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Study shows 76 percent of coronavirus patients improve after plasma transfusion

June 4, 2020 / By Kayla Rivas | Fox News One study conducted at Texas hospitals recently showed convalescent plasma transfusions led to clinical improvement or hospital discharge in 76 percent of coronavirus patients. The study involved 25 patients with severe coronavirus at the Houston Methodist hospitals from late March to April. They were transfused with convalescent plasma from …

ICUs become a ‘delirium factory’ for COVID-19 patients

June 3, 2020 / Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Doctors are fighting not only to save lives from COVID-19, but also to protect patients’ brains. Although COVID-19 is best known for damaging the lungs, it also increases the risk of life-threatening brain injuries — from mental confusion to hallucinations, seizures, coma, stroke and paralysis. The virus …

Malaria drug fails to prevent COVID-19 in a rigorous study

June 3, 2020 / Associated Press A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in health workers and others closely exposed to people with the disease. Results published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine show that …

AHN Partners with MSA Safety to Provide P100 Protective Masks to Clinical Staff on Frontlines of COVID-19 Pandemic

PITTSBURGH, June 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As part of its efforts to assure that frontline caregivers have the personal protective equipment they need to help prevent exposure to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during the current pandemic, Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has partnered with MSA Safety (NYSE: MSA) to procure P100 industrial grade respirators that can be disinfected and reused repeatedly. The Advantage® 200 …

Prevent Cardiac Events in Orthopedic Patients!

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. In the largest ever prospective study on cardiac outcomes after orthopedic surgery, researchers from multiple centers around the globe have determined that sometimes fatal myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) events are quite common after orthopedic surgery. Their work, “Association Between Myocardial Injury and Cardiovascular Outcomes of Orthopaedic Surgery,” appears …

There’s a ‘huge disconnect’ between the stock market and economy. Here’s why

June 3, 2020 / Greg Iacurci Great Depression-era levels of unemployment. An economy in downward spiral. More than 100,000 dead from a killer virus. Cities in flames amid widespread civil unrest. And a stock market that marches ever higher. The recent U.S. market turmoil from the coronavirus pandemic feels like eons ago. The S&P 500 cratered 34% from …

FedEx Logistics Helps in the Fight against COVID-19 by Distributing Personal Protective Equipment to Hospitals throughout Latin America

June 3, 2020 MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FedEx Logistics, Inc., a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), is providing essential supply chain services to support the fight against COVID-19. FedEx is supplying Medline personal protective equipment (PPE) from a FedEx Logistics facility located in the Panama Pacifico Free Trade Zone and Panama, to hospitals in South America, …

World Health Organization resumes coronavirus trial on malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after examining safety concerns

June 3, 2020 / Berkeley Lovelace Jr., William Feuer The World Health Organization is resuming its trial of hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug backed by President Donald Trump to combat the deadly coronavirus, after temporarily halting research over safety concerns.  The Data Safety Monitoring Board decided there was no reason to discontinue the international trial after reviewing available data …

Russians claim to have an effective treatment for the coronavirus, which hospitals will start using this month

June 1, 2020 / Holly Ellyatt Russia has approved an anti-influenza drug, Aviifavir, to treat Covid-19 and will start delivering it to hospitals this month, according to Russia’s sovereign wealth fund. The fund, RDIF, has provided money for Russia’s development and production of the drug which is based on favipiravir, an anti-influenza drug developed in …

Primary care practices fear they may not survive the pandemic

June 3, 2020 / Jennifer Henderson Primary care practices focus on the preventive care that keeps patients healthy. Many of them are small but punch above their weight in providing access to services in underserved communities. A series of new surveys by researchers at NYU have found that the city’s primary care practices have been …

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