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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

In analyzing electronic health records for almost 800,000 patients, the researchers found the vaccines to be 75% effective against acute infection, meaning illness that was serious enough to send a patient to a health care provider. 1, 2013, weren’t eligible for vaccination, but those even slightly younger were eligible.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. And so I think that my growth and discovery of celebrating who I am as a woman of trans experience didn’t really happen until when I came to New York City.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.