FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor declared the state’s chronic nursing shortage to be an emergency Thursday, taking executive actions amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to boost enrollment in nurse-training programs. Kentucky is projected to need more than 16,000 additional nurses by 2024, to help fill gaps caused by retirements and people leaving the profession, […]
As more and more children are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, one healthcare professional and mother is embracing the questions she knows they will inevitably have. Nicole Peterson, PA-C, a physician assistant at Carle Foundation Hospital’s emergency department in Urbana, Illinois, is providing answers to tough questions with her recently self-published children’s book, Francine […]
New research posted to the medRxiv* preprint server suggests that the Agena MassARRAY SARS-CoV-2 Panel PCR test effectively detects a variety of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants. Variants of concern, including the dominant Delta variant, possess mutations that may change the sequence diversity during diagnostic testing — leading to false-negative results. The findings […]
Pregnant women who were at or above the advanced maternal age (AMA) cutoff of 35 years on their due date received significantly more prenatal care, resulting in a slight decline in perinatal mortality, compared with women who were just a few months younger, according to a new study published in JAMA Health Forum. The findings […]
In a new evaluation of hospital maternity services, 237 facilities in 38 states earned high-performing status from U.S. News & World Report. “The Best Hospitals for Maternity” looked at data for 2019 and covered uncomplicated but not high-risk pregnancies. “All families deserve to be informed on how hospitals perform on key indicators of quality, which […]
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. If you’ve got any gamers in your life, you’ve probably heard them have a meltdown at some point over their computer crashing…that is unless they’ve got a gaming computer. Running games on a regular […]
Affective forecasting, or prospection, is the ability to construct future events mentally and “pre-experience” the event long before it happens. Impaired ability to envision the future plays an important role in the psychological mechanisms of reduced ability to experience pleasure and reduced motivation to obtain rewards, i.e., a phenomenon of anhedonia and amotivation commonly observed […]
Want to know how to stretch your hamstrings properly? Whether you are suffering from a hamstring injury, tight hamstrings, or want to prevent injury, our team of experts really gets to grips with the power of a good hamstring stretch. Your hamstrings are made up of three major thigh muscle groups and involved in major […]
Researchers have developed and validated a quick, non-invasive, web-based tool that identifies patients with epilepsy who are unlikely to benefit from invasive stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG). The 5-SENSE score includes five variables that predict the seizure-onset zone: focal lesion on structural MRI, absence of bilateral independent spikes in scalp electroencephalography (EEG), localizing neuropsychological deficit, strongly localizing semiology, […]
Spain’s prime minister on Monday urged people to “remain prudent” about COVID-19 over the holidays, as Christmas festivities at one Spanish hospital are suspected of infecting dozens of staff. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told reporters that Spaniards can’t “let their guard down” because the coronavirus continues to spread, despite fewer cases and fewer difficulties for […]
