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Telemedicine needed to diagnose and treat dysphagia in COVID-19 patients, doctors say
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Telemedicine needed to diagnose and treat dysphagia in COVID-19 patients, doctors say

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE CREDIT: GRAPHIC CREATED BY M.E. NEWMAN, JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE, WITH PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES. COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, have caused health care providers to change how they treat patients. Clinicians are now frequently using telemedicine to see their patients for routine checkups, saving office visits for emergencies. The same...

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Certain dietary supplements tied to dysphagia, choking in seniors

(HealthDay)—Most reports of swallowing problems caused by dietary supplements involve seniors taking multivitamins or calcium supplements, according to a research letter published online Aug. 20 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Cecile Punzalan, M.D., from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in College Park, Maryland, and colleagues used data from the FDA Center for Food...