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Outcomes Of People Hospitalized With COVID-19 Not Affected By Blood Pressure Medications, Study Shows

HealthDay (1/11) reports, “Blood pressure drugs do not affect outcomes of people hospitalized with COVID-19, a new study finds.” The “researchers looked at whether two types of medications used to treat high blood pressure – ACE inhibitors or angiotensin...

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Hospitals Throughout US Overwhelmed By Patients With COVID-19

Kaiser Health News (1/11, West) reports patients with COVID-19 “are overwhelming hospitals, squeezing space and staff needed to treat emergencies.” Although “it has happened in pockets throughout the country since the spring, the pressure on hospitals is...

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Some Healthcare Workers Reportedly Hesitant To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Bloomberg (1/11, Young) reports, “In North Carolina and Ohio, most nursing-home employees are declining the Covid-19 vaccine.” Now, “the federal government, which left the states to sort out immunizations, is suggesting pizza parties and raffle prizes as...

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FDA Warns That B117 Variant Of SARS-CoV-2 Can Cause False Negatives On Some Molecular Tests

Reuters (1/8, Chander) reported the FDA warned that some variants of SARS-CoV-2, including B117, “could lead to false negative results from some molecular” diagnostic tests. However, the agency added that “the risk of the mutations affecting overall testi...

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Glucose Test Values May Not Be Significant Predictors Of Risk Of Developing Diabetes After Gestational Diabetes, Systematic Review Indicates

Healio (1/8, Monostra) reported research indicates that “high fasting blood glucose and two-hour oral glucose tolerance test values are not significantly associated with an increased risk for developing diabetes after gestational diabetes,” investigators...

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Study Clarifies Prognostic Value Of Routine Thyroid Testing Among Hospitalized Patients With STEMI

Endocrinology Advisor (1/8, Biscaldi) reported, “Routine thyroid function testing among hospitalized patients with ST segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) can identify previously unknown subclinical hypothyroidism and provide a prognostic marker...

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Race/Ethnicity Do Not Influence Distress And Uncertainty Experienced By People Who Undergo Multigene Testing To Evaluate Hereditary Cancer Susceptibility, Study Indicates

Oncology Nurse Advisor (1/8, Moench) reported researchers conducted “a survey-based study” and found “race/ethnicity did not influence the levels of distress and uncertainty experienced by persons undergoing multigene testing to evaluate for hereditary ca...

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CDC Says There Is No Evidence That A Homegrown Variant Of SARS-CoV-2 Is Fueling The Recent Surge

CNN (1/8, Fox) reports there is no evidence that “a homegrown variant of coronavirus” is “fueling the recent increased spread of the virus” in the US, according to the CDC. A CDC spokesman said, “Based on scientific understanding of viruses, it is highly...

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Persistent Poor Health Following COVID-19 Does Not Appear To Be Tied With Severity Of Initial Infection, Study Indicates

Healio (1/8, T. Welsh) reported researchers found “persistent poor health following COVID-19 does not appear to be associated with severity of initial infection.” The findings were published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

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Researchers Say Myocarditis Is Rarer In Athletes Who Recover From COVID-19 Than Previously Suggested

Cardiovascular Business (1/8, Walter) reports researchers “evaluated 59 athletes from Vanderbilt University who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and then fully recovered” and found “myocarditis is more rare in athletes who have recovered from COVID-19 tha...

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Hospital Discharge Planners Under Pressure As Hospital Beds Fill Up With Patients With COVID

The Los Angeles Times (1/10, Mejia) reports on the dilemma facing hospital discharge planners as hospitals fill up with patients with COVID. These workers are trying “to free up beds in dangerously full hospitals confronting a deluge of” patients with COV...

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US Communities Overwhelmed With COVID-19 Ask Residents To Conduct Their Own Contact Tracing

Kaiser Health News (1/8, Dahlberg) reported, “The contact tracers of Washtenaw County in Michigan have been deluged with work and, to cope, the overburdened health department has a new tactic: It is asking residents who test positive for covid-19 to do th...

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Funding Extended Until April For Virus Testing In At-Risk Areas

Bloomberg (1/7, Lee, Court) reports that a $550 million funding extension “announced Thursday means thousands of Covid-19 testing sites in vulnerable U.S. areas will continue to operate into April.” The program “primarily provides testing sites in areas w...

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Genetic Markers Related To Mineral Bone Accrual Could Help Providers Identify Young People At Risk For Fractures Later In Life, Study Indicates

Health IT Analytics (1/7, Kent) reports researchers found “genetic markers related to mineral bone accrual could help providers identify younger patients at risk of fractures in later life.” The findings were published in Genome Biology.

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Researchers Develop Faster Method Of Measuring Rate At Which Alpha-Synuclein Protein Forms Toxic Clumps

Parkinson’s News Today (1/7, Figueiredo) reports investigators “have developed a faster method of measuring the rate at which alpha-synuclein protein forms toxic clumps that reliably distinguishes people with Parkinson’s disease from those without the con...

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Identical Twins Found To Have Genetic Mutations That Distinguish Them From Each Other

The AP (1/7, Larson) reports researchers sequenced the DNA of 387 pairs of identical twins in Iceland and discovered “early mutations that separate identical twins,” meaning “identical twins are not exactly genetically the same.” The findings were publish...

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CDC Model Suggests That Asymptomatic People Transmit The Majority Of New Coronavirus Cases

The Washington Post (1/7, Guarino) reports, “People with no symptoms transmit more than half of all cases of the novel coronavirus, according to a model developed by” CDC researchers. According to the model, 59% of transmissions come from asymptomatic peo...

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Researchers Observe Decline Of IgA And IgM After COVID-19 In Healthcare Workers

Infectious Disease Advisor (1/7, Nye) reports researchers found in a cross-sectional study that “a decline of immunoglobulin (Ig)A and IgM after [SARS-CoV-2 infection] was seen in healthcare workers in Spain.” The findings were published in The Journal of...

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More States Confirm Cases Of B117 Variant Of SARS-CoV-2

CIDRAP (1/7, Soucheray) reports Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Texas “became the latest states to confirm cases of B117” on Thursday. B117 is “a variant strain of the novel coronavirus that began widely circulating in the United Kingdom at the end of last...

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Scientists Identify Mutation That Might Make Coronavirus Vaccines Less Effective

STAT (1/7, Joseph) reports scientists have identified a mutation, known as E484K, in a coronavirus variant found in South Africa and another variant found in Brazil that “changes a part of the virus that...antibodies get trained to recognize after” infect...

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Outcomes Of People Hospitalized With COVID-19 Not Affected By Blood Pressure Medications, Study Shows

Hospitals Throughout US Overwhelmed By Patients With COVID-19

Some Healthcare Workers Reportedly Hesitant To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

FDA Warns That B117 Variant Of SARS-CoV-2 Can Cause False Negatives On Some Molecular Tests

Glucose Test Values May Not Be Significant Predictors Of Risk Of Developing Diabetes After Gestational Diabetes, Systematic Review Indicates

Study Clarifies Prognostic Value Of Routine Thyroid Testing Among Hospitalized Patients With STEMI

Race/Ethnicity Do Not Influence Distress And Uncertainty Experienced By People Who Undergo Multigene Testing To Evaluate Hereditary Cancer Susceptibility, Study Indicates

CDC Says There Is No Evidence That A Homegrown Variant Of SARS-CoV-2 Is Fueling The Recent Surge

Persistent Poor Health Following COVID-19 Does Not Appear To Be Tied With Severity Of Initial Infection, Study Indicates

Researchers Say Myocarditis Is Rarer In Athletes Who Recover From COVID-19 Than Previously Suggested

Hospital Discharge Planners Under Pressure As Hospital Beds Fill Up With Patients With COVID

US Communities Overwhelmed With COVID-19 Ask Residents To Conduct Their Own Contact Tracing

Funding Extended Until April For Virus Testing In At-Risk Areas

Genetic Markers Related To Mineral Bone Accrual Could Help Providers Identify Young People At Risk For Fractures Later In Life, Study Indicates

Researchers Develop Faster Method Of Measuring Rate At Which Alpha-Synuclein Protein Forms Toxic Clumps

Identical Twins Found To Have Genetic Mutations That Distinguish Them From Each Other

CDC Model Suggests That Asymptomatic People Transmit The Majority Of New Coronavirus Cases

Researchers Observe Decline Of IgA And IgM After COVID-19 In Healthcare Workers

More States Confirm Cases Of B117 Variant Of SARS-CoV-2

Scientists Identify Mutation That Might Make Coronavirus Vaccines Less Effective