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Cardiovascular Risks Increased After Recovery From COVID-19
Even 30 days post-infection, people with COVID-19 are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart failure and thromboembolic disease, researchers found. Case managers and healthcare providers across the care continuum will need to consider a past bout with COVID-19 as a new risk factor for heart problems. -
Telehealth Works, but Younger Patients Prefer Video Calls
Patients older than age 50 years are less likely to have access to smartphones and computers to carry out video visits with providers, researchers noted. -
Case Management-Style Program Improves Pregnancy Health and Outcomes
Healthcare providers can help reduce maternal and infant mortality and improve women’s health during pregnancy by implementing a case management-style program that follows women throughout their pregnancy and for up to a year after they give birth. -
Younger Women at Increasing Risk of Illness, Death in United States
Recent research and reports paint an alarming picture of reproductive-age women’s health in the United States, suggesting societal-level changes and case management attention is needed to reduce avoidable deaths, particularly during pregnancy or recently after giving birth. -
Machine Learning Models Predict Recurrence, Complications Associated with Hernia Repair
Tool could prevent readmissions and repeat procedures while saving millions of dollars.
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Feds Seek Comments on Mail-Back Program for Unused Opioids
Patients could use prepaid envelopes to safely return surplus pain pills.
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Long COVID: The Winding Road Back
Clinical experts working with healthcare professionals who have acquired long COVID say it can be a hard road returning to work, but rehabilitation models used for other chronic conditions are proving helpful.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Mothers, Newborns
COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy issues have been clouded by misinformation, leading women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant to decline immunization. The accumulating evidence strongly suggests vaccination safeguards pregnant women against severe infection and also confers protective immunity to the newborn baby.
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White House Targets Long COVID with Major Interagency Initiative
The Biden administration has launched a major initiative to better understand and treat long COVID, which manifests as brain fog, fatigue, and a panoply of other lingering symptoms in those with SARS-CoV-2.
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OSHA Finalizing COVID-19 Rule in Healthcare Settings
Under the CDC's current guidance for healthcare workers, many requirements for those workers are triggered based on the level of community transmission of COVID-19. Such an approach would create the flexibility many have been calling for, which have come with the warning that requirements set in regulatory stone could quickly be outdated by the changing nature of the pandemic.