CEU nurse Tracker: A free template for filling and tracking the continuing education for nurses To get Organized with Continuing education in the busy days of nurse life, here is the handy fillable tracker for continuing education. As every nurse needs continuing education to renew their licenses online or in person, this tracker gets […]
There is ongoing debate among policymakers, scientists and the general public about where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, came from. While researchers consider bats the most likely natural hosts for SARS-CoV-2, the origins of the virus are still unclear. On May 10 in the journal Current Biology, researchers describe a recently identified bat coronavirus […]
Can a very common allergy medicine improve survival among patients suffering from the serious skin cancer, malignant melanoma? A new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that this may be the case. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops when the melanocytes (the cells that give the skin its […]
Adding yoga to your regularly prescribed migraine treatment may be better than medication alone, according to a study published in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The new research suggests yoga may help people with migraines to have reduced incidence and duration of headache symptoms. Migraine is one of the most common […]
According to American Society of Clinical Oncology, there is an estimated 53,260 adults (38,330 men and 14,880 women) in the United States will be diagnosed with oral and oropharyngeal cancer in the year 2020. Rates of these cancers are more than twice as high in men as in women. Oral and oropharyngeal cancer are the […]
For the First time, people with limb amputations can experience sensations of touch with a mind-controlled arm prosthesis. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports on three Swedish patients who have lived, for several years, with this new technology. This is one of the world’s most integrated interfaces between human and machine. The research […]
COVID-19 is still affecting many people worldwide. The precautions to be taken are well known to the society by now. Across the globe, the governments are hard at work establishing the physical infrastructure to fight the pandemic. At the same time, many laboratories across the world are working on clinical trials evaluating potential treatments. Researchers […]
COVID-19 outbreak is a stressful time for healthcare systems across the world. Being at the forefront of battle against this pandemic, healthcare workers especially nurses are putting their lives at stake. For every nation regardless of their geopolitical and socioeconomic status in the world, are dealing with this invisible enemy. Countries who overestimated their ability […]
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) advises not to attack the sleeping bacteria in urine unnecessarily with antibiotics and force them to develop antimicrobial resistance or to give patients the blessings of clostridium difficile. We are talking about the antimicrobial stewardship program based on IDSA 2005 recommendations on asymptomatic bacteremia (ASB) management. It recommends for […]