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Administering flu vaccines to children having surgery substantially boosts vaccination rates

Actively offering an influenza (flu) vaccination to children having surgery and general anesthesia increased the number of patients vaccinated by 3,500% at Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, according to a study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2021 annual meeting.

11 Oct 2021

Kidney transplant patients are more susceptible to harmless bacterium, finds study

It's a pervasive bacterium found in soil and water that rarely causes disease, but a new national review of nocardia infection in people who have had a kidney transplant shows that when it occurs it most commonly causes pneumonia and brain abscess, and reminds their physicians to stay on the lookout for it, investigators say

11 Oct 2021

Oral acetaminophen helps manage tonsillectomy pain in children at lower costs

Providing children oral instead of intravenous (IV) acetaminophen to help manage tonsillectomy pain improves care at lower costs, according to research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2021 annual meeting.

11 Oct 2021

Post-surgical death rate is higher for minority children regardless of socioeconomic status

Minority children die after surgery at higher rates than white children regardless of socioeconomic status (SES), according to a first-of-its-kind study being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2021 annual meeting.

11 Oct 2021

Women on lower incomes more likely to suffer from pre and post-natal depression

A longitudinal study of Queensland families has found women on lower incomes are more likely to suffer from pre and post-natal depression.

11 Oct 2021

Sero-epidemiological insights into pathways to COVID-19 immunity

A new study posted to the medRxiv* server attempts to utilize serology as a tool to identify disparities in infection rates and vaccination coverage.

10 Oct 2021

Myocarditis after mRNA COVID vaccine extremely rare, most cases mild or moderate

The estimated incidence of myocarditis among patients that have received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) mRNA vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was 2.13 cases per 100,000 persons, primarily affecting young men and presenting mostly as mild or moderate illness, as demonstrated by a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

10 Oct 2021

Prenatal maternal distress during COVID linked to alterations in infant brain development

A new study discusses the effects of stress during pregnancy in the pandemic on the developing brain of the infant.

10 Oct 2021

Dynamic causal modeling for future projection of the COVID-19 pandemic

A new study utilizes dynamic causal modeling to predict the effects of letting SARS-CoV-2 sweep through a largely vaccinated population.

10 Oct 2021

Low risk of severe COVID-19 after first dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in Scotland

Hospital admissions and deaths due to COVID-19 were drastically reduced at two weeks or more from the first dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine.

10 Oct 2021

Study uncovers toxic air pollutant mixtures linked to poor childhood asthma outcomes

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a novel machine learning algorithm and used it to identify previously unknown mixtures of toxic air pollutants that appear to be linked to poor asthma outcomes later in a child's life.

8 Oct 2021

Vaccine clinical trial participants to be offered additional jabs

Vaccine clinical trial participants are to be offered the option to get additional vaccine doses from next week, to ensure they can travel abroad to countries which currently only accept vaccination records with approved for deployment COVID-19 vaccinations.

8 Oct 2021

More severe SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with greater risk of preterm birth

Researchers at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health's Perinatology Research Branch in Detroit have discovered that the more severely infected with COVID-19 a mother is, the more likely she is to experience preterm birth.

8 Oct 2021

Hospital News and Research

Administering flu vaccines to children having surgery substantially boosts vaccination rates

Kidney transplant patients are more susceptible to harmless bacterium, finds study

Oral acetaminophen helps manage tonsillectomy pain in children at lower costs

Post-surgical death rate is higher for minority children regardless of socioeconomic status

Women on lower incomes more likely to suffer from pre and post-natal depression

Sero-epidemiological insights into pathways to COVID-19 immunity

Myocarditis after mRNA COVID vaccine extremely rare, most cases mild or moderate

Prenatal maternal distress during COVID linked to alterations in infant brain development

Dynamic causal modeling for future projection of the COVID-19 pandemic

Low risk of severe COVID-19 after first dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in Scotland

Study uncovers toxic air pollutant mixtures linked to poor childhood asthma outcomes

Vaccine clinical trial participants to be offered additional jabs

More severe SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with greater risk of preterm birth

Genetics can influence a person's response to Alzheimer's disease pathology, research suggests

Study explores the relationship between cytokines in saliva and COVID-19 severity

Mental health disorders in adolescents linked to long-term exclusion from education, labor market

New Maternal and Child Health Research Institute launched to improve national health in Singapore

Study aims to find ways of identifying children at risk for severe COVID-19

Organ centers to transplant patients: Get a covid shot or move down on waitlist

Covid immunity through infection or vaccination: Are they equal?

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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