FRIDAY, April 26, 2024-- Nearly two-thirds of survivors of severe COVID-19 discharged to long-term acute care hospitals have persistent impairments at one year, according to a study published online April 10 in Critical Care Medicine.Anil...
https://www.drugs.com/news/two-thirds-survivors-most-severe-covid-19-face-impairment-one-year-118931.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024-- In 2023, birth rates in the United States were down, according to an April Vital Statistics Rapid Release provisional report, a publication from the National Center for Health Statistics.Brady E. Hamilton, Ph.D., from the...
https://www.drugs.com/news/births-united-states-declined-2023-118932.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024-- Serum biomarkers can predict knee osteoarthritis before radiographic abnormalities, according to a study published in the April 26 issue of Science Advances. Virginia Byers Kraus, M.D., Ph.D., from the Duke Molecular...
https://www.drugs.com/news/serum-biomarkers-predict-knee-oa-before-radiographic-abnormalities-118933.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Administration of antenatal corticosteroids to persons at risk for late preterm delivery is not associated with adverse childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6 years or older, according to a study published online...
https://www.drugs.com/news/antenatal-corticosteroids-do-not-negatively-impact-offspring-118921.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Use of acid-suppression therapy is associated with higher odds of migraine or severe headache, according to a study published online April 24 in Neurology: Clinical Practice.Margaret Slavin, Ph.D., from the University of...
https://www.drugs.com/news/acid-suppression-therapy-linked-migraine-severe-headache-118923.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective treatment for serious mental illness, according to a study presented at the annual congress of the European Psychiatric Association, held from April 6 to 9 in...
https://www.drugs.com/news/electroconvulsive-therapy-safe-effective-range-serious-mental-illnesses-118922.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) intra-abdominal injury and traumatic brain injury rules show a high degree of accuracy in pediatric emergency departments, according to a study published in the...
https://www.drugs.com/news/pecarn-prediction-rules-ct-imaging-show-accuracy-118925.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Nursing homes with staffing shortages have higher inappropriate antipsychotic medication use, particularly among nursing homes in severely deprived neighborhoods, according to a study published online April 24 in JAMA...
https://www.drugs.com/news/nursing-home-staff-shortages-tied-more-inappropriate-antipsychotic-118927.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Declines in heart failure-related mortality from 1999 to 2012 were entirely reversed from 2012 to 2021, according to a research letter published online April 24 in JAMA Cardiology.Ahmed Sayed, M.B.B.S., from Ain Shams...
https://www.drugs.com/news/gains-heart-failure-mortality-have-been-erased-118926.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Large language models (LLMs) are approaching expert-level knowledge and reasoning skills in ophthalmology, according to a study published online April 17 in PLOS Digital Health.Arun James Thirunavukarasu, M.B., B.Chir.,...
https://www.drugs.com/news/ai-shows-good-clinical-knowledge-reasoning-eye-issues-118929.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Vosoritide is safe and effective in increasing growth velocity in children with hypochondroplasia, according to a study published online April 11 in eClinicalMedicine.Andrew Dauber, M.D., from the Children's National...
https://www.drugs.com/news/vosoritide-safe-effective-children-hypochondroplasia-118928.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- For patients with advanced adrenocortical carcinoma, cabozantinib shows promising efficacy, according to a study published online April 9 in The Lancet Oncology.Matthew T. Campbell, M.D., from The University of Texas MD...
https://www.drugs.com/news/cabozantinib-promising-advanced-adrenocortical-carcinoma-118924.htmlFRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Anktiva (N-803, or nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln) plus Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) for the treatment of patients with BCG-unresponsive, non-muscle...
https://www.drugs.com/news/fda-approves-anktiva-bcg-unresponsive-non-muscle-invasive-bladder-cancer-118930.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024-- Antibiotics have no measurable impact on the severity or duration of cough due to acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) among adults presenting to primary care or urgent care, according to a study published...
https://www.drugs.com/news/antibiotics-not-helpful-cough-due-lower-respiratory-tract-infection-118907.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024-- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDPs) are strong risk factors for pregnancy-associated mortality due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) at delivery through one year postpartum, according to a study published online...
https://www.drugs.com/news/hypertensive-disorders-pregnancy-raise-risk-postpartum-mortality-one-year-118908.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- Active-duty servicewomen in the United States appear to have an increased occurrence of low-birth-weight babies compared with nonservice women, according to a review published online April 22 in BMJ Military...
https://www.drugs.com/news/occurrence-low-birth-weight-babies-heightened-active-duty-servicewomen-118903.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- The spatial distribution, timing, and magnitude of tau burden differs for people with Down syndrome and those with autosomal-dominant Alzheimer disease, according to a study published in the May issue of The Lancet...
https://www.drugs.com/news/differences-id-d-tau-burden-down-syndrome-alzheimer-118899.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- A semiautonomous breast cancer screening system reduces false positives with screening mammograms, according to a study published online April 10 in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.Stefano Pedemonte, Ph.D., from...
https://www.drugs.com/news/ai-model-reduces-false-positives-screening-mammograms-118905.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- There is significant global variation in COVID-19 treatment recommendations and disease severity stratifications, according to a study published online April 22 in BMJ Global Health.Mia Cokljat, M.B.Ch.B., from the...
https://www.drugs.com/news/covid-19-guidelines-show-great-global-variance-118898.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- More than half of women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant are very likely to get vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during pregnancy, according to a study published online April 25 in...
https://www.drugs.com/news/most-moms-interested-rsv-vaccination-during-pregnancy-118897.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- The risk for postoperative respiratory complications is similar among patients undergoing emergency surgery regardless of preoperative glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) use, according to a research...
https://www.drugs.com/news/glp1-receptor-agonists-do-not-up-risk-complications-after-emergency-surgery-118904.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- For almost all patients with sickle cell disease, treatment with exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) eliminates vaso-occlusive crises, according to a study published in the April 24 issue of the New England Journal of...
https://www.drugs.com/news/exa-cel-eliminates-vaso-occlusive-crises-most-sickle-cell-patients-118901.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- The percentage of women experiencing impaired fecundity did not change between 2011 and 2019, according to a study published online April 24 in National Health Statistics Reports, a publication from the National Center...
https://www.drugs.com/news/impaired-fecundity-rate-women-unchanged-2011-2019-118900.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- Prenatal opioid exposure seems not to be associated with a meaningful increase in the risk for neuropsychiatric disorders in offspring, according to a study published online April 24 in The BMJ.Jiseung Kang, Ph.D., from...
https://www.drugs.com/news/prenatal-opioid-exposure-not-tied-neuropsychiatric-disorders-offspring-118906.htmlTHURSDAY, April 25, 2024 -- For patients with relapsed or refractory CD7-positive leukemia or lymphoma, sequential CD7 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy followed by haploidentical hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is safe...
https://www.drugs.com/news/cd7-car-t-cell-therapy-stem-cell-transplant-beneficial-cd7-positive-tumors-118902.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Tobacco smoking is negatively associated with resolution of psoriasis symptoms, according to a study published in the April issue of Tobacco Induced Diseases.Yan Qiang, from the School of Medicine at Tongji University...
https://www.drugs.com/news/tobacco-smoking-reduces-odds-psoriasis-improvement-118884.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Young-onset breast cancer (YOBC) with germline BRCA pathogenic variants (PVs) is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality if diagnosed within 10 years after childbirth, according to a study published...
https://www.drugs.com/news/mortality-up-breast-cancer-diagnosed-within-10-years-childbirth-118876.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Middle-aged Black women with better heart health are less likely to show a decline in mental function, according to a study published online April 24 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.Imke Janssen,...
https://www.drugs.com/news/good-heart-health-may-protect-against-cognitive-decline-black-women-118881.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Self-administered acupressure (SAA) is an efficacious and cost-effective approach to relieve knee pain in middle-aged and older adults with probable knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a study published online April...
https://www.drugs.com/news/self-administered-acupressure-reduces-knee-pain-suspected-osteoarthritis-118880.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Northeastern U.S. seafood consumers may be exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) concentrations that potentially pose a health risk, according to a study published online April 12 in Exposure and...
https://www.drugs.com/news/seafood-consumption-tied-forever-chemical-exposure-risk-118879.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) receptor agonist use does not appear to be associated with an increased risk for thyroid cancer, according to a study published online April 10 in The BMJ.Björn Pasternak, M.D.,...
https://www.drugs.com/news/glp1-receptor-agonist-does-not-seem-increase-risk-thyroid-cancer-118877.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Computed tomography fractional flow reserve (CT-FFR) improves assessment of vessel blockages and reduces the number of stenosis patients referred for invasive revascularization procedures, according to a study published...
https://www.drugs.com/news/noninvasive-imaging-aids-selection-stenosis-patients-needing-revascularization-procedure-118878.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Wearable technology is feasible to assess postural ergonomics and provide objective biofeedback to neurosurgeons, according to a pilot study published online April 19 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine.Alejandro...
https://www.drugs.com/news/wearable-technology-during-surgery-provides-neurosurgeons-postural-info-118882.htmlWEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- ChatGPT shows promise in polypharmacy management and deprescribing medications among the elderly, according to a study published online April 18 in the Journal of Medical Systems.Arya Rao, from Harvard Medical...
https://www.drugs.com/news/ai-may-useful-polypharmacy-management-118883.htmlThe annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology was held this year from April 13 to 18 in Denver, drawing participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others interested in...
https://www.drugs.com/news/american-academy-neurology-april-13-18-118860.htmlTUESDAY, April 23, 2024 -- Nearly one-quarter of patients show persistent early knee osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms six to 12 months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), according to a study recently published in the Journal of...
https://www.drugs.com/news/knee-osteoarthritis-common-after-acl-reconstruction-118874.htmlTUESDAY, April 23, 2024 -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new online heat forecaster to help communities better prepare for summer's scorching temperatures.The HeatRisk Forecast Tool is a joint effort between...
https://www.drugs.com/news/cdc-launches-online-tool-help-americans-manage-extreme-heat-118861.htmlTUESDAY, April 23, 2024 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising people to use the Heimlich maneuver to aid a choking victim and not rely on over-the-counter anti-choking devices."The safety and effectiveness of over-the-counter...
https://www.drugs.com/news/fda-urges-public-heimlich-not-anti-choking-devices-save-lives-118862.htmlTUESDAY, April 23, 2024 -- Only 4 percent of cancer survivors are fully adherent to current American Cancer Society (ACS) nutrition and physical activity guidelines, according to a study published online April 18 in JAMA Oncology.Carter Baughman,...
https://www.drugs.com/news/few-cancer-survivors-fully-adherent-acs-nutrition-physical-activity-guidelines-118850.htmlTUESDAY, April 23, 2024 -- For longer-term nursing home residents, initiation of antihypertensive medication is associated with an increased risk for fractures and falls, according to a study published online April 22 in JAMA Internal...
https://www.drugs.com/news/antihypertensive-meds-initiation-linked-fractures-nursing-home-seniors-118851.htmlThe views and opinions expressed in this feed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Elizabeth Pharmacy. Elizabeth Pharmacy does not warrant the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of the information contained on this feed. If you have a particular complaint about something you’ve found on this web site, feel free to contact us.