Category: Healthcare & Policy

Healthcare & Policy

FDA Issues Guidance on Dry Heat to Reduce N95 Mask Bioburden

The FDA says bioburden reduction systems that use dry heat can play an important role in the ongoing efforts to help address shortages of PPE masks like N95s.

Healthcare & Policy

HHS, FDA Take Actions as Part of Trump’s ‘America First Healthcare Plan’

According to the FDA and Department of Health and Human Services, President Trump signed an...

Healthcare & Policy

Respiratory Therapists in the Armed Forces

Respiratory caregivers in the US military have both the challenge and the privilege of serving their country and their patients, both at home and abroad, in peace and in combat.

Environmental News

What’s in that Wildfire Smoke, and Why Is It So Bad For the Lungs?

A toxicologist explains how smoke from wildfires contain thousands of individual compounds, which can be harmful to human health.

Home Care

Philips Partnership to Expand Teleheath Services

Royal Philips has joined forces with the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) to help further the adoption of telehealth across the industry.

Occupational Health

Preventing Aerosolized Transmission of COVID-19 to Healthcare Workers

With the novel coronavirus able to survive in an aerosolized state for hours, respiratory therapists conducting nebulizer treatments are at increased risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2.

General Healthcare

Evidence that COVID-19 May Trigger Diabetes in Some Patients

Diabetes is already a risk factor for greater severity of COVID-19, but evidence is now surfacing that some patients have received new diabetes diagnoses upon coronavirus hospitalization.

Medicare & Medicaid

AMA Releases Vaccine-specific CPT Codes for COVID-19

The American Medical Association (AMA) published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set that includes new vaccine-specific codes to report immunizations for the novel coronavirus.