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On the front lines: Correctional nurses and the COVID-19 pandemic

Bioengineer

New Rochelle, NY, July 14, 2021-Firsthand reports from nurses in correctional facilities detail the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. These firsthand accounts are reported in a special issue on correctional nursing in the Journal of Correctional Health Care. Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. liebertpub.

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Ensuring medicines work safely for everyone

The Pharma Data

For medicines to work safely, it’s vital to have strong systems in place to report any undesired side effects or “adverse drug reactions“. Health-care professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists) are best placed to report suspected adverse reactions as part of patient care. WHO’s role in making medicines safer.

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Vyjuvek Gets FDA Nod as First Topical Gene Therapy for Rare Skin Disease

XTalks

DEB is a genetic disorder characterized by very fragile skin that rips and blisters easily even from minor friction (like rubbing or scratching) or injury, resulting in open wounds that are prone to skin infections and fibrosis. Results of the trials are published in the journals Nature Medicine and The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Digital health: the new normal?

pharmaphorum

The aims of Babylon’s app go further than to provide an easy-access doctor and include leveraging patient data to provide doctors and nurses with user-inputted information to inform decision-making processes. Using patients’ genetic data. Tapping into data. The present and future: personalised treatment.

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Disrupting Healthcare Through Innovation

ACRP blog

Indeed, most of modern medicine revolves around learnings from disruptive, successful clinical trials that investigated the safety and efficacy of promising therapeutic options. Through an outlook inspired by her work in medicine, mindfulness, and Eastern spirituality, Burnett views her diagnosis as a difficult gift. “By Paul, Minn.,

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BASE10 and DNA Link Partners on Research to Support Authorization of Antibody Test at the Point of Care

The Pharma Data

26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BASE10 Genetics and DNA Link today announced their collaboration on a research project to evaluate the usability of DNA Link ‘ s AccuFind COVID-19 IgG antibody test in a healthcare setting. About BASE10 Genetics, Inc. BASE10 is a precision medicine company based in Chicago.

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Unlocking disease treatment with large-scale research

pharmaphorum

A few decades ago, gathering genetic data on the scale of the 100,000 Genomes Project would have been unthinkable – it was only in 2003 that the entire human genome was mapped. This is the way in which the UK’s Our Future Health research programme aims to provide a breakthrough in healthcare and medicine. Aims for the project.