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Automated red blood cell exchange: bridging treatment gaps in sickle cell disease care

Drug Target Review

3,20 These crises drive high rates of emergency department use and hospital admissions, significantly disrupting education, employment and family life. 24 Hospitals can also play a role, as shown by Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Surveillance for Sickle Cell Disease – Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, Two States, 2004-2018.

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A proactive diabetes review model: from concept to nurse-led research

On Medicine

There are a few (but growing) centers that will proactively see patients with diabetes in high-risk areas when admitted to the hospital, however, by far the most common practice is for patients to only be seen by a specialist team, including for diabetes, on receipt of a referral.

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A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics

Broad Institute

Her parents were terrified, and the family spent the next few years in and out of the hospital. She thought about becoming a doctor when she moved to Seattle for college, but wanted to go beyond treating symptoms to make a longer-term impact on human health. He passed away at the age of three.

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Lockdowns May Be Keeping Kids’ Asthma Attacks at Bay: Study

The Pharma Data

Boston Children’s Hospital’s emergency department (ED) observed a steep decline in asthma-related emergency visits last spring. 5 to May 23 in three separate years: 2018, 2019 and 2020. They found that the percent of total emergency visits due to asthma was lower in 2020 than in 2018 and 2019. FRIDAY, Dec.

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AHA News: Hospice Candidate at 2, She’s Now 13 and Thriving

The Pharma Data

.” That was the term the doctors used six months after a third surgery to correct a heart defect that left her struggling to breathe while her lungs continued to fill with fluid. A doctor suggested hospice. Her parents sought second, third and fourth opinions, reaching out to specialists at three other children’s hospitals.

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Giving Back: Once a Lung Transplant Recipient, Now a Surgical Nurse

The Pharma Data

Fogelman, 27, underwent a double lung transplant last year to treat a rare lung disease and returned this fall to work in the same hospital where she received her life-changing surgery. Then, in 2018, she developed an infection that would be pivotal for her health. WEDNESDAY, Dec. As a result, her lung condition worsened.

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Harvey Leonard Dickstein, MD, Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who

The Pharma Data

More recently, he was a member of the Cohasset Board of Health between 2015 and 2018. Dr. Dickstein prepared for his career in medicine by achieving a Bachelor of Arts in biology at American International College in 1957 and a Doctor of Medicine at Tufts University in 1961. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps at the U.S.