Jane Ehrhardt

Updating IT Policies for Work-from-Home Users

Jul 23, 2020 at 12:08 pm by steve

About half of American workers have been forced to work from home by Covid-19, and it appears the shift may become the new norm. In April, nearly one in five CFOs surveyed by.... Read More

Beware the Pitfalls of Collaborative Tools

Jul 23, 2020 at 09:15 am by steve

At the beginning of 2020, the video-conferencing platform Zoom was seeing 200 million daily meeting participants on average. That was before Covid-19 struck. Now, with remote.... Read More

Many Patients Mistakenly Believe They Have Penicillin Allergy

Jul 22, 2020 at 09:28 am by steve

Around 10 percent of Americans believe they have an allergy to penicillin which is unfortunate because penicillin and its related β-Lactam antibiotics are among the safest and.... Read More

FDA Approves the First Peanut Allergy Pill

May 15, 2020 at 10:20 am by steve

Peanut allergies are the second most common food allergy in children, occurring in about one in 50 kids. "There is no cure for peanut allergies other than avoidance, so famili.... Read More

Antibiotic Stewardship in Alabama

Mar 23, 2020 at 02:21 pm by steve

Last year, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) investigated two Acinetobacter baumannii cases in one facility. Resistant to nearly all antibiotics, including the po.... Read More
Birmingham Medical News November 2024 Cover

November 2024

Nov 26, 2024 at 01:11 pm by kbarrettalley

Your November 2024 Issue of Birmingham Medical News is Here!