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For HIV/AIDS Survivors, COVID-19 Reawakened Old Trauma —And Renewed Calls for Change
Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted a rare lung infection among five otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles, Calif. Though they didn’t know it at the time, the scientists had written about what would turn out to be one of the historical moments that launched the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Since then, HIV/AIDS has killed an estimated 35 million people, including 534,000 people in the U.S. from 1990 to 2018 alone, according to UNAIDS, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in modern history. Over...
Source: TIME: Health - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Acute myocardial infarction in the Covid-19 era: Incidence, clinical characteristics and in-hospital outcomes —A multicenter registry
by Alexander Fardman, Doron Zahger, Katia Orvin, Daniel Oren, Natalia Kofman, Jameel Mohsen, Or Tsafrir, Elad Asher, Ronen Rubinshtein, Jafari Jamal, Roi Efraim, Majdi Halabi, Yacov Shacham, Lior Henri Fortis, Tal Cohen, Robert Klempfner, Amit Segev, Roy Beigel, Shlomi Matetzky BackgroundWe aimed to describe the characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients during the Covid-19 era. MethodsWe conducted a prospective, multicenter study involving 13 intensive cardiac care units, to evaluate consecutive STEMI patients admitted throughout an 8-week period during the Covi...
Source: PLoS One - June 18, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Alexander Fardman Source Type: research

City Heat is Worse if You ’re Not Rich or White. The World’s First Heat Officer Wants to Change That
Jane Gilbert knows she doesn’t get the worst of the sticky heat and humidity that stifles Miami each summer. She lives in Morningside, a coastal suburb of historically preserved art deco and Mediterranean-style single-family homes. Abundant trees shade the streets and a bay breeze cools residents when they leave their air conditioned cars and homes. “I live in a place of privilege and it’s a beautiful area,” says Gilbert, 58, over Zoom in early June, shortly after beginning her job as the world’s first chief heat officer, in Miami Dade county. “But you don’t have to go far to see t...
Source: TIME: Science - July 7, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Ciara Nugent Tags: Uncategorized climate change feature Londontime Source Type: news

Outcome and death risk of diabetes patients with Covid-19 receiving pre-hospital and in-hospital metformin therapies
COVID-19 has stroke Brazil harshly, deaths by COVID-19 in Brazil represent almost 13% of the total deaths by COVID-19 in the world, even though Brazilian population represents only 2.6% of the world population...
Source: Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome - July 13, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Rodrigo Esaki Tamura, Said Muhammad Said, Leticia Mussin de Freitas and Ileana Gabriela Sanchez Rubio Tags: Research Source Type: research

Comment on “Patient preference for cellulitis treatment: At-home care is preferred to hospital-based treatment”
To the Editor: We  read with interest the recent survey study from Gabel et al1 highlighting the preference of patients for at-home treatment of cellulitis rather than hospital-based care. Notably, these results reflected patient preferences well before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of recent reports linking patient anxiety over COVID-19 to delayed and decreased hospital presentations for acute medical problems such as myocardial infarction2 and stroke,3 we examined whether a similar trend was observed for patients presenting with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) at an urban tertiary car e center at...
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - August 7, 2020 Category: Dermatology Authors: Katharina S. Shaw, Theodora K. Karagounis, Lu Yin, Grace Gibbon, Rebecca A. Betensky, Kristen I. Lo Sicco, Alisa N. Femia Tags: JAAD Online Source Type: research

Doxycycline for community treatment of suspected COVID-19 in people at high risk of adverse outcomes in the UK (PRINCIPLE): a randomised, controlled, open-label, adaptive platform trial
Lancet Respir Med. 2021 Jul 27:S2213-2600(21)00310-6. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00310-6. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Doxycycline is often used for treating COVID-19 respiratory symptoms in the community despite an absence of evidence from clinical trials to support its use. We aimed to assess the efficacy of doxycycline to treat suspected COVID-19 in the community among people at high risk of adverse outcomes.METHODS: We did a national, open-label, multi-arm, adaptive platform randomised trial of interventions against COVID-19 in older people (PRINCIPLE) across primary care centres in the UK. We included peo...
Source: Respiratory Care - July 30, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Christopher C Butler Ly-Mee Yu Jienchi Dorward Oghenekome Gbinigie Gail Hayward Benjamin R Saville Oliver Van Hecke Nicholas Berry Michelle A Detry Christina Saunders Mark Fitzgerald Victoria Harris Ratko Djukanovic Stephan Gadola John Kirkpatrick Simon d Source Type: research

Increased Stroke Severity, ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction, Type A Aortic Dissection, and Deaths at Home in an Early Epicenter of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
The effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on conditions other than COVID-19 has been difficult to quantify. Early reports suggested widespread delays in acute care; however, the extended effects of the pandemic on life-threatening conditions has not been reported. We evaluated the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular pathology at a tertiary care hospital.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - August 24, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Clayton J. Brinster, Gabriel Vidal, James Jenkins, Aditya Bansal, Ross Parkerson, Charles Leithead, Hernan Bazan, Samuel R. Money, Chip Sternbergh Tags: Special Session: COVID-19 Source Type: research

Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, Pushing Hospitals —and Health Care Workers—to Their Breaking Points
Aug. 20 was a good day in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Carvase Perrilloux, a two-month-old baby who’d come in about a week earlier with respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, was finally ready to breathe without the ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway and he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking. Downstairs, Quintetta Edwards was preparing for her 17-year-old son, Nelson Alexis III, to be discharged after spending more than two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19—fir...
Source: TIME: Health - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme/New Orleans, La. Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Multilevel Strip Pooling-Based Convolutional Neural Network for the Classification of Carotid Plaque Echogenicity
In this study, we redesign the spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) and propose multilevel strip pooling (MSP) for the automatic and accurate classification of carotid plaque echogenicity in the longitudinal section. The proposed MSP module can accept arbitrarily sized carotid plaques as input and capture a long-range informative context to improve the accuracy of classification. In our experiments, we implement an MSP-based CNN by using the visual geometry group (VGG) network as the backbone. A total of 1463 carotid plaques (335 echo-rich plaques, 405 intermediate plaques, and 723 echolucent plaques) were collected from Zhongnan...
Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - August 30, 2021 Category: Statistics Authors: Wei Ma Xinyao Cheng Xiangyang Xu Furong Wang Ran Zhou Aaron Fenster Mingyue Ding Source Type: research

Emergency Medical Service Workers Battle a Hurricane, and COVID-19, To Bring Health Care To New Orleans
As Hurricane Ida pounded the coast of New Orleans with downpours and 150-mile-per-hour winds on the afternoon of Aug. 29, New Orleans Emergency Medical Services had to reverse course after spending 18 months running around the city at full speed battling COVID-19: staying put. For 13 hours and 41 minutes, as the storm’s worst shook their community, the workers hunkered down at their base, keeping themselves safe to be ready to protect others from whatever came next. However, the deluge of 9-1-1 calls didn’t come to a halt as EMS waited out the storm. So, after EMS workers were given the go-ahead to rush back in...
Source: TIME: Health - September 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized climate change COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 9461: Experience of a Neuro-Emergency Expert in the Emergency Department during One Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
-Sun Park We aimed to evaluate the overall clinical characteristics of patients treated by a neuro-emergency expert dedicated to the emergency department (ED) as an attending neurologist during the COVID-19 pandemic. We included adult patients who visited the ED between 1 January and 31 December 2020 and were treated by a neuro-emergency expert. We retrospectively obtained and analyzed the data on patients’ clinical characteristics and outcome. The neuro-emergency expert treated 1155 patients (mean age, 62.9 years). The proportion of aged 18–40 years was the lowest, and the most common modes of arrival were public ...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 8, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Yong-Won Jung Sang-Ook Ha Jin-Hyouk Kim Won-Seok Yang Young-Sun Park Tags: Article Source Type: research

Multilevel Strip Pooling-Based Convolutional Neural Network for the Classification of Carotid Plaque Echogenicity
In this study, we redesign the spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) and propose multilevel strip pooling (MSP) for the automatic and accurate classification of carotid plaque echogenicity in the longitudinal section. The proposed MSP module can accept arbitrarily sized carotid plaques as input and capture a long-range informative context to improve the accuracy of classification. In our experiments, we implement an MSP-based CNN by using the visual geometry group (VGG) network as the backbone. A total of 1463 carotid plaques (335 echo-rich plaques, 405 intermediate plaques, and 723 echolucent plaques) were collected from Zhongnan...
Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - August 30, 2021 Category: Statistics Authors: Wei Ma Xinyao Cheng Xiangyang Xu Furong Wang Ran Zhou Aaron Fenster Mingyue Ding Source Type: research

Hospital admissions of acute cerebrovascular diseases during and after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a state-wide experience from Austria
AbstractWe investigated hospital admission rates for the entire spectrum of acute cerebrovascular diseases and of recanalization treatments for ischaemic stroke (IS) in the Austrian federal state of Styria during and also after the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wave. We retrospectively identified all patients with transient ischaemic attack (TIA), IS and non-traumatic intracranial haemorrhage (ICH; including intracerebral, subdural and subarachnoid bleeding types) admitted to one of the 11 public hospitals in Styria (covering  >  95% of inhospital cerebrovascular events in this region). Information was e...
Source: Journal of Neurology - September 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

STudy of Alteplase for Respiratory failure in SARS-Cov2 COVID-19 (STARS): A Vanguard Multicenter, Rapidly Adaptive, Pragmatic, Randomized, Controlled Trial
Chest. 2021 Sep 27:S0012-3692(21)04063-0. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.09.024. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Pulmonary vascular microthrombi are a proposed mechanism of COVID19 respiratory failure. We hypothesized that early administration of tissue-plasminogen activator(tPA) followed by therapeutic heparin would improve pulmonary function in these patients.RESEARCH QUESTION: Does tPA improve pulmonary function in severe COVID-19 respiratory failure, and is it safe?STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Adults with COVID-19-induced respiratory failure were randomized May14,2020-March 3,2021 in two phases: Phase-1(n=36): contro...
Source: Chest - September 30, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Christopher D Barrett Hunter B Moore Ernest E Moore D Janice Wang Negin Hajizadeh Walter L Biffl Lawrence Lottenberg Purvesh R Patel Michael S Truitt Robert McIntyre Todd M Bull Lee Anne Ammons Arsen Ghasabyan James Chandler Ivor Douglas Eric Schmidt Pete Source Type: research