Clinical

Even the most confident of long-term care staff, sure of their knowledge and skills, reported “notable difficulties” providing palliative and end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a...

Fills for prescriptions of high-risk medications have consistently declined among Medicare Advantage beneficiaries compared with fills for traditional Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study.

Clinicians should recognize TBI as a chronic condition and provide care to support patients’ long-term, changing needs, investigators say.

U.S. will allow drugmakers to discuss Medicare drug price negotiations … CIDRAP: CDC signs off on tweaks to flu vaccine recommendations … Healthcare groups fear SCOTUS affirmative action ruling will...

CDC director Rochelle Walensky has greenlit the use of two new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines for preventing severe disease in older adults, emphasizing their use in vulnerable groups such...

An experimental tuberculosis vaccine is set to be tested in a clinical trial of adults and adolescents. If successful, it would be the first new TB vaccine available since 1921.

Fully 26% of study participants with moderate to severe COVID-19 symptoms reported frequent pain, researchers report.

Nearly one third of RNs likely to seek different job, AMN study finds … Worldwide, malnutrition levels are high for people with dementia in long-term care … ‘Presence’ hallucinations an early,...

After years of criticism for cherry-picking healthier people for enrollment, Medicare Advantage is now holding onto more patients with chronic conditions, investigators say.

A stem cell replacement therapy has been found to be safe in patients living with Parkinson’s disease. Developers will now test whether the treatment can help to restore lost function.