Clinical

Children’s Hospitals Grapple With Wave of Mental Illness

Jan 07, 2021 at 05:09 pm by pj

  By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News    Krissy Williams, 15, had attempted suicide before, but never with pills. The teen was diagnos.... Read More

Heading Off the Next Pandemic

Jan 05, 2021 at 11:54 am by pj

  By Jim Robbins, Kaiser Health News As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging.... Read More

Children’s Hospitals Are Partly to Blame as Superbugs Increasingly Attack Kids

Jan 05, 2021 at 11:48 am by pj

  By Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News A memory haunts Christina Fuhrman: the image of her toddler Pearl lying pale and listless in a hospital bed, tethered to an IV.... Read More

All Available COVID-19 Vaccination Appointments at Orlando Health Booked

Jan 04, 2021 at 09:19 pm by pj

Orlando – Following the successful vaccination of nearly 10,000 medical professionals and other individuals at risk of COVID-19 exposure, Orlando Health&n.... Read More

Diagnosis and Management of Typical and Atypical GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease

Dec 28, 2020 at 10:05 pm by pj

  By BASHER ATIQUZZAMAN, MD   Twenty percent of the United States population has a medical illness called GERD, short for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. Though.... Read More

How to Help Healthcare Heroes Deal with Emotional Stress

Dec 28, 2020 at 09:56 pm by pj

  By GIGI ACEVEDO-PARKER AND WENDY KING   As the coronavirus pandemic continued its spread over the summer, a University of Central Florida health clinic expanded.... Read More

COVID Vaccines Appear Safe and Effective, but Key Questions Remain

Dec 28, 2020 at 09:03 pm by pj

    By Bernard J. Wolfson, Kaiser Health News The recent rollout of two newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s da.... Read More

COVID-19 Therapeutic Treatment is World’s First Synthetic Biological Drug to Receive FDA Approval for Phase III Trials

Dec 23, 2020 at 04:43 pm by pj

Carrimycin’s breakthrough treatment of severe coronavirus symptoms will be tested in nine countries over the first six months of 2021 Carrimycin has become the world&rs.... Read More

Orlando Health Begins Use of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine 

Dec 23, 2020 at 04:09 pm by pj

  Approximately 900 frontline health care workers will receive their first dose of the vaccine at Orlando Health South Lake Hospital.     Orlando Health beg.... Read More

Integrating Behavioral Health Services Helps Reduce Rehospitalization Rates

Dec 22, 2020 at 01:09 pm by pj

  By MARY-CATHERINE SEGOTA, Psy.D.   Reducing hospital readmissions is a national priority seeking to improve health outcomes and enhance care at lower costs. The.... Read More

Inside the First Chaotic Days of the Effort to Vaccinate America

Dec 22, 2020 at 12:26 pm by pj

  By Rachana Pradhan and Lauren Weber and Jay Hancock   Kaiser Health News   One tray of COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical g.... Read More

Many US Health Experts Underestimated Coronavirus … Until It Was Too Late

Dec 22, 2020 at 12:19 pm by pj

  By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News    A year ago, while many Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuh.... Read More

More Americans of All Persuasions are Donning Masks

Dec 22, 2020 at 12:11 pm by pj

  By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News   As apprehension about the pandemic intensifies, more Americans — nearly three-quarters — say they wear mask.... Read More

With Vaccine Delivery, Nursing Homes Must Make a Strong Pitch to Residents

Dec 22, 2020 at 12:07 pm by pj

  By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News  Imagine this: Your elderly mother, who has dementia, is in a nursing home and COVID-19 vaccines are due to arriv.... Read More

AdventHealth Opens Clinics for Pioneering Antibody Therapies for COVID-19 Patients

Dec 22, 2020 at 11:15 am by pj

  A center offering monoclonal therapies is open in Orlando and will expand to Volusia and Lake counties.   COVID-19 patients in Central Florida now have the opti.... Read More

FDA Approves First Adjuvant Therapy for Most Common Type of Lung Cancer

Dec 21, 2020 at 04:19 pm by pj

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tagrisso (osimertinib) as the first adjuvant treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer wh.... Read More

Overdose Deaths Accelerating During COVID-19

Dec 21, 2020 at 11:41 am by pj

    Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever re.... Read More

COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Begins at Orlando Health

Dec 18, 2020 at 06:09 pm by pj

  Team members identified as being at risk of COVID-19 exposure have started receiving the coronavirus vaccine at Orlando Health. The Florida-based health .... Read More

Eight Ways Healthcare Workers Can Combat Traumatic Stress

Dec 17, 2020 at 05:18 pm by pj

  By Mark Goulston, MD and Diana Hendel, PharmD    Healthcare employees on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic face distres.... Read More

AMA Offers Links and Recordings to FAQs for Physicians and Patients on COVID Vaccines

Dec 17, 2020 at 04:56 pm by pj

As the COVID vaccines become available, the AMA has provided a webinar recording and printed answers to questions for physicians and patients about the vaccines.  .... Read More