Month: May 2022

The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the week. Topics include long COVID

Patients who have histologically active ulcerative colitis (UC) with a Mayo endoscopic subscore (MES) of 1 and a history of steroid use may be at increased risk for clinical relapse, according to a new single-center, retrospective analysis. In recent years, treat-to-target approaches in UC have incorporated clinician and patient-reported outcomes, along with endoscopic remission, defined

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has vowed to exert more effort in better understanding long COVID while still monitoring the ongoing pandemic.  More than two years into the global health crisis, the medical community has become more perplexed by the syndrome of conditions that continues to persist in millions of people who

Eosinophilic GI diseases (EGIDs) often overlap with other eosinophil-associated diseases (EADs), which leads to greater health care costs, according to an analysis of the U.S. Optum Clinformatics claims database. EADs have gained increased attention in recent years. They include eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), eosinophilic asthma, bullous pemphigoid, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, eosinophilic gastritis/gastroenteritis (EG/EGE), and a subset of

Laboratory personnel and those responding to outbreaks of orthopoxviruses, including smallpox and monkeypox, should be vaccinated with Jynneos, finalized recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said on Friday. For healthcare personnel who either administer ACAM2000 or care for patients infected with orthopoxviruses, Jynneos is recommended based on shared clinical decision-making, reported

Ever since medical experts sounded alarm over the monkeypox outbreak, many have been fearing for another possible pandemic in spite of the COVID-19 global health crisis still going on. To help address the trepidation, public health agencies have decided to release some guidelines on how to stay safe and protected from the monkeypox virus.  The

SAN DIEGO, California — Race-based recommendations and clinical algorithms may be doing more harm than good, according to a systematic review of databases and guidelines. The study found examples of screening recommendations based on race or ethnicity that were likely misleading since these are social constructs that don’t reflect a patient’s individual risk, said Shazia

Graham was a healthy 34-year-old until he developed COVID in July 2020. Along with his wife and children, he had a fever, a cough, breathlessness, profound fatigue and he lost his sense of smell. But instead of getting better like the rest of his family, Graham found that his breathlessness persisted. Even minor physical exertion

Takotsubo syndrome occurs much more frequently in women than it does in men, but men are much more likely to die from it, according to the results of a new study. In an analysis of almost 2,500 patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TSS) who were enrolled in an international registry, men, who made up just 11%