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The corticosteroid dexamethasone was associated with a 56% lower risk of death and intensive care unit (ICU) admission among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and is safe to use in monitored diabetes patients, according to research presented at this week's Society for Endocrinology annual conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that progress against healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), including those caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, took a step back in 2020.
Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were 93% and 96% effective, respectively, in preventing severe, critical, or fatal disease caused by the highly transmissible Delta (B1617.2) variant, a study today in Nature Medicine finds.
A third Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose is 92% more effective in reducing severe COVID-related outcomes than two doses of the same vaccine received at least 5 months previously, according to a large real-world study late last week in The Lancet.
First responders' risk for COVID-19 infection is about 60% more than other essential workers, including healthcare workers (HCWs), according to a study published late last week in JAMA Health Forum.
People with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities had a greater mortality risk during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to a study published late last week in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today recommended the RTS,S malaria vaccine for children in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas of moderate and high Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission. The recommendation paves the way for global health groups to make funding and vaccine rollout plans and for countries to decide whether to include vaccination in their malaria control programs.
Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the end of 2020 had a higher mortality rate than those who received it in the first half of the year, according to a study published yesterday in The Lancet.
Seven COVID-19 symptoms can maximize detection of COVID-19 in the community, according to a large study published in PLOS Medicine yesterday that looked at data from England's REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study.
A review and meta-analysis of point-prevalence surveys conducted in Asia over the past two decades found concerning levels of resistance to first-line and last-resort antibiotics in foodborne pathogens isolated from aquatic animals, researchers reported late last week in Nature Communications.
