Oral Antibiotics Alone Miss the Mark for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis
(MedPage Today) -- For patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, the noninferiority of oral antibiotics alone compared with a combination of intravenous and oral antibiotics could not be demonstrated in a secondary analysis of the phase III... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 17, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Only One Harm From mRNA COVID Vaccines, Report Determines
(MedPage Today) -- Independent reviewers confirmed a causal relationship between the first mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis, and also determined that, more broadly, intramuscular shots can cause a series of shoulder injuries.
At the same... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 16, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Monica Bertagnolli: U.S. 'Ready' for Next Pandemic Threat
(MedPage Today) -- In part two of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Monica Bertagnolli, MD, the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about the day-to-day work at the... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 15, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Growing Eye Mass Leads to a Rare Diagnosis
(MedPage Today) -- Tropical parasitic disease is often asymptomatic, but beware of unexplained ocular symptoms (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Dramatic Rise in U.S. Measles Cases Threatens Elimination Status, CDC Says
(MedPage Today) -- A dramatic increase in measles cases reported in the first few months of 2024 threatens the elimination status of the disease in the U.S., a new CDC report found.
Of 338 measles cases reported to the CDC from Jan. 1, 2020 through... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Apnea Tied to Non-Invasive Ventilation in Hospitalized COVID Patients
(MedPage Today) -- In hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was associated with greater use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV), but booster vaccination reduced this risk, a retrospective study found.
While univariate... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 10, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Paxlovid Fails to Shorten COVID in Standard-Risk and Vaccinated At-Risk Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) failed to shorten COVID-19 symptom duration among people at standard risk for severe COVID-19 and among vaccinated people with at least one risk factor for severe disease, according to final... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
AI Sepsis Diagnostic Tool Gets FDA Authorization
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted marketing authorization for the Sepsis ImmunoScore, an artificial intelligence (AI) software tool for rapid diagnosis and risk assessment of sepsis, Prenosis announced Wednesday.
Integrated into electronic health... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Bird Flu: 'We Are All Over It,' CDC Director Says
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Although the risk to humans is very low, the case of the Texas farmworker apparently contracting pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) from a cow illustrates the importance of data collection, CDC Director Mandy... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Flu Vaccine Uptake Tripled With Simple Promotion
(MedPage Today) -- A few simple interventions boosted flu vaccine uptake for patients waiting at the emergency department [ED], according to the cluster-randomized, controlled PROFLUVAXED trial.
People in ED waiting areas who consented to view... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 2, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
COVID's Silver Lining; 'I Could Kill Someone'; Measles or MMR Detection?
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The COVID-19 pandemic has a scientific silver lining: a rare opportunity to watch our immune system develop defenses against a novel pathogen in real time. (STAT... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
New Tuberculosis Framework May Improve Research, Clinical Care
(MedPage Today) -- A new framework may better characterize the early stages of tuberculosis (TB) and improve research and clinical care, an international team of researchers said.
Turning against the current "active" or "latent" classification... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 27, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Inappropriate Dx of Pneumonia Common in Hospitalized Adults
(MedPage Today) -- About one in eight diagnoses of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalized adults are inappropriate, a prospective cohort study involving Michigan hospitals found.
In total, 12% of the more than 17,000 patients treated... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Lower Oxygen Targets May Be Preferable for COVID Patients in the ICU
(MedPage Today) -- Lower oxygenation targets for critically ill COVID patients with severe hypoxemia led to significantly more days alive and off life support, a randomized trial conducted at nearly a dozen intensive care units (ICUs) in Europe... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 21, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Electronic Nudges to Get the Flu Shot Fall Short for Vax Rates, Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Electronic nudges sent to patients failed to increase influenza vaccine uptake in one randomized clinical trial, while another trial found that slight increases in vaccination rates from letters emailed to patients failed to... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 19, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
