May 18, 2020
After A Heart Attack: Can Home Health Help Prevent Hospital Return?
By American Heart Association NewsHeart attack survivors who receive home health care are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within the first month, according to preliminary research. The study, presented Friday at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care & Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions, used the Nationwide Readmission Database to identify more than 400,000...
CDC Advisory: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Advisory courtesy of the CDC On April 26, 2020, clinicians in the United Kingdom (UK) recognized increased reports of previously healthy children presenting with a severe inflammatory syndrome with Kawasaki disease-like features.1 The cases occurred in children testing positive for current or recent infection by SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, based on reverse-transcriptase...