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Depression and loneliness have increased among older adults during the pandemic, prompting a need for more coordinated efforts to address the issue, according to a report on social isolation in older Canadians.
A review of data on Medicare beneficiaries during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic found that nearly a third of outpatient COVID-19 visits were linked to an antibiotic prescription, mainly for azithromycin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers reported late last week in JAMA.
Those hit hardest: doctors, long-term care workers, aides, marginalized groups, and women with young kids.
An Omicron spike in Hong Kong with high mortality may be due to low vaccine uptake in older people.
The problem is USDA testing doesn't verify claims of no antibiotics, experts note.
Backyard flocks are hit in Montana, and Indiana reports another farm outbreak, its first in about a month.
A study of hospitals in Iowa that employ three different antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) models found that core stewardship activities were maintained during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology.
A study today in Pediatrics suggests a test-to-stay (TTS) strategy, as opposed to quarantine, was a safe and effective tool for Massachusetts public schools for the 2021-22 school year, as it was associated with both limited COVID-19 transmission and increased in-person learning days for students.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Risk rose within 70 days for deep vein thrombosis and 110 days for pulmonary embolism.
With 6 new outbreaks, Minnesota now has had 21 and has lost more than 1 million poultry.
The true number of African cases might be 98 times higher than official numbers.
Tebipenem HBr may be an option for complicated urinary tract infections and pyelonephritis.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday published a strategic framework for One Health collaborations on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A new systematic review and meta-analysis of three randomized clinical trials with 2,196 patients suggests that early use of the antidepressant fluvoxamine reduces the risk of all-cause hospitalization in symptomatic adult outpatients.
Among SARS-CoV-2 isolates, 99.8% are Omicron, and 93.6% of those are the faster-spreading BA.2 subvariant.
The White House plan includes increased funding, clinician education, bolstered healthcare coverage, and expansion of clinics.
"It is sobering to see how many health care workers are troubled at a moral level."
A study in Israel during the Omicron variant surge finds that rates of COVID-19 infection and severe illness were lower after a fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine than after three doses, and while protection against infection waned quickly after 4 weeks, protection against severe disease was still strong at 6 weeks.
Observational research set to be presented later this month at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) suggests close contact with pets could result in sharing of multidrug-resistant bacteria and resistance genes.
