Clinical

DOH-Orange Announces Appointment Only Mobile COVID-19 Testing Sites

Apr 19, 2020 at 11:02 am by pj

To better serve residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Florida Department of Health in Orange County is partnering with Orange County Government and the City of.... Read More

AdventHealth to open drive-up COVID-19 testing in Sanford

Apr 19, 2020 at 10:40 am by pj

    Location at Seminole Towne Center mall will be third public testing location opened by the health care system.     Registration is now open for Ad.... Read More

AMA Outlines Guidance to Help Protect Resident and Fellow Physicians During COVID-19 Response

Apr 16, 2020 at 11:10 pm by pj

  CHICAGO – With more than 135,000 resident and fellow physicians caring for patients on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Medical Association.... Read More

Journal of Urgent Care Medicine Releases First-of-its-Kind COVID-19 Research

Apr 16, 2020 at 11:05 pm by pj

  First study to explore CXR findings of urgent care patients with confirmed COVID-19   As urgent care centers find themselves on the front lines of the novel cor.... Read More

FDA Daily Roundup as of April 17, 2020

Apr 16, 2020 at 07:19 pm by pj

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the following actions taken in its ongoing response effort to the COVID-19 pandemic: The FDA provided an.... Read More

NIH Study Validates Decontamination Methods for Re-use of N95 Respirators

Apr 16, 2020 at 07:13 pm by pj

  Three methods effectively sanitized masks for limited re-use.   N95 respirators can be decontaminated effectively and maintain functional integrity for up to th.... Read More

FDA Encouraging Recovered Patients Donate Plasma for Blood-Related Therapies

Apr 16, 2020 at 06:58 pm by pj

  As part of the all-of-America approach to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been working with partners across the U.S. governme.... Read More

A Desperate Scramble as COVID-19 Families Vie for Access to Plasma Therapy

Apr 16, 2020 at 06:07 pm by pj

      JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News    Stephen Garcia’s family is frantic. The auto body worker, just 32 years old, has been on a venti.... Read More

COVID-19 Brings Overhaul of Military Health Care to a Halt

Apr 16, 2020 at 05:43 pm by pj

    Patricia Kime, Kaiser Health News The agencies that oversee the health of U.S. military personnel and veterans were pushing ahead this spring with the biggest.... Read More

AdventHealth Sees Promise in Repurposed Drugs for Severe Cases of COVID-19

Apr 16, 2020 at 09:59 am by pj

  Medications previously used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Ebola are being pressed into service against the deadly coronavirus.   As physicians face ris.... Read More

FDA Clears New Disposable Fog-Free Articulating 5mm Laparoscope

Apr 15, 2020 at 11:51 pm by pj

  Xenocor, Inc. announced the FDA cleared the new Xenocor Disposable 5mm Articulating Laparoscope for minimally invasive abdominal and thoracic surgery. The.... Read More

COPD as a Lung Stem Cell Disease

Apr 15, 2020 at 10:48 am by pj

 Single Cell Cloning Tells the Story of Abnormal Cells  Two internationally renowned stem cell experts have found an abundance of abnormal stem cells in the l.... Read More

With PPE Shortages Ongoing, AMA Urges FEMA to Act as Single National Source for Acquisition

Apr 14, 2020 at 11:54 pm by pj

  With ongoing, serious concern about the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) for physicians, frontline health care workers and laboratory workers handli.... Read More

FDA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Daily Roundup

Apr 14, 2020 at 02:20 pm by pj

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the following actions taken in its ongoing response effort to the COVID-19 pandemic: Given the anticipated increase in d.... Read More

‘Baby, I Can’t Breathe’: America’s First ER Doctor To Die In The Heat Of COVID-19 Battle

Apr 14, 2020 at 01:32 pm by pj

Frank Gabrin (Courtesy of Debra Vasalech Lyons)   Alastair Gee, The Guardian , Kaiser Health News At about 5 a.m. on March 19, a New York City ER physician named.... Read More

Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate and Azithromycin, COVID-19 Drug Combo Treatment, Being Used by Parrish Medical Center

Apr 11, 2020 at 05:07 pm by pj

TITUSVILLE —Parrish Medical Center (PMC) has been treating coronavirus (COVID-19) patients with hydroxychloroquine since the start of the pandemic, for patients whose me.... Read More

Orlando Health Infuses First COVID-19 Patient with Convalescent Plasma

Apr 11, 2020 at 01:04 am by pj

Health system encourages individuals who’ve recovered from the virus to donate blood Doctors at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center infused their first COVID-.... Read More

What’s Missing In The Coronavirus Response

Apr 09, 2020 at 01:49 pm by pj

  Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News  In the age of coronavirus, Americans are being told to stay home and wear masks outside. The federal government has made way.... Read More

What Does Recovery From COVID-19 Look Like? It Depends. A Pulmonologist Explains.

Apr 09, 2020 at 01:43 pm by pj

      Judith Graham Kaiser Health News Reports of recovery from serious illness caused by the coronavirus have been trickling in from around the world. Phy.... Read More

Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients

Apr 09, 2020 at 12:00 pm by pj

  Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front.... Read More