Researchers develop model to explain Long COVID
Editor's Note In this study, researchers in New Zealand identify how post-viral fatigue syndromes, including Long COVID, become life-changing diseases and why patients have frequent relapses. Viral infections commonly result in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which causes brain-centered symptoms of neuroinflammation, brain fog, lack of refreshing sleep, and poor response…
UH Cleveland Medical Center awarded AHA Quest for Quality Prize
Editor's Note The American Hospital Association (AHA) will present this yearโs Quest for Quality Prize to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) on July 18 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. UH is receiving the award because of its data-driven quality and safety improvements and innovative strategies to…
HHS: US hospitals must provide abortion care in emergency cases
Editor's Note The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidance on July 11 to ascertain that โabortion is covered under the federal law requiring Medicare hospitals to provide all patients appropriate emergency careโincluding abortion careโregardless of state law,โ Beckerโs Hospital Review July 12 reports. The HHS…
Lawsuit filed against UnitedHealth for underpayment of telehealth services
Editor's Note A female patient in Chicago, Illinois, filed a lawsuit on July 7 against the multinational UnitedHealth Group for alleged underpayment of telehealth services, Beckerโs Payer Issues July 8 reports. The lawsuit claims that the womanโs insurance plan covers telehealth services, including pay benefits for-out-network services. After receiving out-of-network…
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Effectiveness of decontaminating PPE with methylene blue
Editor's Note This study led by researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, finds that methylene blue with light (MBL) photochemical treatment can be used to decontaminate personal protective equipment (PPE) contaminated with COVID-19. MBL robustly and consistently inactivated three coronaviruses, including COVID-19, with 99.8% to >99.9% virus inactivation across…
FDA: Class I recall of Getinge Flow-c, Flow-e Anesthesia Systems
Editor's Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 6 identified the recall by Getinge USA Sales Inc of its Flow-c and Flow-e Anesthesia Systems as Class I, the most serious. The recall was initiated after reports of cracked or broken on/off switchs on the systemsโ suction units. If…
Wastewater provides early detection of COVID-19 variant transmission
Editor's Note Scientists at UC San Diego and Scripps Research have developed tools to analyze wastewater that have proven effective in identifying emerging COVID-19 variants and predicting surges. COVID-19 patients shed the virus in their stool, whether they have symptoms or not. In the summer of 2020 the scientists began…