News

Patients with severe COVID-19 experienced positive benefits reducing mortality and intubation rates when using the therapy along with Decadron and convalescent plasma.

Quality face masks remain an important part of our fight against the virus, as most people are still unvaccinated. New virus variants may mean extended mask wearing.

A pair of experts assess literature on the means of interpreting hospitalized patient antibiotic resistance through machine learning.

Derek Blechinger, MD, MPH, and a team at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center have developed an HIV prediction model to find patients earlier in the care cycle who could benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) therapy.

The country announced it is going to study the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for health care workers and will not go forward with plans to use the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) weighs in on this topic in light of the new variants.

Notable differences exist between the 2 sedation agents, but those differences do not appear to impact outcomes.

An assessment of a comparative study between leading options for a burdensome infection.

The EUA follows the authorization for lone therapy bamlanivimab for adults and children at risk of severe COVID-19.

In most areas tested, the algorithm's estimates of infections corresponded to the percentage of people who had tested positive for antibodies.

Positives that participants identified were associated with less anxiety and improved well-being.

An orally administered adsorbent to prevent antibiotic disruption of intestinal flora enters phase 3 trial against clostridium difficile (C diff) in patients with hematologic malignancies.

Our editor-in-chief rates the first year of response to the pandemic.

Health care workers hospitalized with COVID-19 showed no greater risk than the general public for mechanical ventilation or death, and may actually have less risk of ICU admission and shorter hospital stays, a new study found.

A new study focused on age-specific trends within the US as a way to address targeted COVID-19 intervention efforts.

Iran reports 7,300 new cases as vaccination program is set to begin.

The two-dose vaccine's ineffective prevention of the more transmissible virus variant led to official seeking better options—and broader outcomes.

Implications for antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance.

A small study focused on patients' infection response from symptom onset to recovery or death.

Contemporary care guidelines for this bacterium in geriatrics needs to be followed more closely, one study found.

Study outlines differences in health, access to care, among other factors.

Findings included a reduction in fever, an increase in white blood cells and a sharp decrease of c-reactive protein (CRP) levels.

Multi-epitope vaccines are constructed by multiple virus protein fragments rich in overlapping epitopes.

Tele-intensivists working overnight can cover several patients, allowing the daytime intensivists more rest, decreasing the likelihood of burnout.

US counties that scored higher on the Social Vulnerability Index, which includes such factors as poverty, unemployment and education, saw higher incidence rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths, a University of Michigan study found.

The agency limited it Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 therapy to the use of high titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma only for the treatment of hospitalized patients early in the disease. FDA is no longer authorizing the use of low-titer plasma in its EUA due to a lack of efficaciousness in further studies.

Pending advisory committee support and granted authorization, the adenovirus vaccine could become the first single-shot option in the US.

A SARS-CoV-2 infection has been found in hiPSC-derived NPCs, neurons, and astrocytes.