By Pam Belluck There is an urgent need to address long-term symptoms of the coronavirus, leading public health officials said this week, warning that hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of people worldwide might experience lingering problems that could impede their ability to work and function normally. In a two-day meeting Thursday and Friday, the...
THE GEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT DARTMOUTH Results from a new study co-led by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Department of Surgery at Kuma Hospital in Kobe, Japan show that active surveillance can be successfully implemented as a viable treatment option for patients with low-risk thyroid cancer. The study is the...
Live vaccines can give health effects beyond just protecting us from a specific disease and may even help us combat other infections such as Covid-19, according to Christine Stabell Benn, a professor in global health at the University of Southern Denmark. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) We often think about vaccines protecting us against...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have come one step closer toward understanding why some people become seriously ill or die from a common bacterium that leaves most people unharmed. In a study published in The Lancet Microbe, the researchers linked RNA mutations within the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis to invasive meningococcal disease, marking the first...
How this infection will be diagnosed and treated by medical professionals in the years to come is outlined in a new Babesiosis Guideline issued today by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). This guideline is widely disseminated and is the go-to source for health workers and patients alike throughout the United States and beyond...
UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE Since its appearance in early 2020, COVID-19 has been unpredictable for both physicians and affected individuals given the variety and duration of its symptoms. Notably, it appears to have the potential to cause an unusually long-lasting illness, and the term “long COVID” describes the disease in people who continue to report symptoms...
by Marisol Martinez, Johns Hopkins University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a comprehensive review of 57 research studies looking at the quality of life of women with uterine fibroids compared with that of people with other chronic diseases, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that the psychological and social burden of the condition is comparable with those...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH SAN ANTONIO – Women who receive mastectomy and reconstructive surgery as part of breast cancer treatment may face the risk of developing persistent use of opioids and sedative-hypnotic drugs, according to data presented at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 8-11. “It has become clear that short-term...
WILEY Although weight loss surgery is a highly effective treatment for obesity, it can be detrimental to bone health. A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research suggests that exercise may help address this shortcoming. The study randomized 84 patients undergoing weight loss surgery to an exercise group or a control group for...
SOCIETY FOR HEALTHCARE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AMERICA NEW YORK (Dec. 9, 2020) — There is a widespread belief that a change in the mental status or an increase in falls in a nursing home resident may indicate an underlying infection. This contributes to the overuse of antibiotics, according to revised clinical guidance by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology...
