A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, shows an association between decreased survival at five years and leaving an atrial communication at biventricular repair of unbalanced AVSD after adjusting for other known risk factors. During repair of atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD), surgeons may leave an atrial…
Plant-derived compound isorhamnetin may have antiviral potential against SARS-CoV-2
The lack of new or repurposed drugs to treat patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been one of the biggest hurdles to reducing mortality rates in the ongoing pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A new study, published online in the…
Unhealthy lifestyles mediate only a small proportion of health inequity in UK and US adults
Unhealthy lifestyles alone only explain a small proportion of the socioeconomic inequity in health in both US and UK adults, suggest data from two large studies published by The BMJ today. The findings show that the poorest individuals with the least healthy lifestyle are 2.7 to 3.5 times more at…
Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder have accelerated cellular aging
Cells from individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) were found to have higher than expected rates of methylation at specific sites on their DNA, when compared to cells from healthy individuals without MDD, according to a study by a multidisciplinary team of UC San Francisco scientists, in collaboration with others….
Progesterone therapy may improve clinical outcomes for male COVID-19 patients
COVID-19 disproportionately affects men compared with women, raising the possibility that a hormone like progesterone may improve clinical outcomes for certain hospitalized men with the disease. New research from Cedars-Sinai published online in the journal Chest supports this hypothesis. The pilot clinical trial, involving 40 men, is believed to be…
Older and non-White people less likely to be captured by mobility data used in response to COVID-19
Information on individuals' mobility–where they go as measured by their smartphones–has been used widely in devising and evaluating ways to respond to COVID-19, including how to target public health resources. Yet little attention has been paid to how reliable these data are and what sorts of demographic bias they possess….
Study assesses causes of higher COVID-mortality among men
Researchers in the United States, Germany and Uganda have conducted a study showing that the factors responsible for a higher rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality among males are specific to COVID-19 rather than related to men’s shorter life expectancy. Pascal Geldsetzer from Stanford University in California and colleagues…
New calculators could enable clinicians to better stratify risk in COVID-infected patients
Two novel calculators for predicting which patients admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 are at greatest risk of requiring mechanical ventilation or of in-hospital death have been developed and validated by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In a study published in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine, researchers describe how these models could enable…
Anticancer drug may reduce mortality and speed up recovery for severe COVID-19 patients
Treating severe COVID-19 patients with the anticancer drug bevacizumab may reduce mortality and speed up recovery, according to a small clinical study in Italy and China that was led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden between February and April 2020. On average, blood oxygen levels, body temperature and inflammatory…
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NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. SEROQUEL XR® Quetiapine fumarate Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some of the common questions people ask about SEROQUEL XR. It does not contain all the available information. It does not take…
Suicide Mortality Up for Blacks During Closure Period of COVID-19
THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 2020 — In Maryland, suicide mortality increased among Blacks and decreased among Whites during the progressive closure period of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Psychiatry. Michael Johnathan Charles Bray, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore,…