Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy?
A father worries that his favorite children’s books promise his daughter a vibrant natural world that will no longer exist.
COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in people with rheumatic diseases
Arani Vivekanantham and colleagues investigated the association between RA and the risk of COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalization with COVID-19,and COVID-19-related death. This population-based cohort study including all individuals registered in the Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP)- which covers over80% of the population of Catalonia, Spain. This information was linked to region-wide SARS-CoV-2 testing,…
Two U of M Medical School studies provide new evidence to battle drug price increases
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (06/18/2021) — Two recent studies led by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School add new evidence to the impact of how drug price increases affect U.S. patients and the overall cost of health care. The first study, published today in the JAMA Network Open, provides new data on how dramatic increases…
The true spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection is much greater than that observed by capturing only swab-diagnosed COVID-19 cases
As part of the MAINSTREAM project, Favalli and colleagues conducted a seroprevalence cross-sectional study between 4th May and 16th June 2020toestimate the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in a large cohort of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or spondyloarthritis (SpA) treated with biologic or targeted synthetic disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) in a COVID-19 high-endemic…
Researchers find losartan is not effective in reducing hospitalization from mild COVID-19
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (06/18/2021) — University of Minnesota Medical School researchers determined that the common blood pressure medication, losartan, is not effective in reducing hospitalization for mildly-ill COVID-19 outpatients. In the multicenter, randomized, double-blinded clinical trial, non-hospitalized patients recently diagnosed with COVID-19 were given either losartan or a placebo and monitored for 15 days. The study’s…
Team describes science-based hiccups intervention
IMAGE: The Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool, shown here, is designed to stop hiccups on one or two attempts. It was developed at The University of Texas Health Science Center… view more Credit: Figure courtesy of JAMA Network Open SAN ANTONIO (June 18, 2021) — Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at…
Overcoming a newly recognized form of resistance to modern prostate cancer drugs
IMAGE: Neuroendocrine prostate cancer cells. view more Credit: Dr. Aaron Udager, Michigan Medicine Cancer cells have an uncanny ability to evolve and adapt to overcome the treatments used against them. While patient survival has been extended by modern drugs that block the production or action of male hormones that fuel prostate cancer — androgen receptor inhibitors…
Will reduction in tau protein protect against Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementias?
IMAGE: Laura Volpicelli-Daley view more Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Will a reduction in tau protein in brain neurons protect against Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementias? A new study, published in the journal eNeuro, suggests the answer is no. If this is borne out, that result differs from Alzheimer’s disease, where reducing endogenous tau levels…
The end of Darwin’s nightmare at Lake Victoria?
Lake Victoria, which came under the spotlight in 2004 by the documentary “Darwin’s nightmare”, is not only suffering from the introduction and commercialisation of the Nile perch. A study lead researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) has highlighted other worrying phenomena, particularly climatic ones, which have an equally important impact on the quality of…
Study: Men doing more family caregiving could lower their risk of suicide
Colorado State University Professor of Psychology Silvia Sara Canetto has spent many years researching patterns and meanings of suicide by culture, trying to make sense of the variability in women’s and men’s suicide mortality around the world. Suicide rates are generally higher in men than in women, but not everywhere – which suggests cultural influences.…