Uveitis History Linked to Recurrence After COVID Vaccination
(MedPage Today) -- People with a history of uveitis were more likely to experience recurrences of the potentially dangerous eye inflammation after vaccination against COVID-19, a retrospective population-based cohort study from South Korea found... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Long COVID Taste Loss May Not Involve Taste Buds
(MedPage Today) -- Taste dysfunction was gone 1 year after exposure to COVID-19, but smell loss remained for some people, a national cross-sectional study showed.
Empirically measured taste function didn't differ between individuals who had acute... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 24, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Herpes B: A Hidden Menace in Monkeys
(MedPage Today) -- Picture this scene: someone in a tropical country wants to see monkeys living wild -- sitting in groups, standing, playing, swinging through trees. Then, in a flash, one free-roaming primate leaps and draws near, perhaps hoping... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 23, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Does Evidence Fully Support Antibiotic Use for Acute Sinusitis in Kids?
(MedPage Today) -- Use of antibiotics for acute sinusitis in children reduces treatment failures, a meta-analysis showed, but the results may also support initial observation given the natural history of the condition, according to the study authors... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 22, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Trials Identify Better Way to Select Antibiotics for UTIs, Pneumonia in Inpatients
(MedPage Today) -- Algorithm-driven prompts with patient-specific estimates about their risk of having a multidrug-resistant infection significantly reduced the use of empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics in adults hospitalized for urinary tract... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 19, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
'Sluggish' Hospital Uptake of Newer Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Infections
(MedPage Today) -- Hospital uptake of newer antibiotics to treat multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria was low over a 5-year period, according to a retrospective cohort study.
Fully 41.5% of episodes of difficult-to-treat resistant (DTR... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 19, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Antipsychotics in Dementia Tied to Wider Range of 'Serious Harms'
(MedPage Today) -- Use of antipsychotics in dementia patients was associated with an increased risk for a wider range of adverse outcomes than previously acknowledged, a population-based matched cohort study from the U.K. showed.
In the analysis... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 17, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
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
