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High speed air dryers not only leave more contamination on poorly washed hands compared to paper towels, but during hand drying, they can also spread germs onto clothing, ultimately transferring more bacteria to other surfaces, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology […]
Patients with inactive cancer and not currently undergoing treatments also face a significantly higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19, a new study from Penn Medicine published online today in JNCI Cancer Spectrum shows. Past reports have established an increased risk of severe disease and death for sick or hospitalized cancer patients with COVID-19 compared […]
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 — Individuals with frequent emergency department visits for alcohol-related reasons have a high mortality rate, according to a study published online Nov. 23 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Jennifer Hulme, M.D., M.P.H., from the University Health Network in Toronto, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using […]
MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 — COVID-19 patients with high blood pressure or diabetes may be more likely to develop critical neurological complications, including bleeding in the brain and stroke, according to an ongoing study. University of Pennsylvania researchers studied COVID-19 patients who had a head CT scan or MRI within their health system between January […]
Pfizer coronavirus vaccine volunteer details experience: ‘Get it as soon as you can’ Pfizer vaccine volunteer, Glenn Deshields, tells ‘Fox & Friends’ about his experience with the COVID-19 vaccine. Wisconsin health officials on Wednesday announced a new “critically high” category for coronavirus case activity amid an alarming surge in cases. Case activity combines case burden and […]
Five years of high-intensity interval training increased quality of life, improved fitness and might very well have extended the lives of participants in the Generation 100 study. “First of all, I have to say that exercise in general seems to be good for the health of the elderly. And our study results show that on […]
Adults with fatter legs—meaning they have a higher percentage of total body fat tissue in their legs—were less likely than those with a lower percentage to have high blood pressure, according to new research to be presented Sept. 10-13, 2020, at the virtual American Heart Association’s Hypertension 2020 Scientific Sessions. “Ultimately, what we noted in […]
Loss of smell and taste has been anecdotally linked to COVID-19 infections. In a study published April 12, 2020 in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, researchers at UC San Diego Health report the first empirical findings that strongly associate sensory loss with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “Based […]
(HealthDay)—Polymer-based zotarolimus-eluting stents are noninferior to polymer-free drug-coated stents among patients at high bleeding risk undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to a study published online Feb. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Stephan Windecker, M.D., from Bern University Hospital in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted a randomized, single-blind trial to compare polymer-based zotarolimus-eluting […]
Patients with colorectal cancer have a greater chance of survival if they are operated in hospitals with a high case load. This is because complications that can occur after surgery can be better managed there. tumors of the colon, so-called colorectal carcinomas, are the second to third most frequent tumors in women and men in […]