Moderna asks FDA to approve its booster shot for all adults
Nov 18, 2021
The Moderna booster is half the dose of the initial vaccination series: 50 mcg versus 100 mcg.
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Sep 06, 2016
Television studio at California retirement home helps seniors heal … Juniper’s Lynne Katzmann and mother discuss Burning Man on local TV … Lyft partners with home care group … FDA...
New OSHA COVID-19 inspection and whistleblower program targets home healthcare, among other providers
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 16, 2021
Home healthcare services are part of a long list of businesses under scrutiny by the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration program.
Gap between mortality in rural and urban areas has increased
Jun 08, 2021
Difference increased in age-adjusted mortality rates between large metropolitan areas, rural areas from 1999 to 2019.
Massachusetts AG will appeal court decision to dismiss landmark COVID case alleging nursing home neglect
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 16, 2021
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a notice of appeal Tuesday in Hampden County Superior Court seeking to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of criminal charges lodged against two leaders...
Former CNA pleads guilty to planning sexual assaults of residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 07, 2016
A former certified nursing assistant at an Illinois assisted living and memory care community faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of solicitation to commit aggravated criminal...
Rural seniors face additional vaccination challenges
By
Diane Eastabrook
Mar 10, 2021
In late January, healthcare providers in remote Aroostook County, Maine, needed help getting the word out about the COVID-19 vaccine to its 70,000 residents — about a quarter of whom are elderly. They...
Monkeypox virus detected in anorectal samples from asymptomatic patients
Aug 16, 2022
“Whether this indicates viral shedding that can lead to transmission is unknown,” the authors write. “If so, the practice of ring postexposure vaccination around symptomatic persons with...
More news for Thursday, June 24
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2021
New Mexico updates visitation, activity guidance for assisted living communities … Study finds many who arrange caregiving for older adults living with dementia employ potentially unscreened, untrained...
WHO says global monkeypox cases have jumped 77 percent in one week
Jul 08, 2022
The virus typically infects people through bites from rodents or small animals, and not through person-to-person spread.