The U.S Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorized a new coronavirus home test that the agency says will soon double the nation's limited supply of non-prescription tests.
The FDA's emergency use authorization of ACON Laboratories' Flowflex COVID-19 home test allows the San Diego-based company to sell its non-prescription test at retail stores as the nation's demand for quick, inexpensive tests...
MOORESVILLE, N.C.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Health Supply US (HSUS), a U.S.-based manufacturer of medical devices and supplies, has completed final deliveries of 100% American-made medical gowns to help replenish the Strategic National Stockpile, the company announced Thursday.
HSUS successfully delivered more than 8.7 million domestically produced medical isolation gowns over the past 12 months in response to the nation’s demand for...
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...
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...
During a pandemic, no one’s health is fully in their own hands. No field should understand that more deeply than public health, a discipline distinct from medicine. Whereas doctors and nurses treat sick individuals in front of them, public-health practitioners work to prevent sickness in entire populations. They are expected to think big. They know that infectious diseases are always collective problems because they are...
With more than one-third of U.S. adults now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, there's growing optimism on many fronts. A majority of states have either lifted health-related restrictions or have announced target dates for doing so.
Already, many clinicians and health policy experts are thinking about what the post-pandemic world will look like.
COVID-19 demonstrated that even in a behemoth industry like health...
'In many cases there were real lapses of oversight,' says a director on GAO's health care team
Months after it became painfully clear that older people were the most likely to die from COVID-19, poor infection control resulted in multiple, sustained outbreaks at the overwhelming majority of the nation’s nursing homes, according to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Of the 50 states and District of...
Mike Perry will not engage in the blame game over COVID-19 deaths among residents in America's nursing homes.
Nor will many of his colleagues working in the industry exacerbated by the virus.
"There were a lot of dynamics going on," said Perry, CEO of the WellBridge Group based in Brighton that operates 26 long-term care facilities in Michigan including Rochester Hills, Clarkston and South Lyon.
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Genetic testing plays an integral part in diagnosing and treating lung cancer.
Doctors use this type of testing to look for certain mutations. A person with a specific mutation may benefit from a targeted treatment.
In this article, two experts in the field describe the use of genetic testing and its future in lung cancer treatment.
What is genetic testing, and how does it work?
Genetic testing looks...