MD Man Arrested for Stealing, Flipping Ambulance
According to a report from WJLA, Augustus Redditt, 52, of Baltimore, Maryland, was charged with vehicle theft, driving under the influence, drug possession, and related traffic offenses after stealing and crashing an ambulance in Dorchester County. Police say they were contacted just after 8:00 p.m. on Friday, January 15, regarding a Dorchester County Emergency Medical Services ambulance that was stolen from outside the University of Maryland Medical Center. Troopers located the ambulance traveling west on Route 50 in Cambridge. No patients or other passengers were on board the ambulance at the time it was stolen. ...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - January 18, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: News Source Type: news

Fueled by a History of Mistreatment, Black Americans Distrust the New COVID-19 Vaccines
When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes widely available to Americans, Brianna Clarke says she won’t be taking it. “I don’t trust the vaccine,” the 22-year-old says. “I think it’s too soon to have a vaccine.” Clarke, who lives in Willingboro, N.J., is among a significant number of Black Americans who are skeptical of the healthcare industry in general and, critically, the COVID-19 vaccines recently developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, more specifically. Over the past couple of weeks, the U.S. has averaged in the neighborhood of 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per d...
Source: TIME: Health - December 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dezimey Kum Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Low-income preschoolers exposed to nurturing care have with higher IQ scores later on
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Preschoolers living in impoverished communities who have access to a nurturing home environment have significantly higher intelligence quotient (IQ) scores in adolescence compared to those raised without nurturing care. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

New study identifies greatest risk factors of mortality from COVID-19
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or are obese or have complications from diabetes or hypertension, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers. In a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers evaluated nearly 67,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 613 hospitals across the country to determine link between common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from COVID-19. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UMD finds more West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes in lower-income areas of Baltimore
(University of Maryland) Researchers at the University of Maryland found higher rates of West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes in lower-income neighborhoods in urban areas of Baltimore, Maryland. Continuing a collaboration with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, this preliminary data provides another piece of the puzzle pointing to higher risk of mosquito-transmitted diseases in these neighborhoods already struggling with environmental injustices and poorer health outcomes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 17, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Why do we assume pandemics result in devastation?
(University of Maryland) Late 19th century misconceptions about outbreaks of plague in the ancient world led to an ingrained belief that pandemics inherently cause widespread death and change the course of history, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland's National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 17, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

UMD paves the way for growing human organs for transplantation with new proof-of-concept
(University of Maryland) With the number of people who suffer from organ failures and the growing need for available organs for transplant, finding a new way to provide organs and therapeutic options to transplant patients is a critical need. In a new paper, University of Maryland researchers show for the first time that newly established stem cells from pigs could provide a solution, laying the groundwork for growing transplantable human organs. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

How the First COVID-19 Vaccinations Rolled Out at Hospitals Across the U.S.
Just before 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, became one of the first people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The jab was the highly anticipated start of what public health experts hope is a nationwide wave of vaccinations that will signal the beginning of the end of the pandemic. The news coincided with a dark new milestone for the country—more than 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths. Only one vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech, has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to begin shipping. Another va...
Source: TIME: Health - December 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park, Jamie Ducharme and W.J. Hennigan Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Explainer overnight Source Type: news

Emerging from the fog: Little understood post-stroke cognitive issues are verified
(University of Maryland) For the first time, researchers at the University of Maryland have measured the physical evidence of diminished neural processing within the brain after a stroke. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Researchers create gene expression database to gain new insights into pneumococcal infecti
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published one of the most comprehensive analyses of how genes get expressed during infection (known as a transcriptome). The analyses include three different strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, meningitis and middle-ear infections. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 14, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

UMBC researchers use machine learning to develop more accurate COVID-19 diagnostic tool
(University of Maryland Baltimore County) Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have developed a method of generating high-quality chest X-ray images that can be used to diagnose COVID-19 more accurately than current methods. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 10, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Research concluding noncompetes stifle workers forthcoming in multiple publications
(University of Maryland) The University of Maryland's Evan Starr has extensively studied noncompetes, with the same conclusion: the agreements hurt workers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - December 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

As Covid cases surge, Md. university will again graduate some nurses early to bolster health care workforce
In the spring, 107 University of Maryland School of Nursing students graduated and entered the workforce early. This fall, 182 students may do the same. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - November 25, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Morgan Eichensehr Source Type: news

How Will COVID Affect Black Friday Sales? Stores ‘ Significantly Scaling Back, ’ Says Expert
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CBS Boston Tags: Business Consumer News Black Friday covid-19 Holiday Shopping Jie Zhang Norm Elrod Source Type: news

How Will COVID Impact Black Friday Sales? Stores ‘ Significantly Scaling Back, ’ Expert Says
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CBS Boston Tags: Business Consumer News Black Friday covid-19 Holiday Shopping Jie Zhang Norm Elrod Source Type: news