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Doctors inappropriately prescribe medications to older patients at about the same rate as nurse practitioners, according to a new study. Among more than 23,000 NPs and 50,000 primary care physicians who wrote at least 100 prescriptions a year to patients age 65 and older, the rate of prescribing medications that older adults shouldn’t receive was 1.7% for both groups, counteracting the claim that NP care is inferior. |
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Helena Dahnweih of Iowa is just one of possibly hundreds of nurses still fighting to get their licenses reinstated after suspensions following the massive nursing degree scam that led to 25 arrests in January. Though it’s been almost a year since the scheme was uncovered, many nurses say they did the work, attended classes, didn’t pay for their degree, and passed the NCLEX, so their licenses should be valid. Nearly 100 nurses are represented by a single attorney in Philadelphia. |
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Despite a long history of underfunding in women’s health, researchers are finally learning more about what’s happening in women’s brains during menstruation. Neuroscientists recently published a preliminary report on the structural changes they found occurring throughout the brain during women’s periods. The researchers studied MRI scans of 30 women’s brains during different phases of their monthly cycles and compared the findings to hormone levels during each scan. It’s still unclear what the shifts they observed mean in daily life. |
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The reduced risk of death in babies born to mothers who received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy. |
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