Infection With Omicron Less Likely to Result in Post-COVID-19 Condition
MONDAY, Sept. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The risk for post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) is...
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Extended-Release Buprenorphine Not Necessarily Cost-Effective
TUESDAY, Sept. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For patients with opioid use disorder (OUD),...
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Fatal Drug Overdoses Quadrupled From 1999 to 2020
TUESDAY, Sept. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Drug overdose deaths increased 4.3-fold in the...
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Tobacco, Cannabis Use Tied to High Rates of Self-Reported Mental Health Issues
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Use of tobacco and/or cannabis, particularly...
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Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Tied to Reduced Risk for Death in Men
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For men with lower urinary tract symptoms,...
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BNT162b2 Vaccination Linked to Lower Risk for COVID-19 Encounters in Children Under 5
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For children younger than 5 years, receiving two...
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Choking Hazard Spurs Recall of Bath Toys Sold at Target
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The Chuckle & Roar Ultimate Water Beads...
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Concurrent Use of Fentanyl, Stimulants Common in Overdoses
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) — By 2021, stimulants were the most common drug...
Read MoreAcute Rejection In Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Heart Transplants.
Donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplantation has promising early survival, but effects on rejection remain unclear.The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database was queried for adult heart transplants from...
Read MoreHigh flow nasal oxygen in frail COVID-19 patients hospitalized in intermediate care units and non-eligible to invasive mechanical ventilation.
In COVID-19 patients, older age (sixty or older), comorbidities, and frailty are associated with a higher risk for mortality and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) failure. It therefore seems appropriate to suggest...
Read MoreBaseline immune states (BIS) associated with vaccine responsiveness and factors that shape the BIS.
Vaccines are among the greatest inventions in medicine, leading to the elimination or control of numerous diseases, including smallpox, polio, measles, rubella, and, most recently, COVID-19. Yet, the effectiveness of vaccines...
Read MoreSpecial Report from the CDC: Provider knowledge and practices around driving safety and fall prevention screening and recommendations for their older adult patients, DocStyles 2019.
Falls and motor-vehicle crashes (MVCs) are leading causes of unintentional injury deaths among older adults (65+) in the United States. Injury prevention resources exist to help healthcare providers reduce fall and MVC risk...
Read MoreRetrospective analysis of factors affecting rate of skeletonization within a tropical climate.
Estimating the post mortem interval (PMI) in skeletonized cases is an extremely challenging exercise. Sri Lanka lacks adequate taphonomic research which is a serious limitation when assessing PMI in forensic death...
Read MoreRelationship between Phenotype Models Based on Waist Circumference and Triglyceride Levels and the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading cause of death worldwide and has a high cost of treatment. Studies have indicated that a combination of waist circumference (WC) and triglyceride (TG) levels can be used to determine the...
Read MoreClinician Champions’ Influence on Social Needs Screening Volumes in Pediatric Practices.
Health systems face barriers implementing routine screening for social needs. We assessed the impact of “clinician champions” on social needs screening. Screening data were assessed at 11 pediatric primary care...
Read MoreRegional Trends in Unicondylar and Patellofemoral Knee Arthroplasty: An Analysis of the American Joint Replacement Registry.
As the popularity of unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA) and patello-femoral arthroplasty (PFA) have expanded more patients who have limited arthritis are undergoing partial knee arthroplasty. These procedures are performed by...
Read MoreHalf a century of systematic research on heat-induced colour changes in bone – A review.
Skeletal human remains presenting heat-induced changes have been a focus of study for a long time. However, there is still a long way to go for the anthropologists to be able to fully interpret and understand these changes....
Read MoreMulti-omics analysis defines a cuproptosis-related prognostic model for ovarian cancer: Implication of WASF2 in cuproptosis resistance.
Ovarian cancer (OVC) is one of the deadliest and most aggressive tumors in women, with an increasing incidence in recent years. Cuproptosis, a newly discovered type of programmed cell death, is caused by intracellular...
Read MoreFactors affecting the simple febrile seizures in COVID-19 children: a case-control study from China.
The over-age phenomenon of simple febrile seizures (SFS) was found during the epidemic in COVID-19, but there was no clear explanation, especially in China. This study aimed to analyze the clinical and auxiliary examination...
Read MoreTixagevimab and cilgavimab use in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder during anti-CD20 treatment: A single-center experience.
B-cell-depleting treatments, such as ocrelizumab and rituximab (anti-CD20), reduce humoral response to SARS-CoV-2 in people with Multiple Sclerosis (pwMS) and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) and are associated...
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