Clinical

Packed Bars Serve Up New Rounds Of COVID Contagion

Jun 25, 2020 at 04:19 pm by pj

    Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News and Elizabeth Lawrence    Officials in Texas and Florida announced Friday they were closing bars in those states to.... Read More

Fearing The Deadly Combo Of COVID-19 And Cancer

Jun 25, 2020 at 04:12 pm by pj

(Photos courtesy of Katherine O’Brien) Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News Three Tuesdays each month, Katherine O’Brien straps on her face mask and journeys abou.... Read More

Cities Brace For ‘Collision Course’ Of Heat Waves And COVID-19

Jun 25, 2020 at 04:05 pm by pj

Brett Dahlberg, WXXI, Kaiser Health News Aaron McCullough brought his 3-year-old daughter, Ariana, to a playground in a leafy neighborhood of Rochester, New York, on a day in.... Read More

Drinking Surged During The Pandemic. Do You Know The Signs Of Addiction?

Jun 25, 2020 at 03:46 pm by pj

  Alex Smith, KCUR, Kaiser Health News Despite the lack of dine-in customers for nearly 2½ long months during the coronavirus shutdown, Darrell Loo of Wald.... Read More

Latest Florida DOH COVID-19 Information and Updates

Jun 25, 2020 at 04:30 am by pj

     Florida COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard       Up-to-date information and guidance on COVID-19 with the Florida DOH  &nb.... Read More

St. Jude Creates Resource for Pediatric Brain Tumor Research

Jun 23, 2020 at 06:04 pm by pj

Corresponding and co-senior author Martine Roussel, Ph.D., St. Jude Tumor Cell Biology, helped create O-PDX models to speed discovery and test novel therapies f.... Read More

Is A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Coming, Or are We Still in the First? 

Jun 23, 2020 at 04:20 pm by pj

    Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact    As Americans continue to grapple with the novel coronavirus, one question is on a lot of people’s minds: Are we.... Read More

How Those With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Cope With Added Angst Of COVID

Jun 23, 2020 at 02:38 pm by pj

    Elizabeth Lawrence , Kaiser Health News Before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States, Chris Trondsen felt his life was finally under contr.... Read More

Easy To Say ‘Get Tested.’ Harder To Do. Here’s How.

Jun 23, 2020 at 02:34 pm by pj

    Bernard J. Wolfson and Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News  Will Bondurant decided to get tested for COVID-19 after attending three racial justice demonstr.... Read More

PAVe Fighting Predatory Marketing of Vaping Products to Teens

Jun 18, 2020 at 12:06 pm by pj

  Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes (PAVe) are irate over the marketing of e-cigarettes to minors and have sent a letter to the FDA to complain of what they see as non.... Read More

New Class of 12 Pediatric Residents Begins at Nemours Children’s Hospital

Jun 18, 2020 at 10:53 am by pj

Nemours Children’s Hospital held a special ceremony to officially welcome the second group of recruited physicians in training for its three-year residency program. At a.... Read More

Orlando Immunology Center Selected by NIH for COVID-19 Vaccine Studies

Jun 15, 2020 at 11:44 am by pj

Orlando Immunology Center (OIC) is proud to announce to the Central Florida community that our research center located at 1707 N Mills  Avenue, Orlando, 32803 has been selecte.... Read More

Using Stories to Mentally Survive as a COVID-19 Clinician

Jun 11, 2020 at 07:02 am by pj

    Stephanie Stephens, Kaiser Health News Dr. Christopher Travis, an intern in obstetrics-gynecology, has cared for patients with COVID-19 and performed surgery.... Read More

New Coronavirus Hot Spots Emerge Across South and in California, as Northeast Slows

Jun 10, 2020 at 10:52 pm by pj

  Martha Bebinger, WBUR and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio and Jackie Fortiér, KPCC  Mass protests against police violence across the U.S. have public.... Read More

Three New Scientific Theories to Explain Why Women are More Susceptible to Autoimmune Disease than Men

Jun 09, 2020 at 07:14 pm by pj

  By Chad Larson, NMD, DC, CCN, CSCS   Although autoimmune disease (AD) affects both genders, women are at an overwhelming disadvantage. Of the approximate 8 perc.... Read More

FDA Reissues EUAs Revising Which Types of Respirators Can Be Decontaminated for Reuse

Jun 08, 2020 at 08:01 pm by pj

In response to public health and safety concerns about the appropriateness of decontaminating certain respirators, the agency is reissuing certain emergency use authorizations.... Read More

Tear-Gassing Protesters During An Infectious Outbreak ‘A Recipe For Disaster’

Jun 06, 2020 at 03:38 pm by pj

  Will Stone Kaiser Health News In nationwide demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, protesters have been frequently pepper-spray.... Read More

ICUs Become A Delirium Factory For COVID Patients

Jun 04, 2020 at 01:34 pm by pj

    Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News    Doctors are fighting not only to save lives from COVID-19, but also to protect patients’ brains. Although C.... Read More

UCF/HCA Healthcare Announce Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program

Jun 04, 2020 at 11:57 am by pj

    A new Vascular Surgery fellowship program, based at the Orlando VA Medical Center and Osceola Regional Medical Center, has receiv.... Read More

Hiring A Diverse Army To Track COVID-19 Amid Reopening

Jun 02, 2020 at 01:48 pm by pj

(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Brendan Mackie)   Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News and Anna Almendrala  As a contact tracer, Teresa Ayala-Cas.... Read More