 among people with Medicare, the government said Monday. The analysis from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also found that having advanced kidney disease was an even more severe risk indicator for hospitalization than…
Flu vaccine associated with small increased risk for subdeltoid bursitis
Influenza vaccination was associated with a small risk for subdetltoid bursitis in a large retrospective cohort study, an association that was previously supported by clinical evidence from case reports. Education and training on proper injection technique could prevent this adverse event. Findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Subdeltoid…
Quibi Show Staff Was One of NYC's First Coronavirus Clusters, with 16 Members Testing Positive
The coronavirus pandemic hit very close to home for the staff of 60 in 6, a bite-sized version of 60 Minutes, which airs on the app Quibi. In early March, as the first cases of COVID-19 were being reported in the United States and before Quibi had even launched, the…
Recreational pot laws may boost traffic deaths, studies say
Laws legalizing recreational marijuana may lead to more traffic deaths, two new studies suggest, although questions remain about how they might influence driving habits. Previous research has had mixed results and the new studies, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, can’t prove that the traffic death increases they found were…
A man who can’t see numbers provides new insight into awareness
By studying an individual with an extremely rare brain anomaly that prevents him from seeing certain numbers, Johns Hopkins University researchers provided new evidence that a robust brain response to something like a face or a word does not mean a person is aware of it. The work, set to…
The relationship between looking/listening and human emotions
Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology report that the relationship between attentional states in response to pictures and sounds and the emotions elicited by them may be different in visual perception and auditory perception. This result suggests visual perception elicits emotions in all attentional states, whereas auditory perception elicits emotions…