Her shift is finally over.
Florence “SeeSee” Rigney, a 96-year-old former nurse in Tacoma, Wash. is finally enjoying retirement after nearly 75 years at MultiCare Tacoma General.
NBC’s KING 5 news reports that Rigner completed her last shift Friday. That report, which includes video of Rigner saying on her 92nd birthday she’d leave nursing someday, stated that she was believed to...
A study has investigated the link between cognitively stimulating activity and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
The results suggest that participating in activities, such as reading, writing, and playing games, could make the brain more resilient to the condition.
The researchers say that older adults who participate in these activities could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s by 5 years.
Alzheimer’s...
A new biological clock relies on immune-related biomarkers to identify patterns and chronic inflammatory disease risk and immune system well-being.
By analyzing blood samples from 1,001 individuals aged 8–96 years, the study established a relationship with the inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) to total disease, longevity, and immune deterioration.
The iAge predicts multimorbidity — the accumulation of multiple...
Researchers have developed an algorithm that predicts anemia with an accuracy higher than 70%.
Smartphone images of the inner eyelid make it possible to estimate blood hemoglobin concentration.
A smartphone app could serve as a way to screen for anemia in those living in remote locations.
Anemia affects more than 5%Trusted Source of people in the United States and about 25% of the global...
A coalition of medical organizations on Tuesday called on health care facilities to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for employees.
"Prior experience and current information suggest that a sufficient vaccination rate is unlikely to be achieved without making COVID-19 vaccination a condition of employment," the statement from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the Infectious Diseases Society of America...
Health care teams are becoming increasingly diverse in today's world of medicine, comprising many different providers with distinct roles. Anyone interested in pursuing a career in health care has to decide which of these roles most distinctly matches their interests and aspirations.
Many students aspiring to enter health care deliberate between going to medical school and nursing school. While these two fields can be...
The highly contagious Delta variant now accounts for more than half of all new coronavirus infections in the United States, new government data shows.
The dangerous variant that crippled India recently currently makes up 51.7% of new infections in this country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . At the same time, the Alpha variant, which first surfaced in Britain and dominated infections...
A novel SARS-CoV-2 variant, the delta plus variant, has been identified in over 10 countries. Health authorities are raising concerns that the variant may have an increased ability to transmit, but they also note that this variant’s transmissibility is likely similar to that of the preexisting delta variant.
As ever more SARS-CoV-2 variants emerge, governments and public health experts continue to consider the...
The long-term services and supports sector must reimagine the direct care workforce, making employees feel more valued, to reduce turnover and improve recruitment, according to a new analysis.
“Direct care professionals face many challenges and are not valued for their essential role to care for older adults and people with disabilities,” explained authors Robyn Stone and Natasha Bryant, with LeadingAge’s LTSS...
The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are out of step in their COVID-19 mask guidance, prompting confusion.
In light of sky-rocketing cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant around the globe, last week the WHO called for all vaccinated people to continue to wear masks.
The CDC, however, has not followed suit. The U.S. agency still sticks by its guidance -- announced in May -- for...
The U.S. needs another innovation dream team.
O n june 14, 1940, the day the German army invaded and occupied Paris, a small group of scientists marched to the White House with grave news for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. U.S. military technology, they said, was utterly unprepared to take on the Axis powers. They urged the president to create a new agency—a dream team of techies and scientists—to help win the war....
The next big plague is coming, and despite making progress on pandemic preparedness, the U.S. might still suffer mass casualties. Here’s why.
Ominous pathogens seem to arrive every few years: SARS in 2003, swine flu in 2009, Ebola in 2014 , Zika in 2016 , COVID-19 in 2019 . The World Health Organization calls these viral threats “ Disease X ,” both to encourage policy makers to think...