WTEN: Ford Sends PPE to Upstate Hospitals

The Times Union published an article on the expansion of SPHP’s monoclonal antibody clinic. Located on the Samaritan Hospital – Albany Memorial Campus, the clinic has infused more than 450 COVID-positive patients since it opened on Dec. 3, 2020. 

Multiple groundbreaking therapies to treat the sickest COVID-positive patients in the Capital Region are being employed at St. Peter’s Health Partners’ (SPHP) acute care hospitals in Albany and Troy. They include the antiviral drug remdesivir; IL-6 inhibitor drugs; macrophage inhibitors; and convalescent blood plasma therapy.

Postpartum depression affects 1 in 8 women. Dr. Anjan Marella of Samaritan Hospital Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic, talks to WTEN about when women should seek help.