Just in time for the winter respiratory virus season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new respiratory illness resources. New Community Snapshot content shows viral activity in different ways, including…
Masks are back on at my local hospitals. Our area is seeing a surge of COVID, influenza, and RSV patients. We’re seeing full intensive care units. Nursing exhaustion is approaching pandemic levels.
Across the…
As we expected, coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday and moving towards Christmas, emergency department and hospital visits for respiratory viruses were on the rise. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control…
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We’ve made it past some of the early fall holidays, and those of us on the front lines are waiting to see if they will cause a spike in respiratory illnesses.
Heading into Thanksgiving,…
The fall and winter months present the healthcare system with a unique challenge: the simultaneous outbreak of influenza, Covid-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a “tripledemic” that dominated last year’s headlines. Now, as healthcare…
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Texas Department of State Health Services (TX DSHS) has partnered with SAS to develop new public health dashboards for tracking influenza data across the state, unifying multiple flu surveillance sources into…
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Calif.-based diagnostics startup Simple HealthKit announced it is partnering with Walmart to make its home diagnostic test kits for diabetes, sexual wellness and respiratory wellness available to customers via the retail chain’s website. Simple HeathKit’s…
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Vaccine developer Vaxart contends its pill vaccinations against Covid-19 will be preferable to patients, and potentially more effective than currently available injections. But a different virus offers the biotech a clearer and faster path…
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Researchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the…
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Researchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the…
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