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Some patients with rheumatic heart disease who are thought to have an allergic response to injectable penicillin may actually be experiencing a cardiac reaction to the injection, a new AHA advisory explains. …

In an email to employees, Carhartt CEO Mark Valade said the Supreme Court ruling 'does not change Carhartt's mandatory vaccination program, which went into effect on January 4.' …

"My hope is that it's going to be within the next month or so and not much later than that, but I can't guarantee that because I can't out-guess the FDA," Fauci said. …

A new study from California and New York found that people who were both vaccinated and had a prior COVID-19 infection had the most protection against the coronavirus last summer and fall. …

A European expert discusses the different strengths and weaknesses of RT-PCR and rapid antigen COVID-19 tests and explains why the products are difficult to compare. …

We asked. You answered. Here's how our readers feel about the pandemic. Like is it almost over? …

Last week, patient care was dependent on "overtime, team nursing and other mitigation steps" that were "not sustainable." …

'The threat is in no way over, but the news is good in terms of the direction that it’s turning,' said Dr Allison Arwady, Chicago's Public Health Commissioner. …

Emergency health workers blasted hours-long waits to transfer patients from ambulances to hospital ERs in what they said were chronic delays worsened by the nearly 2-year coronavirus pandemic. …

'To see such racial differences play out in acute care is striking,' said one of the authors of a national, cross-sectional study involving more than 1000 patients across 91 hospitals. …

This document reports the first interim pooled estimates from the ECDC study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE).

The residents said the USPS website gave them error messages saying tests had already been ordered for their address. …

WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, MPH, speaks with Eric Topol, MD, Executive Vice President, Scripps Research and Editor-in-Chief, Medscape, about the status of our fight against COVID-19 as we hit the 2-year mark of the pandemic. …

'It, unfortunately, is going to get worse before it gets better.' …

Antallet af nye covid-19-tilfælde steg med 35% fra uge 1 til 2, og antallet af nye indlæggelser steg med 16%. En stigende andel må dog forventes at være indlagt med og ikke på grund af covid-19. Til gengæld er antallet af intensivt indlagte faldet fra 74 til 52.

Researchers take the largest look to date on the impact of bacterial antimicrobial resistance, including most affected agents and regions of the world. …

Personer, der er smittet med omikronvarianten, har en 36% mindre risiko for at blive indlagt end dem, der er smittet med deltavarianten. Det viser en ny analyse, som SSI har lavet sammen med en lang række samarbejdspartnere.

Maps in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to travel measures in the EU…

Maps in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to travel measures in the EU…

Maps in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to travel measures in the EU…

Combined indicator: 14-day notification rate, testing rate and test positivity, updated 20 January 2022 (colour-blind friendly)…

Maps in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to travel measures in the EU…

Experts hope for a better summer and envision an endemic status ahead where health systems will include COVID-19 as part of the yearly respiratory burden. …

In the scramble to tackle the virus in real time, entrenched scientific and medical processes were challenged, sometimes leading to mixed results. …

Based in lack of trust that is often fanned by politicians, the media, and others, misinformation has not only caused arguments but arguably has also cost many lives. …

Over the past 2 years, Americans have made many changes to how they live, work, play, worship ― and manage their health. Many experts think some of these changes are here to stay. …

'Benefit finding' is a skill among some of the more resilient people whose lives have been upended by COVID-19, and experts explain how it can help others. …

Better treatment for Candida auris, Aspergillus and other dangerous fungal pathogens is slow to come, even as rates of drug resistance rise. New therapies are in the pipeline, and hospital practices can help. …

Most children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 infection show recovery of cardiac function by 3 months. …

'We respect the court’s ruling and will comply,' Starbucks Chief Operating Officer John Culver wrote in a company memo. Starbucks employs 228,000 people in the US. …

"Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends." …

The news offers hope for other countries that their Omicron surges may soon be over. That said, hospitalizations and deaths didn't increase as much in South Africa as they have elsewhere. …

WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Adelaide Robb, MD, Division Chief, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Hospital, about addressing the growing mental health crisis among children and adolescents. …

Over the 3-week stretch from December 17 to January 13, weekly cases increased by 394%. …

The plan is a response to growing pressure from public health experts to encourage Americans to stop using cloth masks that don’t work as well against the Omicron variant. …

A PLOS journal has issued an expression of concern for a 2018 paper which claimed that ivermectin could be useful as a way to control dengue fever. …

Given the similarities between symptoms of influenza and COVID-19, distinguishing between the two diseases when both are spreading in the community is challenging. …

Telling insurance companies to pay for rapid COVID-19 tests is just the latest COVID-related cost the federal government expects them to bear. But who really ends up paying for it? …

A health official has been put on administrative leave as state officials investigate whether he tried to compel employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in violation of state law. …

Youngkin's order said parents of any child in elementary or secondary schools or a school-based early childcare or educational program "may elect for their children not to be subject to any mask mandate." …

Some schools have gone virtual to begin the semester. Critics of virtual learning have charged that universities have ignored science and are enforcing COVID-19 policies that are unfair to students. …

A new study shows that the performance of COVID tests in children falls below standards for diagnostic accuracy set by regulatory agencies in the US and elsewhere. …

The problems were more likely if the infection occurred 28 days or less before the delivery date, the researchers said. …

It's much too early to say if the Omicron variant signals the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, MD, said. …

A study reinforces a link between appendicoliths and appendectomies after antibiotics, but its author said there's a surprising lack of connection for other factors that tilt patients toward surgery. …

Der er indtil videre beskrevet 3 subvarianter af omikron: BA.1, BA.2 og BA.3. På verdensplan udgør BA.1 langt de fleste tilfælde. I Danmark vinder BA.2 dog frem på bekostning af BA.1.

Data fra covid-19-indlagte viser at en stigende andel af indlæggelserne sker blandt patienter med med omikron. I uge 1 var ca. 86% af alle nyindlagte smittet med omikron, hvorimod andelen med omikron blandt nyindlagte på intensiv kun var ca. 43%.

Treatment of uncomplicated pediatric community-acquired pneumonia with a short, 5-day course of antibiotics results in a superior clinical response compared to the standard 10-day course. …

Use of medications to manage cardiovascular disease risk factors significantly decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and has not returned to prepandemic levels, a new study shows. …

A fourth shot of the COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies but doesn't provide enough protection to prevent infections from the Omicron variant, according to new research at an Israeli hospital. …