Month: June 2022

Early in the pandemic, multiple studies showed that about half of people with COVID lost their sense of smell (called anosmia) at some point during the course of infection. Roughly an additional 20% to 35% experienced a clinical reduction in their ability to smell (hyposmia). Although more recent evidence suggests omicron might not lead to

Two new studies point to an ever-increasing number of young people in the United States who identify as transgender and nonbinary, with the figures doubling among 18- to 24-year-olds in one institute’s research — from 0.66% of the population in 2016 to 1.3% (398,900) this year. In addition, 1.4% (300,100) of 13- to 17-year-olds identify

Babies are at risk of suffering neurodevelopment problems when they become exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the womb, according to a new study.  The European Psychiatric Association and the University of Barcelona reported in their study that babies exposed to COVID-19 during pregnancy may have brain development issues.  According to the study, infants born to moms

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The Biden administration will stop requiring international air travelers to prove they’ve tested negative for COVID-19 before being allowed to enter the United States, CNN reported, citing a senior administration official. The rule change will be announced Friday and go into

An FDA advisory committee on Friday unanimously recommended betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel) for approval in patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, a chronic inherited blood disorder. With a 13-0 vote, FDA’s Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee said the benefits of the one-time, first-in-class lentiviral vector (LVV) gene therapy outweigh any of the risks associated with the

The death of a 31-year-old woman last year has been attributed to Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS), a condition that may be causing hundreds of people to die annually in the Australian state of Victoria. Advertising executive Catherine Keane died in her sleep last July while living with two friends in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Margherita Cummins,

Patients successfully resuscitated after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who did not have ST-segment elevation on their electrocardiogram did not benefit from emergency coronary angiography in a new randomized clinical trial. In the EMERGE trial, a strategy of emergency coronary angiography was not found to be better than a strategy of delayed coronary angiography with respect

Raw food diets are a fairly recent trend, including raw veganism. The belief being that the less processed food is, the better. However, not all food is more nutritious when eaten raw. Indeed, some vegetables are actually more nutritious when cooked. Here are nine of them. 1. Asparagus All living things are made up of

Drugmaker Takeda announced Thursday that its dengue vaccine candidate, TAK-003, prevented 84% of hospitalized dengue cases and 61% of symptomatic cases in 4.5 years of follow-up during its phase 3 TIDES trial. Critically importantly, they identified no important safety risks in this trial of more than 20,000 children and teens in Southeast Asia and Latin

[embedded content] In this video, Mikhail Varshavski, DO — who goes by “Dr. Mike” on social media — reviews medical-themed memes. Following is a transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): Varshavski: “If a UTI [urinary tract infection] was an outfit.” I would say it’s more like heartburn, but it could be a

A new bivalent booster vaccine from Moderna promises to be a ‘turning point’ in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as cases continue to rise in the U.S. and abroad. The new booster vaccine dose, announced Wednesday by the pharmaceutical and biotech company, targets the original COVID-19 variant and the new Omicron subvariants currently dominating

Blocked fallopian tubes can be opened using a brief and “ridiculously simple” outpatient procedure, often enabling natural conception and avoiding costly infertility treatments, researchers have found.   For the technique, clinicians use x-rays to determine where a fallopian tube is blocked — if indeed it is — then use a fine wire to clear any