Lupus Anticoagulant and Blood Clots Common in COVID-Hospitalized Patients
Lupus anticoagulant is common in COVID-hospitalized patients and COVID patients with positive LA may have increased risk of thrombosis....
12 August, 2020
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NEJM: Compression Therapy Prevention of Recurrent Cellulitis Without Antibiotics
Future research should explore and compare the costs related to cellulitis and compression therapy....
12 August, 2020 -
Metabolic Syndrome Can Help Identify Patients Who Benefit Most From PCSK9 Inhibition With Evolocumab – Repatha®
The future study should evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the therapeutic strategy based on presence or absence of metabolic syndrome in patients with ASCVD....
12 August, 2020 -
Possible Breakthrough Study in Down Syndrome
The study found a 10-week combined protocol of physical exercises and computerized brain training led to a reorganization of the brain and to improved performance on both cognitive and physical measures. ...
11 August, 2020 -
Genetic Change Detected in Brothers Helps Explain Why COVID-19 More Severe in Men
To our knowledge this is the first report that proposes a specific monogenic factor to develop severe COVID-19....
11 August, 2020 -
Contact Lenses in Childhood May Slow Development of Nearsightedness
Children as young as 7 years old have been shown in many studies to be capable of independent wear and care of contact lenses....
11 August, 2020 -
Orthostatic Hypotension Linked to Increased Dementia Risk
Most people think of dementia as one condition and vascular disease as a separate one when there is actually tremendous overlap and interplay between the two....
10 August, 2020 -
UPMC Study Reports Patterns of COVID-19 Testing from Large Health Care System
We found that retesting was uncommon, patients positive for COVID-19 stayed positive for an average of three weeks and repeating tests in patients who were initially negative very rarely led to a positive result....
10 August, 2020 -
Brain Patterns Differ Between Partisans and Political Non-Partisans
Nonpartisans are a large portion of the American electorate and campaigns seeking to reach them will need to appreciate that nonpartisans have different attitudes towards politics....
10 August, 2020 -
Injections of Adenosine into Mouse Joints Reversed Osteoarthritis
The next research that my laboratory is doing is to better understand the mechanisms by which adenosine, acting at its receptors, prevents progression of osteoarthritis and contributes to its resolution...
10 August, 2020 -
How Does Wearing Makeup Influence Juries?
We found that wearing makeup is beneficial for middle-aged female defendants but detrimental for young female defendants. ...
10 August, 2020 -
COVID-19 Antibodies Among Health Care Works From a Large NYC Hospital
Northwell treated more COVID-positive patients than any other health system in the nation, including about 17,000 hospitalized patients. Accounting for those who were seen in the health system’s emergency departments, urgent care centers and physician practices, Northwell treated more than 55,000 COVID patients in total....
10 August, 2020 -
Disparities in Access to ICU Beds During COVID-19 Pandemic
We found that about a half of the lowest-income communities (less than $35,000 in household income) had zero ICU beds....
09 August, 2020 -
Hospitalizations for Heart Attacks Drop Sharply During COVID Pandemic
Our cross-sectional study found important changes in acute myocardial infarction hospitalization rates that appear to validate previous concerns that large numbers of patients with AMI initially avoided hospitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic....
07 August, 2020 -
How Does US Spending on Health Care for Seniors Compare to Other Countries?
These findings suggest that despite having a more similar health care structure to other high spending health care systems, the U.S. health care system for those aged over 65 continues to be more expensive than comparators, although spending growth does appear to level off at older ages...
06 August, 2020
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