Early use of steroids seems not to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) for non-multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) COVID-19 in children, according to a study published online Oct. 3 in JAMA Pediatrics. Sandeep Tripathi, M.D., from the Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria, and colleagues examined whether use of steroids within two days of admission for non-MIS-C COVID-19 […]

Deidre Sanders discusses her cancer diagnosis on This Morning We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Deidre Sanders, 77, has shared that she’s been diagnosed with breast […]

A study published in Anaesthesia shows the potential for using “cracking” technology to reduce the environmental impact of nitrous oxide (N2O), used extensively to manage pain during labor. The study was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of anesthetists and midwives from St John’s Hospital, Livingston, UK and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK. The lead author of the study […]

Community diagnostic centers (CDCs) have delivered more than two million vital tests, checks and scans for patients, with a further 10 centers now approved, the Health and Social Care Secretary has announced today October 11. These centers are busting the Covid backlogs by speeding up access to lifesaving tests. The one-stop shops, backed by £2.3 billion in government funding, offer […]

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University researchers have grasped the hem of that invisibility cloak and now hope they can pull it apart. To enter the cell and peacefully reproduce, many pathogenic bacteria, including Chlamydia, cloak themselves in a piece of […]

The disease burden attributable to nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is considerable and expected to continue increasing, according to a study published online July 30 in BMC Cancer. Wan Hu, from Anhui Medical University in Hefei, China, and colleagues report on the NMSC-related disease burden globally and the temporal trend of disease burden from 1990 to 2019; using the Bayesian age-period-cohort […]

The recent rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States foreshadowed the new monkeypox outbreak. The alarming STI numbers and a detailed description of monkeypox and its prevention and treatment are published in the peer-reviewed journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs. The 2.4 million cases of STIs recorded in the U.S. in 2020 reflected a 45% increase in […]

In the first known study of its type, an international team of researchers evaluated whether high research and development (R&D) costs explain high drug prices in the United States. “There is a presumption that high R&D costs justify high drug prices. If that were true, then we’d see a positive association between the two measures,” said first author Olivier Wouters, […]

A prominent sports medicine researcher who earlier this year had an editorial from his time as the top editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine retracted for plagiarism has lost nine more articles for stealing and recycling text and misrepresenting a reference.  The British Journal of Sports Medicine has also placed expressions of concern on all other articles on which Paul McCrory, who was the […]

It’s a figure that stands out. Black women have a 36% higher breast cancer mortality rate than other races in spite of having a similar incidence to White women. Black women also are both more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age than White women and have double the rate of the aggressive, harder-to-treat triple negative […]