American Hospital Association Joins Others in Support of COVID Vax Mandates Largest U.S.-based healthcare organization to advocate for these requirements so far Jul 22, 2021
Shingles Risk Slashed in IBD Patients After Vaccine Study found certain medications also showed lower incidence rates Jul 20, 2021
Large Ivermectin Study Retracted Preprint publisher finds evidence of plagiarism, problems with raw data Jul 20, 2021
Why Are Tick-Borne Illnesses Increasing in the U.S.? Heightened awareness, growing population, and climate change all play a role Jul 19, 2021
Are Patients Spreading SARS-CoV-2 to Their Hospital Roommates? A new study explores the data and implications Jul 17, 2021
Company Shut Down Robot Mid-Surgery; Infected in Quarantine; Investigating Aduhelm This past week in healthcare investigations Jul 14, 2021
Ivermectin and Aducanumab: Do They Work? ZDoggMD and Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, analyze the evidence Jul 13, 2021
Beta Variant May Be Deadlier, South African Hospital Data Suggests Increases in hospitalizations, deaths in country's second COVID-19 wave Jul 12, 2021
How Many People Skipped Their Second COVID Shot? New CDC data say 15 million people in the U.S. have not completed their vaccination series Jul 09, 2021
Awaited Ivermectin Review Is Out Findings are positive, but critics still want a large randomized controlled trial Jul 08, 2021
Skin Rash Should Be a Huge Red Flag for LVAD Recipients, Group Says New phenomenon suggests perils of not performing biopsy in time Jul 07, 2021
Did Fecal Transplant Stop COVID in Its Tracks? Two Polish patients co-infected with C difficile saw improvements Jul 06, 2021
COVID Surges Emerge; FDA Warns About Chantix; Lions, Tigers, Bears Get Vaxxed A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Jul 06, 2021
Cases of Rare Liver Complication Seen With Severe COVID-19 Higher prevalence of condition in COVID patients than influenza patients, researcher says Jul 01, 2021
Medfluencer: Who Is TikTok Superstar Dr. Noc? Meet the social media sensation who's fighting COVID lies online Jun 30, 2021 video
COVID-19 Pandemic Upped Anxiety in Adults, Kids With Diabetes Providers should be screening patients on how COVID is affecting them, says researcher Jun 29, 2021
Liver Fibrosis Linked to Lower Response to COVID Vaccine Third dose may be needed in this population as well as some transplant patients, says researcher Jun 25, 2021
The Murky Post-Pandemic Future of Hepatitis C Elimination in the U.S. Modeling study demonstrates need to rebound or risk losing progress Jun 25, 2021
Rise in Alcohol Dependence Seen During Pandemic AUD in U.K. study tied to worse COVID outcomes and more mental health problems as well Jun 25, 2021
ACIP Backs Flu and COVID Vaccine Co-Administration Committee also voted on dengue, rabies vaccines for kids Jun 25, 2021
Q&A: How Patients Can Get Wise to Bad Billing Practices Marshall Allen discusses how patients and providers can fight back against medical overbilling Jun 22, 2021
Birthdays: Cake, Ice Cream ... and Increased COVID Risk? Study makes a link, but public health implications hard to see Jun 21, 2021
AMA Debates Value of Natural Immunity to COVID Should those who have had a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection receive vaccination credentials? Jun 17, 2021
Hopeful Dads Can Relax About COVID Vax: No Link to Infertility The real threat to male sexual health is COVID-19 itself, says study author Jun 17, 2021
Is Old Vaccine Technology the Key to Hesitancy? Experts weigh whether Novavax's protein subunit strategy can convince some COVID vaccine holdouts Jun 17, 2021
Experts Confident About COVID Vaccines' Long-Term Safety "I know of no precedent of a long-term effect that comes up 5 or 10 years later," expert says Jun 11, 2021
Docs, Scientists Call on FDA to Delay Approval of COVID Vaccines Data should be from completed phase III trials, not interim results, group says Jun 10, 2021
Physicians Are Fed Up With Inconsistent Hospital Visitation Policies Keeping strict rules in place is "anti-medicine," critical care expert says Jun 10, 2021
Two HHS Nominees Have Fairly Easy Time at Senate Hearing Opioid crisis, drug supply chain among senators' concerns Jun 08, 2021
Op-Ed: Needling Friends to Get the COVID Jab? Stop Here's a hot take on vaccine holdouts: leave them alone Jun 07, 2021
The Complex Ethical Morass of COVID-19 Human Challenge Trials "The end doesn't justify any and all means," ethicist says Jun 07, 2021
More Insight on Which Kids Are Most at Risk for Severe COVID-19 Large database helps inform differences in pediatric illness patterns Jun 07, 2021
I Spy an Opportunistic Infection? Providers should monitor for "black fungus" and other infections being associated with COVID Jun 07, 2021
CDC: Worrisome Spike in Younger Teens' COVID Hospitalizations Data through April add urgency to calls for adolescent vaccination Jun 04, 2021
Additional Infections Rare in Hospitalized COVID Patients Most were secondary infections, U.K. researchers found Jun 03, 2021
Guns for Vaccinations; IU Health Joins the Mandate Club; NFL Ends 'Race-Norming' A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Jun 03, 2021
Suicide Continues to Get Sad Before It Gets Sadder Novel research and definitions are essential to reversing bleak trends Jun 02, 2021
Inside Hahnemann's Demise; Fauci: Society 'Totally Nuts'; Anti-Vax Law Firm This past week in healthcare investigations Jun 02, 2021
What Drives COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Among Moms? Social pressures, misinformation are at play Jun 02, 2021
