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Opill Rollout Includes Major Pharmacies and Retailers — but Price Tag Needs Work
The rollout of the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill, Opill, is a major step toward improving contraception access across the United States. But some obstacles remain, including cost and access for minors in places hostile to reproductive autonomy.
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‘I Need My Brain!’: Horrors of Long COVID in HCWs
A systematic review of studies on healthcare workers who experienced long COVID in the United Kingdom revealed that many struggled to separate their clinical identity from that of a patient. Healthcare workers with various symptoms of long COVID endured over different lengths of time recognized the uncertainty of their symptoms of this poorly understood syndrome and feared they would be perceived as a burden.
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An Old Pro Stays in the Fight Against Needlesticks
At age 78, with more than 50 years of clinical consultation and research on needlesticks, sharps injuries, and medical waste, Terry Grimmond, FASM, BAgrSc, GrDpAdEdTr, says he retired at the end of 2023 but is still winding his career down with a few final projects.
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Is Measles Elimination Status at Risk? Antivaxers Attack MMR Vaccine
As the number of measles cases in the United States already has outstripped total cases for last year, employee health professionals should prepare for incoming cases that can wreak havoc in a hospital if undetected. Even if staff are fully immunized, all bets are off if an undiagnosed case of measles gets into a healthcare facility.
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Healthcare Workers, CDC at Odds Over COVID Precautions
Inundated with criticism from healthcare workers, highly vulnerable patients, and those with long COVID, advisors to the CDC must make a Solomonic decision. At a time when the CDC is trying to simplify and normalize community precautions for SARS-CoV-2, initial efforts to do so in the hospital have backfired spectacularly.
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Novel Psychoactive Substances of Abuse: Part II
This is the second of a two-part series. Part I reviewed stimulants and started the discussion of hallucinogens and psychedelics. Part II will finish the discussion of hallucinogens and conclude with novel sedative drugs.
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ED Hospice Referrals Improve Care and Decrease Length of Stay
Many ED patients who could benefit from hospice care are instead admitted to the hospital.
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Health System Debuts a Virtual ED to Improve Access to Care, Facilitate Load Balancing
Seeing all the ways technology could be leveraged to deliver care to patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency medicine leaders in the Manchester, NH-based Elliot Health System recently have considered how they might optimize their use of telemedicine going forward.
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Communication Is Major Contributing Factor to ED Malpractice Claims
Emergency department (ED) malpractice claims frequently contain allegations that delayed diagnoses led to poor outcomes or death. “Many times, the primary contributing factor is lack of communication,” according to Jacqueline Ross, RN, PhD, coding director in the department of patient safety and risk management at The Doctors Company.
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Experts Offer Roadmap for Improving Care of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in the ED
When a patient with sickle cell disease (SCD) presents to the ED, it is likely because he or she is experiencing excruciating pain from a vaso-occlusive episode — a condition that occurs when sickle-shaped red blood cells get stuck while traveling through small blood vessels, impeding blood flow.