Clinician burnout in healthcare is a growing area of concern, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on. Research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Regenstrief Institute looked at ways organizations can address burnout.   “There is plenty of attention on burnout these days, but the approaches we use to combat it are often centered around building coping skills for staff. But burnout isn’t something we can just train out of people. Resiliency […]

As flu season collides with the holidays and Arizona’s continuing COVID-19 incidence, many people are taking steps to reduce their risk for illnesses. But with so much misinformation and apprehension about vaccines circulating, rifts can appear among friends and families when not everyone shares the same perspective. In response, University of Arizona Health Sciences students […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – There is a “very high” risk the Omicron variant of COVID-19 will become dominant in Europe by early next year and lead to a growing number of hospital admissions and deaths, the European Union’s public health body said on Wednesday. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in a […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German researchers have found that COVID-19 therapies developed by Eli Lilly and Regeneron lose most of their effectiveness when exposed in laboratory tests to the Omicron variant of coronavirus. Two groups of Germany based scientists separately found that protection from GlaxoSmithKline and Vir’s antibody cocktail Xevudy held up when exposed to Omicron […]

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Geomicrobiology is the study of the role of microbes in the geological and geochemical processes that shaped the earth and continue to function today. Microbes play a vital role in recycling, generating, sequestering, and removing a wide variety of substances and chemical elements in the environment via biogeochemical cycles that span the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and […]

After being anesthetized and undergoing major surgery, up to one in five patients have increased levels of the protein troponin in their blood. This can be a sign of heart damage. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have analyzed data from before and after the operations of 1300 patients. The study was focused on leakage […]

Around 80 percent of adolescents who died by suicide or who had self-harmed had consulted with their GP or a practice nurse in the preceding year, shows new research. The large study of 10- to 19-year-olds between 2003 and 2018, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, also puts forward a series of […]

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian provinces are trying to ramp up vaccination and hand out more rapid tests amid a rising wave of the coronavirus pandemic driven by the Omicron variant, but efforts to head off infections are complicated by public fatigue almost two years into the pandemic. Case numbers are increasing as the country’s hospitals […]

When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread across the world, many countries were forced to enact costly and restrictive lockdowns, and it was not until the development and mass deployment of various vaccines that these ended. While several severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines were developed using conventional methods such as using attenuated forms […]