NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (miAVR) seems to be associated with a lower risk of midterm mortality, while transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was associated with shorter hospitalizations and a lower risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in a meta-analysis of matched cohort studies. The authors highlight an "urgent need"…
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(Reuters) - The Biden administration will pledge $4 billion to a vaccination program for poorer countries at a global economic summit on Friday in hopes that other countries will follow suit and contribute additional funds, U.S. officials said on a Thursday press call. At a meeting of the Group of Seven nations, a summit for…
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Vaccinating all teachers against COVID-19 before schools reopen isn't doable, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Wednesday. "If you are going to say that every single teacher needs to be vaccinated before you…
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. NEW YORK (AP) — As states lift mask rules and ease restrictions on restaurants and other businesses because of falling case numbers, public health officials say authorities are overlooking potentially more dangerous COVID-19 variants that are quietly spreading through the U.S.…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study looking at how COVID-19 affects people with asthma provides reassurance that having the condition doesn't increase the risk of severe illness or death from the virus. George Institute for Global Health researchers in Australia analyzed data from 57 studies with an overall sample size of 587,280. Almost 350,000…
For pediatric patients with respiratory tract infections (RTIs), immediately prescribing antibiotics may do more harm than good, based on prospective data from 436 children treated by primary care pediatricians in Spain. In the largest trial of its kind to date, children who were immediately prescribed antibiotics showed no significant difference in symptom severity or duration…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As mental health professionals are grappling with a wave of pandemic-related anxiety and depression, a physician-researcher at The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences is studying whether a commonly prescribed antidepressant might actually fight the effects of the coronavirus itself. Better known by consumers under the brand name…
February 19, 2021 feature Scalable time representation of CA1 neurons in the temporal bisection task. (A) Schematic of the task (task 1). The rats ran on the treadmill for long or short intervals and then selected the left or right arm associated with water reward for long or short intervals, respectively. Sets of intervals were…