#Covid19
Apr 16, 2024
The following is a summary of "Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake: an online three-wave survey study of US adults," published in the March 2024 issue of Infectious Diseases by Thorpe et al. ...
Jun 07, 2023
Patients with RMDs and nrADs are more likely to experience early adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination than healthy controls. The results of a new study were presented at EULAR 2023, h...
Jun 01, 2023
Higher levels of plasma mitochondrial DNA were linked to worse outcomes in hospitalized patients and may help predict COVID-19 severity at an early stage. “Mitochondrial DNA is an inflamm...
Jun 01, 2023
In the COVA trial, sarconeos was found to be safe and effective in reducing risk for death or respiratory failure in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. In the phase 2/3 COVA trial, Girish ...
Apr 27, 2023
Patients who survived severe COVID-19 and who required mechanical ventilation were at increased risk for major arrhythmic events after discharge from the hospital. After adjusting for cardiovascular r...
Mar 22, 2023
The FREEDOM COVID Anticoagulation trial failed to demonstrate that therapeutic anticoagulation compared with prophylactic anticoagulation reduces 30-day composite events among non-critically ill patie...
Dec 26, 2022
Findings that show COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy improves neonatal outcomes can serve “a critical role” in counseling these patients about the vaccine. “While I was rotating in th...
Nov 11, 2022
1. In a systematic review with meta-analysis, COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lower risk of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission and intrauterine fetal death. ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Oct 24, 2022
A bill (AB 2098) was recently passed in California to reduce the sharing of COVID-19 misinformation by physicians. However, ironically, it is in the midst of a misinformation campaign about what it is...
Sep 30, 2022
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly everyone is somewhat familiar with the benefits of remote patient monitoring (RPM), which the American Medical Association (AMA) defines as “a digital health sol...
Sep 09, 2022
1. Older adults treated with nirmatrelvir were significantly less likely to be hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) than those not taking nirmatrelvir. 2. Those in the nirmatr...
Jun 30, 2022
Prior research indicates that patients with diabetes for at least 20 years will almost always be diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy (DR). Evidence also suggests a high prevalence of DR in China, ...
Jun 28, 2022
“There has been emerging data during the past year indicating coagulation dysfunction predisposing patients with COVID-19 to both arterial and venous thrombotic events,” explains Avni P. Finn, MD....
Jun 21, 2022
COVID-19 vaccination is safe in patients with Dravet syndrome, but vaccine hesitancy among caregivers has impacted vaccine uptake in this patient population. “Patients with neurological condi...
Jun 21, 2022
Severe illness COVID-19 patients were more likely to develop pulmonary embolism (PE). Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) diagnosis of PE might reduce the need for computed tomography pulmonary angiograp...
May 18, 2022
The randomized COVI-PRONE clinical trial demonstrated no difference in the risk of endotracheal intubation requirement at 30 days between awake prone positioning and standard positioning for patients ...
Apr 29, 2022
Despite the fact that women's participation in academic medicine has increased in recent decades, gender gaps remain. In gynecologic oncology, the gender gap in authoring and editorial boards have not...
Apr 28, 2022
1. The risk of hospitalization and death was lower among cases infected with Omicron variant compared to Delta. 2. In unvaccinated cases, prior COVID-19 infection provided moderate protection. ...