No One Is Coming to Help Rural hospitals have been fighting a losing battle during the COVID pandemic Feb 20, 2022
Ivermectin Flops Again for COVID, This Time in High-Risk Adults Malaysian trial finds no difference in progression to severe disease over standard of care Feb 18, 2022
HIV Self-Tests Reached High-Risk Populations CDC researchers found a substantial minority of patients had never been tested Feb 18, 2022
Is Informed Consent Being Used as a Guise for Spreading Misinformation? Physician group says it's neither pro nor anti-vax, but its social media suggests otherwise Feb 17, 2022
Ablating High-Grade Anal Lesions Thwarts Progression to Cancer Screening followed by aggressive therapy shows benefit in phase III ANCHOR study Feb 17, 2022
Injectable Sotrovimab Offers Another Route for COVID Treatment Intramuscular version of monoclonal antibody on par with infusion Feb 17, 2022
COVID Makes Everything Worse in Pregnancy And those with HIV experienced the worst outcomes Feb 17, 2022
Doc Group Pushes Ivermectin for Long COVID FLCCC promotes 20 therapies: like "throwing spaghetti against the wall," one expert says Feb 17, 2022
Young Women Prefer Vaginal Ring as HIV Prevention But oral pre-exposure prophylaxis also gets support, study in Africa finds Feb 17, 2022
Full Data on Pfizer's Oral COVID Drug Now Published Journal paper adds details supporting press release claims, FDA authorization Feb 17, 2022
Fewer Pills Plus Shorter Time: New Way to Control Drug-Resistant TB? Randomized trial looks at three investigational regimens versus standard of care Feb 17, 2022
Novel Drug Shows Promise for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Challenge trial involving healthy adults showed superiority to placebo at multiple doses Feb 16, 2022
Universal HCV Screening in Pregnancy Boosts Detection More cases found verses risk-based approach, also IDs perinatal transmission, researcher says Feb 16, 2022
ART-Free Strategy Could Control HIV in Some African Kids Broadly neutralizing antibodies show promise in proof-of-concept study in Botswana Feb 16, 2022
Some Never Get COVID; Private Equity Targets Nurse Staffing Firms; $13K Donor Bill This past week in healthcare investigations Feb 16, 2022
Third Person 'Cured' of HIV via Transplant U.S. woman with leukemia gets cord blood resistant to HIV Feb 16, 2022
Novel Strategy Slashes HBV Vertical Transmission Sans Immunoglobulin Cambodian study finds antenatal antiviral effective if used for long enough Feb 15, 2022
U.S. Sees Drop in Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis One of every 120 Americans will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, analysis suggests Feb 15, 2022
Was a 19th Century Global Pandemic a Case of COVID 1.0? Medical historians suspect Russian flu was caused by a coronavirus and holds lessons for today Feb 15, 2022
Extend the Interval Between COVID Vaccine Doses The safety and effectiveness data should prompt CDC to update its policy Feb 14, 2022
Discouraging Our Children From Becoming Doctors The other "Great Resignation" in medicine Feb 10, 2022
Despite 2 Revoked Licenses, Doc Still Prescribing Ivermectin Via Telehealth With 2 licenses remaining, Kathleen Ann Cullen writes scripts through America's Frontline Doctors Feb 10, 2022
History of Pancreatitis Linked to Severe COVID-19 Outcomes Electronic medical record data reveal greater risk for hospitalization, death after infection Feb 10, 2022
Recurrent Autoimmune Hepatitis Post-Liver Transplant: What Are the Risks? Probability of recurrent disease more than doubled from 5 to 20 years later Feb 09, 2022
Which Kids Are More Likely to Develop MIS-C? Large U.S. pediatric cohort examined variables that contribute to higher risk Feb 08, 2022
Did Improved Treatment for Cervical Abnormalities Affect Birth Outcomes? Swedish data found risks for adverse outcomes remain higher, but declined over time Feb 07, 2022
What You Need to Know About That 'Johns Hopkins' Lockdown Study "All of this adds up to a very weird review paper" Feb 07, 2022
ACIP Embraces Spikevax Amid Serious Talk of Changing mRNA Dosing Interval Would longer time between doses do the trick to reduce myocarditis risk? Feb 04, 2022
CDC Isolation Guidance for Public Fails Test in Study Pre-print on hospital workers finds sizable proportion still positive 5 days after symptom onset Feb 04, 2022
Restaurant Ensnared in Doc's Alleged Ivermectin, HCQ Prescribing Scheme Edith Behr, MD, fired over accusations of prescribing drugs via Taste of Sicily's Facebook page Feb 04, 2022
COVID Brain Changes Show Parallels With Alzheimer's Disease Findings may point to potential mechanism for brain fog in people with long COVID Feb 04, 2022
Gay, Lesbian Adults Vaxxed Against COVID at Higher Clip However, disparities by race persist Feb 04, 2022
More Evidence Fuels Debate Over Strep Infections and Tics Group A strep not tied to tics in kids with family history Feb 03, 2022
COVID Not Riskier Early vs Late in Pregnancy But one in 10 cases in pregnancy progressed to moderate-severe illness Feb 03, 2022
Study: Xofluza May Best Tamiflu in Reducing Family Spread Simulated model suggests 73% more transmission if index cases received oseltamivir Feb 03, 2022
Army Boots Vax Refuseniks; 'Havana Syndrome' Culprit ID'd; More Spotify Fallout A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Feb 03, 2022
Challenge Trial Shows People With COVID Shed Virus After Just 2 Days No safety concerns in small study of healthy young adults, supporting further trials, authors say Feb 02, 2022
Is Money Driving Those Who Spread COVID Disinformation? Milton Packer is amazed to learn what monetizing followers can do for writers Feb 02, 2022
Can We Catch COVID From Our Pets? Jumps between species provide ample opportunity for virus to change, says Benjamin tenOever Feb 01, 2022 video
Anti-Vax Newsletters Pull in $2.5M on Substack Experts on the platform wary: "My life has been threatened because of disinformation" Feb 01, 2022
