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Paxlovid as a potential treatment for long COVID
Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2023 Sep 21. doi: 10.1080/14656566.2023.2262387. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: On 31 July 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced the formation of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice and the United States National Institutes of Health opened enrollment for RECOVER-Vital, a randomized study to evaluate new treatment options for long Coronavirus (long COVID).AREAS COVERED: The RECOVER Initiative is a $1.15 billion research platform intended to describe, categorize, treat, and prevent long-term symptoms following infection by Severe Acute Res...
Source: Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy - September 21, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Matthew W McCarthy Source Type: research

What Happens When Private Equity Buys Your Doctor ’ s Office?
Private equity ownership of American health care facilities has grown massively in the last few decades. A 2021 study of U.S. hospice agencies found private equity ownership more than doubled, to 7%, between 2011 and 2019 while in 2021, 63% of deals in hospice and home care were with private equity. Twice as many companies providing fertility care were bought between 2017 and 2019 than in the previous seven years combined, according to a 2020 study. The trend of accelerating acquistion stretches overseas, as well, with international health care buyouts by private equity firms totaling $240 billion in 2021 and 2022, compare...
Source: TIME: Health - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 5799: Retrospective Analysis of the Outcome of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients with Coexisting Metabolic Syndrome and HIV Using Multinomial Logistic Regression
ua Modjadji Globally, the coexistence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and HIV has become an important public health problem, putting coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) hospitalized patients at risk for severe manifestations and higher mortality. A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was conducted to identify factors and determine their relationships with hospitalization outcomes for COVID-19 patients using secondary data from the Department of Health in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study included 15,151 patient clinical records of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases. Data on MetS was extracted in the form of a cl...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - May 12, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Peter M. Mphekgwana Musa E. Sono-Setati Tania V. Mokgophi Yehenew G. Kifle Sphiwe Madiba Perpetua Modjadji Tags: Article Source Type: research

Design and Implementation of a National SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring Program in England: REACT-1 Study
Am J Public Health. 2023 Mar 9:e1-e10. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307230. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTData System. The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) Study was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care in England to provide reliable and timely estimates of prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection over time, by person and place. Data Collection/Processing. The study team (researchers from Imperial College London and its logistics partner Ipsos) wrote to named individuals aged 5 years and older in random cross-sections of the population of England...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - March 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Paul Elliott Matthew Whitaker David Tang Oliver Eales Nicholas Steyn Barbara Bodinier Haowei Wang Joshua Elliott Christina Atchison Deborah Ashby Wendy Barclay Graham Taylor Ara Darzi Graham S Cooke Helen Ward Christl A Donnelly Steven Riley Marc Chadeau- Source Type: research

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