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Acute myocarditis extremely rare after COVID mRNA vaccination in adults

Now, a new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine evaluated the incidence of acute myocarditis and clinical outcomes among adults who received the mRNA vaccine in an integrated health care system in the United States.

5 Oct 2021

Neonatal outcomes of preterm infants born during COVID lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia

A team of researchers from Australian institutes examined the consequences of community-wide lockdowns on neonatal outcomes of preterm infants, with a secondary focus on the underlying rates of systemic inflammation in infants and mothers around the time of birth.

5 Oct 2021

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern more virulent than the native strain of the virus

A large study from Ontario confirms that SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs), especially the Delta variant, are more virulent than the native strain of the virus, increasing people's risk of hospitalization, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and death due to COVID-19.

5 Oct 2021

New low-cost ventilator could address the shortage of ventilators in developing countries

A new low-cost ventilator design invented during COVID-19 could address the global shortage of ventilators for other respiratory diseases.

5 Oct 2021

Historic redlining associated with worse obstetric outcomes

Housing policies established more than eight decades ago that effectively trapped people of color in low income and segregated neighborhoods continues to impact the health of residents to this day, specifically resulting in poor obstetric outcomes such as pre-terms birth.

5 Oct 2021

Convalescent plasma is "futile" as COVID-19 treatment for critically ill patients, trial shows

In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical community turned to a century-old treatment: Take blood from recovered patients and give it to the sick.

4 Oct 2021

SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity are strongly associated with nasal microbiota

In a recent study, researchers conducted a nasopharyngeal microbiota profiling parallelism in an effort to analyze microbiota variations in COVID-19 patients.

3 Oct 2021

The connection between age and virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

A new study focuses on determining the existence of an age-related heterogeneity in the severity of COVID-19.

30 Sep 2021

Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of urbanites

Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated.

30 Sep 2021

SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen as a possible COVID-19 severity marker

French researchers used a highly sensitive and specific nucleocapsid-Ag assay to explore the relationship between N-Ag in urine during COVID-19 and the severity of the disease in hospitalized patients.

30 Sep 2021

Scientists offers new hope for future treatment of sepsis

Sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection affecting about 1.7 million adults in the United States each year, can lead to multisystem organ failure with a high mortality rate.

29 Sep 2021

Effect of biologic therapy on COVID-19 in children suffering from rheumatic diseases

A new study aimed to determine the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children suffering from rheumatic disease and were receiving bDMARD treatment.

29 Sep 2021

CDC issues urgent health advisory to increase COVID-19 vaccination among pregnant women

Today, CDC issued an urgent health advisory to increase COVID-19 vaccination among people who are pregnant, recently pregnant (including those who are lactating), who are trying to become pregnant now, or who might become pregnant in the future to prevent serious illness, deaths, and adverse pregnancy outcomes.

29 Sep 2021

Peripheral nerve injuries and severe COVID-19

An interesting new study discusses the occurrence of peripheral nerve injuries in a subset of patients who survived severe COVID-19.

29 Sep 2021

Nemours receives NIH grant to foster COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children in Black and Latino communities

Researchers at Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, as part of a public-private partnership, have received a National Institutes of Health grant supplement through the Delaware Clinical and Translational Research ACCEL Program to develop and test an approach to foster uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among children in Black and Latino communities.

27 Sep 2021

SARS-CoV-2 infection less severe in children and youth during first part of the pandemic

New research has found that children and youth may be at low risk of severe acute COVID-19, according to a study conducted during the first half of the pandemic and published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.210053.

27 Sep 2021

Intensive Care News and Research

Acute myocarditis extremely rare after COVID mRNA vaccination in adults

Neonatal outcomes of preterm infants born during COVID lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern more virulent than the native strain of the virus

New low-cost ventilator could address the shortage of ventilators in developing countries

Historic redlining associated with worse obstetric outcomes

Convalescent plasma is "futile" as COVID-19 treatment for critically ill patients, trial shows

SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity are strongly associated with nasal microbiota

The connection between age and virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of urbanites

SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antigen as a possible COVID-19 severity marker

Scientists offers new hope for future treatment of sepsis

Effect of biologic therapy on COVID-19 in children suffering from rheumatic diseases

CDC issues urgent health advisory to increase COVID-19 vaccination among pregnant women

Peripheral nerve injuries and severe COVID-19

Nemours receives NIH grant to foster COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children in Black and Latino communities

SARS-CoV-2 infection less severe in children and youth during first part of the pandemic

A review of drugs harmful in COVID-19

Study to determine the characteristics and outcome of patients hospitalized with COVID-19

Childhood asthma is not a risk factor for COVID-19

Diminished waveforms on EKGs of hospitalized patients can help predict worsening health, death

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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