JULY 29TH, 2024POSTED BY YALE(Credit: Getty Images) TAGS COVID-19IMMUNE SYSTEMSUNIVERSITY YALE UNIVERSITY New research offers evidence that autoimmunity—in which the body’s immune system targets its own tissues—is a driver in some cases of Long COVID. Why COVID-19 sometimes leads to Long COVID still confounds doctors, but researchers have several hypotheses to explain its often-debilitating symptoms....
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IV vs Intranasal Ketamine: Which is Best?
Megan Brooks May 30, 2023 Intravenous ketamine and intranasal esketamine are both equally effective in improving symptoms of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in adults, but “speed and cost” appear to favor IV ketamine in clinical practice, results of an observational, single-center study show. Because of insurance restrictions on esketamine nasal spray, treatment initiation can take several weeks longer than IV...
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A Hospital Charged More Than $700 For Each Push Of Medicine Through Her IV
June 28, 20218:49 AM ET RAE ELLEN BICHELL Rose Wong for NPR/KHN Claire Lang-Ree was in a lab coat taking a college chemistry class remotely in the kitchen of her Colorado Springs, Colo., home when a profound pain twisted into her lower abdomen. She called her mom, Jen Lang-Ree, a nurse practitioner who worried it...
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This bulging lump on a 27-year-old man’s handwas triggered by a trip to the dentist and is a sign of a deadly infection (but can you guess the illness?)
The 27-year-old, from Vancouver, Canada, was diagnosed with endocarditis The killer infection can trigger heart failure and strikes one in 30,000 people Doctors believe that the infection actually triggered the bulging blood vessel A man was left with a bulging lump on his hand and a deadly heart infection after a simple trip to the...