CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL COLORADO “It used to be rare to hear about a child with type 2 diabetes, but its prevalence in adolescents has almost doubled in the past 20 years,” said Dr. Kesley. “Type 2 diabetes is associated with rapidly progressive disease and early onset of complications and, unfortunately, was on the rise even prior...
Tag: <span>COVID-19 pandemic</span>
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Patients Interrupting DMARD Use Well Into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jeff Craven February 17, 2022 Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in the proportion of patients with rheumatic diseases who stopped taking their disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), but the percentage who interrupted DMARD treatment increased later in the pandemic, according to...
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Eating disorder symptoms and self-harm linked to higher levels of depression and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL The study, led by the University of Bristol and funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, Medical Research Council, and Medical Research Foundation, has been published in the Journal of Eating Disorders. It looked at questionnaire information for 2,657 individuals from world-renowned health study Children of the 90s (also known as the Avon Longitudinal...
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COVID-19 pandemic led to stark rise in depressive and anxiety disorders globally in 2020: study
by Lancet COVID-19 pandemic led to stark rise in depressive and anxiety disorders globally in 2020, with women and younger people most affected. Credit: The Lancet Cases of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders increased by more than a quarter worldwide in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the first global estimates of...
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If relaxed too soon, physical distancing measures might have been all for naught
by Stuart Wolpert, University of California, Los Angeles If physical distancing measures in the United States are relaxed while there is still no COVID-19 vaccine or treatment and while personal protective equipment remains in short supply, the number of resulting infections could be about the same as if distancing had never been implemented to begin...
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Rapid COVID-19 test detects neutralising antibodies with high specificity and sensitivity
by Duke-NUS Medical School As the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to adversely impact communities and economies across the world, efficiency in testing for the infection and antibodies is vital. A unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test (sVNT), developed in Singapore, may be the much-needed boost to current COVID-19 investigations to determine infection rate,...
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The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to end the pandemic
Researchers are scrambling to find other ways to diagnose the coronavirus and churn out millions of tests a week — a key step in returning to normality. The timing couldn’t have been worse. In March, just as Thailand’s coronavirus outbreak began to ramp up, three hospitals in Bangkok announced that they had suspended testing for...
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Silver Lining to Coronavirus Crisis: Telehealth May Improve Patient Adherence And Persistence
For decades, poor medication adherence has been recognized as a significant and persistent problem in the healthcare system. Since a report published in 2000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, numerous studies have shown that up to 50% of patients exhibit varying degrees of non-adherence and non-persistence. Poor adherence and persistence contribute...
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Tuberculosis vaccine strengthens immune system
by University of Bonn A tuberculosis vaccine developed 100 years ago also makes vaccinated persons less susceptible to other infections. While this effect has been recognized for a long time, it is not known what causes it. Together with colleagues from Australia and Denmark, researchers from Radboud university medical center the universities of Nijmegen and...
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Study uncovers link between psoriasis and joint disease
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) A team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers has made two major discoveries involving psoriasis, a chronic and debilitating skin disease with no known cure. The researchers found that an overabundance of a protein known as KLK6 can produce and worsen the skin inflammation characteristic...