Possible Cause of Long COVID 'Brain Fog'; Nursing Shortage Real? Drinking Salt Water Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Oct 17, 2023
RSV Vaccine Maintains Efficacy Across Two Seasons in Seniors And second dose after 1 year appeared to add no extra protection Oct 15, 2023
Feds Hope to Cut Sepsis Deaths by Hitching Medicare Payments to Treatment Stats Treatment delays can undermine a patient's chance of survival Oct 15, 2023
The Parasite Heard 'Round the World A wriggling worm in a woman's brain underscores parasites' indomitable will to survive Oct 14, 2023
A Simple Way to Determine If a Patient Is Really Allergic to Penicillin Delabeling strategy carries little risk, needs minimal testing, and no specialist consult Oct 14, 2023
Is It Time to Add Universal CMV Screening for Newborns? While not quite as sensitive as saliva PCR testing, dried blood spot testing has promise Oct 13, 2023
Medical Tourists Bring Home Fatal Fungal Infections High mortality in outbreak linked to anesthesia in Mexico Oct 13, 2023
Paxlovid and Long COVID; State Bans 'Excited Delirium' Dx; Gaza in Health Crisis Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Oct 13, 2023
Decolonization in Nursing Homes Cuts the Risk of Dangerous Infections Protocol borrowed from the ICU continues to show success Oct 12, 2023
Intranasal COVID Vaccine Generates Strong Immune Response Plus: Detecting viruses in wastewater and the maternal RSV vaccine for protecting infants Oct 12, 2023
Likelihood of NTM Lung Disease Cure Linked to Microflora Diversity Sputum samples may help identify patients responding to antibiotics Oct 12, 2023
Opportunistic Infections Put a Damper on Belatacept After Lung Transplant Center had to refine its use of the kidney-friendlier immunosuppression regimen Oct 11, 2023
Steroid Fails to Boost Survival in Advanced HIV Patients With TB Meningitis Mechanisms leading to death may be different in HIV-positive people, say study authors Oct 11, 2023
Docs and Vaccine-Hesitant Patients: Don't Debunk, but Do Discuss Ryan Hassan, MD, MPH, urges clinicians to be gentle when dealing with disinformation and distrust Oct 11, 2023 video
'Long Cold' Common Too; Walgreens Pharmacy Walkout; $2,000 Ivermectin Settlements Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Oct 09, 2023
Toxic Megacolon: Day in the Life of a Doctor Make the rounds with Siobhan Deshauer, MD, during a day in the hospital Oct 05, 2023
How Bad Will This Respiratory Virus Season Be? CDC Weighs In. Agency officials also outlined recommendations for COVID, RSV, and influenza vaccines Oct 04, 2023
Pediatric EDs Able to Sway Some Families, Clinicians on Penicillin Challenge Time constraints, fear of reaction among top concerns cited by clinicians Oct 04, 2023
Nasal Sprays Recalled; 75,000 Kaiser Workers Strike; Healthcare AI May Run Amok Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Oct 04, 2023
CDC Proposes 'Morning After' Pill to Prevent STIs As infections surge, so too has evidence supporting doxycycline in high-risk groups Oct 03, 2023
CDC's Turtle Warning; Largest Healthcare Worker Strike? Docs' Political Landmines Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Oct 03, 2023
COVID Vax in Pregnancy Protects Young Infants Against Omicron But only about one-fourth of pregnant women reported getting the vaccine Oct 02, 2023
Clean Up the COVID Booster Mess by Returning to a Single-Payer System We must reopen the door to easy preventive care access Oct 02, 2023
IV Immunoglobulin May Cut Infection Risk of Anti-BCMA Agents for Myeloma Small retrospective study finds fewer severe infections during periods of replacement therapy Sep 29, 2023
Point-of-Care Eye Test Detects Aspergillus-Caused Keratitis Lateral-flow device promising as first rapid test for primary care use Sep 28, 2023
COVID Heart Injuries Traced Back to Infected Arterial Plaque, Inflammation SARS-CoV-2 persistence in some vascular cells may have ties to long COVID Sep 28, 2023
Long COVID Rare in U.S. Kids, Has Affected 7% of Adults More common among girls and women Sep 26, 2023
COVID Conspiracies Return; Norovirus on the Hiking Trail; 2nd Pig Heart Transplanted Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Sep 25, 2023
CDC Advisors Endorse Maternal RSV Vax to Protect Newborns Vast majority of infants will not need monoclonal antibody if mom has received the vaccine Sep 22, 2023
Amoxicillin Alone for Acute Sinusitis Holds Up Against Broad-Spectrum Cousin Excess adverse events tilts balance away from amoxicillin-clavulanate for kids Sep 22, 2023
Are Paxlovid and Lagevrio Equals? Study shows similar mortality benefit for high-risk COVID patients, but evidence is up for debate Sep 21, 2023
When It Comes to Vaccine Strategy, Be Careful Comparing the U.S. to Other Countries The health landscape varies significantly from country to country Sep 20, 2023
Vaccine Research and Combating the Anti-Science Movement Go Hand in Hand An excerpt from Hotez's new book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science Sep 19, 2023
Child Develops Voluminous Diarrhea After Amoxicillin Discordant test results complicate diagnosis of suspected C. difficile Sep 18, 2023
Is Being a Night Owl Unhealthy? CRC Screening Not Recommended Enough Also in TTHealthWatch: CVD death and obesity Sep 16, 2023 podcast
Legionnaires Disease in Lung Transplant Recipients Likely From Donor Transmission via organs has not previously been reported, researchers say Sep 15, 2023
A Look at the Data Behind CDC's Updated COVID Vax Decision Here are the highlights of the agency's extensive evidence review Sep 15, 2023
Flu-Like Symptoms, Then Amputation; Docs Charge for Emails; Wait List for Psilocybin Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by ľֱ staff Sep 15, 2023
No 'Silver Bullet' for Generic Drug Shortage, House Members Told A total of 301 drugs were in active shortage last year Sep 14, 2023