May 27th, 2022 - Mark Gudesblatt, MD Multiple sclerosis (MS) remains a complex disease with varied effects, some visible and clinically symptomatic and others invisible (eg, effects on cognition). However much we focus on the visible and uncovering the currently invisible effects, we must be aware of the effects of prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 (ie, post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, aka long COVID) in people with.

May 27th, 2022 - Key clinical point: Patients with KRAS p. G12C-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) show poor treatment outcomes, which are numerically worse than those in patients without this mutation or with KRAS non-p.

May 27th, 2022 - (Reuters) - Fully vaccinated individuals who get infected with the coronavirus spread the infection to fewer people and are contagious for less time compared to people who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, a small study from South Korea suggests. In 173 hospital workers with COVID-19, including 50 who had breakthrough infections, researchers found that the virus had been transmitted to ...

May 27th, 2022 - (Reuters) - In people with lasting breathlessness after COVID-19, a special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals lung abnormalities that traditional imaging techniques do not detect, a small study shows. In 23 patients with shortness of breath lasting for months after COVID-19, including 11 who had not required hospitalization, the researchers performed hyperpolarized xenon 129MRI, ...

May 27th, 2022 - Mothers with previous subfertility have increased risk for postpartum mental illness, compared with mothers who conceived spontaneously, according to a new study. In a population-based cohort study that examined almost 800,000 births, the adjusted relative risk (RR) for postpartum mental illness was 1.14 in women with subfertility, compared with women without reproductive assistance. The magnit...

May 27th, 2022 - New medications such as emicizumab (Hemlibra) are transforming the lives of patients with hemophilia A, and more treatments are in the pipeline. "It's an amazing time to be a hemophilia provider," Alice D. Ma, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hematologist and bleeding disorder specialist, said in an interview. "There are real options, and it's very exciting." But the drugs come w...

May 27th, 2022 - SAN DIEGO – Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) led to sustained weight loss and a reduction of cardiometabolic syndrome comorbidities at 5 years, according to a new retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. Dr Donevan Westerveld Improved cardiometabolic outcomes following bariatric surgery have been well documented, but ESG is relatively new, so its outcomes haven't been as well...

May 27th, 2022 - Learning that a family member has cancer can be devastating enough. Waiting to find out whether a loved one can afford their treatment takes the concern to another level. That was the case for health policy expert Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD, when her mother was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. "There is this period where you are waiting to learn more about the cancer type and treatment op...

May 27th, 2022 - SAN DIEGO – Treatments to eradicate Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections do increase the antibiotic resistance of the gut microbiota, but for only a few months, researchers reported at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW). The finding applies similarly to levofloxacin quadruple therapy and bismuth quadruple therapy, both of which are equally efficacious as second-line treatments, said Jyh-Ming L...

May 27th, 2022 - Eosinophilic GI diseases (EGIDs) often overlap with other eosinophil-associated diseases (EADs), which leads to greater health care costs, according to an analysis of the U.S. Optum Clinformatics claims database. EADs have gained increased attention in recent years. They include eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), eosinophilic asthma, bullous pemphigoid, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiiti...

May 27th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new system for allocating liver allografts in the United States, implemented in 2020, has been associated with procurement-related delays but has had no adverse impact on early transplant outcomes, a new study shows. To assess the effect of Liver Acuity Circle Allocation (AC), researchers compared data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) o...

May 27th, 2022 - Wide disparities exist in diabetes-related emergency department (ED) use between racial and ethnic groups, rural and urban patients, and Medicare and Medicaid-insured adults versus those who were privately insured between 2008 and 2017, a serial cross-sectional study indicates. All-cause ED visits increased by over 50% during the same period even though substantial health reforms were made duri...

May 27th, 2022 - Self-management of gout using a smartphone app to record self-test urate levels and flares, and communicate those results to clinicians, could see more patients reaching target urate levels and even reducing flare frequency, a study has found. Writing in The Lancet Rheumatology, Philip Riches, PhD, of the rheumatic disease unit at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, and coauthors presented t...

May 27th, 2022 - Roughly 3% of adults in the general population of The Netherlands have microalbuminuria or macroalbuminuria, and in nearly two thirds of this subgroup — roughly 2% of the general population — kidney disease had previously gone unidentified, based on screening results in a study of about 15,000 adults. "This is the first study to prospectively investigate population screening for albuminuria," s...

May 27th, 2022 - The mRNA vaccines are powerful in terms of preventing severe disease with COVID-19 across populations because of the multifaceted immune response they generate, a redundancy that can help among patients on agents which cause immunocompromise. Although antibodies from the vaccines will wane over time, or these antibodies can be less effective against new variants like Omicron, the vaccines do no...

May 27th, 2022 - Researchers who analyzed language related to depression on social media during the pandemic say the data suggest people learned to cope as the waves wore on. University of Alberta researcher Alona Fyshe and her collaborators at the University of Western Ontario hypothesized that depression-related language would spike during each wave of COVID-19. But their study shows that wasn’t the case. “Th...

May 27th, 2022 - A previously unknown subtype of hormone-resistant prostate cancer accounts for about 30% of all cases, according to a new study from a team of scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Weill Cornell Medicine, published May 27, 2022, in the journal Science. The results could pave the way for targeted therapies for people with this subtype of prostate cancer. Prior to this re...

May 27th, 2022 - Research drawing on the national Overcoming COVID-19 study, led by Boston Children’s Hospital, and the hospital’s own Taking On COVID-19 Together Group provides evidence that children who previously had COVID-19 (or the inflammatory condition MIS-C) are not protected against the newer Omicron variant. Vaccination, however, does afford protection, the study found. The findings, published in Natu...

May 27th, 2022 - Chromosomes undergo precise structural changes at a molecular level during the different phases of cell division. These changes occur at a high level of accuracy to prevent genome instability. Genome instability resulting from broken, missing, or rearranged chromosomes has been found to be the root cause of cell death, carcinogenesis, and congenital disorders. Studying genomic instability helps...

May 27th, 2022 - A study by Brazilian scientists points to the probable biological mechanism that modulates the accumulation of mutant mitochondrial DNA in cells during aging, especially in the liver. The mechanism is called autophagy, a process of cellular cleansing that destroys organelles, including mitochondria, and recycles their components. The findings resolve a paradigm in the field and raise a hypothes...