Fauci on Lab Leak; Murder Charge for Respiratory Therapist; Extra SNAP Benefits End Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Mar 01, 2023
FDA Panel Backs Pfizer's RSV Vaccine for Older Adults But panelists raise multiple concerns over phase III trial data Feb 28, 2023
Biologics for Asthma: Who Gets Them and Who Uses Them? Single-center study finds sluggish prescriptions, but patient-level barriers are also at work Feb 28, 2023
FDA Flags Potential Guillain-Barre Risk With RSV Vaccine Candidates Both vaccines demonstrated high efficacy against symptomatic illness in large phase III trials Feb 27, 2023
Docs Push Ivermectin for Flu; Woody's SNL Intro; Energy Dept. Backs Lab Leak Theory Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Feb 27, 2023
Higher Dose of Ivermectin, and for Longer, Still No Help Against COVID Losing streak continues for controversial antiparasitic Feb 23, 2023
Sutezolid With 3-Drug Combo Appears Safe and Effective in Multidrug-Resistant TB Sutezolid may be a replacement for linezolid in these patients, researcher says Feb 21, 2023
TB Treatment Strategy Has Potential to Drastically Slash Therapy Duration 8-week regimen, with more for persistent cases, yields similar outcomes to 6-month standard Feb 21, 2023
RSV Vaccine Succeeds in Phase III Trial of Older Adults Here's what it could mean in practice Feb 20, 2023
Monoclonal Antibodies Linked to Reduced RSV Burden in Young Kids Meta-analysis of 14 RCTs showed significant reductions in infection, hospitalization Feb 17, 2023
Chest CTs Reveal Abnormalities 2 Years After Severe COVID 39% of hospitalized Wuhan patients had persistent interstitial lung abnormalities, study finds Feb 15, 2023
It's Time to Pay Clinical Trial Participants More Accelerating trial enrollment can catalyze access to much-needed medications Feb 09, 2023
AI Tool Forecasts Lung Cancer Risk From a Single CT Scan Experts give high marks to performance of "Sybil" in predicting disease over 6 years Feb 07, 2023
Risk Model-Based Lung Cancer Screening More Cost-Effective Than USPSTF Recs Risk prediction models more sensitive than age-, smoking history-based methods Feb 07, 2023
Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Do At-Home Testing Devices Measure Up? Home test showed 52 apnea-hypopnea events per hour in woman with high blood pressure, weight gain Feb 06, 2023
Long COVID's 7 Symptoms; Most of U.S. Backs Tobacco Ban; Ugly People and Face Masks Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Feb 03, 2023
Bispecific Antibody Active in Relapsed/Refractory Small Cell Lung Cancer A majority of patients obtained disease control with tarlatamab; responses proved durable Feb 01, 2023
Immunotherapy Survival Gains 'Less Impressive' in Older Lung Cancer Patients Study finds median OS improvement of just 1 month for patients 75 and older Jan 26, 2023
Unmet Medical Needs Common After ICU Care Study points to "stark mismatch" in care before discharge and after Jan 25, 2023
Pediatric Respiratory Failure No Better Off With Early High-Flow Oxygen Randomized trial only applies to toddlers without COVID-19, though Jan 24, 2023
Fasting Before Respiratory Extubation Not Needed, Study Says Randomized trial suggests this common practice doesn't help Jan 23, 2023
DeSantis Pushes Permanent Bans; Moderna RSV Vax Effective; Top Stroke Expert Dies Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Jan 18, 2023
Intranasal Saline May Suffice for Some Kids' Sleep-Disordered Breathing Recommendations for surgery halved after 6 weeks of mometasone furoate or saline Jan 17, 2023
Why Is a Fit Swimmer Breathless and Coughing Up Blood? Case highlights a little-known, potentially dangerous, often recurrent condition of swimmers Jan 17, 2023
FDA Approves Novel Dual Rescue Inhaler for Asthma in Adults First-in-class Airsupra combines inhaled corticosteroid and short-acting beta2 agonist Jan 11, 2023
Are Severe COVID Patients Being Kept on Ventilation Longer Than Needed? Mechanical ventilation use should follow guidelines for any other pneumonia, say researchers Jan 11, 2023
Use of Acid-Suppressive Medications in Infants May Lead to Allergic Diseases However, no meaningful associations were seen with prenatal exposure Jan 10, 2023
Conspiracy Theorists' Cancer Beliefs; HIV Meds and Ethnicity Also in TTHealthWatch: sodium levels and health outcomes Jan 07, 2023 podcast
Weakened Diaphragm May Contribute to Long COVID Dyspnea Study suggests potential for a therapeutic intervention Jan 06, 2023
COVID's Lasting Consequences for Kids Allergist Zachary Rubin, MD, details the post-COVID symptoms presenting at his clinic Dec 27, 2022 video
Black Patients Less Likely to Get Advanced Treatments for PE Also less likely for patients on Medicare and Medicaid Dec 12, 2022
Xeljanz Cancer Risks Detailed New paper provides full results from ORAL Surveillance trial Dec 07, 2022
Not Just a Miner's Problem: Workplace Fumes, Dust Tied to RA Swedish study expands range of airborne toxics associated with rheumatic disease Dec 06, 2022
Do We Still Need to Quarantine With COVID? While COVID still distinguishes itself from other illnesses, those days may be numbered Dec 02, 2022
Which Respiratory Virus Do I Have? There's a range of possibilities, and it's not easy to tell them apart Dec 01, 2022
Monks and Meth; China Says Jogger Caused COVID Outbreak; Flu Deaths Close to 3,000 Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Nov 30, 2022
Our Pediatric 'Immunity Debt' Is Really an 'RSV Debt' The virus is now collecting what it is owed Nov 29, 2022
Lung Cancer Survival High for Patients With Early, Screen-Detected Tumors Two decades of I-ELCAP follow-up data show 80% lung cancer-specific survival rate Nov 28, 2022
As He Steps Down, Fauci Urges Everyone to Get Flu, COVID Vaccines Asked about his legacy, he says he's "never left anything on the field" Nov 22, 2022