Largest study to date comparing mortality of different thyroid treatments among patients suffering with thyroid storm (Boston)—A thyroid storm is characterized by high-circulating thyroid hormones (severe hyperthyroidism) that leads to life-threatening acute end-organ damage, including neurologic dysfunction, cardiogenic shock, hepatic failure, cardiac arrhythmias, and high mortality. Current treatment guidelines recommend using the thyroid drug propylthiouracil […]
Results will provide the basis for future studies to investigate the essentiality of these differences to escape aging-related disease (Boston)—There are approximately 30 trillion cells in a human body and our health is predicated on them properly interacting with and supporting each other, with the immune system playing a particularly pivotal role. One of the […]
Discovery may lead to better therapeutics (Boston)—According to the World Health Organization, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria cause the largest number of recorded community-acquired cases of childhood diarrhea in the developing world and is the most common culprit in traveler’s diarrhea. While in healthy adults this is merely an unpleasant inconvenience, in infants and young […]
(Boston)—Sepsis occurs in approximately 1.7 million hospitalizations in the U.S. with in more than a third of hospitalizations resulting in death. Patients with septic shock benefit from steroid medications (corticosteroids) to reduce shock duration and potentially decrease the chance of dying. However, it is unclear if one of the two main frequently used steroid regimens […]
Group sessions at community organizations help participants cope with stigma, accept negativity and encourage healthy behavior and care engagement (Boston)—Stigma negatively impacts the health of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and those with HIV who inject drugs experience stigma on multiple levels. Stigma leads to impaired utilization and retention in addiction treatment, less access […]
(Boston)—Lung nodules are commonly found on diagnostic and screening computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest. Approximately five percent of individuals with lung nodules will ultimately receive diagnoses of lung cancer the leading cause of cancer death in men and women in the US and globally. Furthermore, lung cancer survival strongly depends on the stage […]
Intervention is effective in connecting at risk families with resources in the community (Boston)—Poverty and adverse social determinants of health, namely unmet social needs, have well established detrimental effects on the health and development of children and the health and well-being of their caregivers. While social risk screening is recommended by the American Academy of […]
New finding suggests that future therapies should target white matter loss in former contact sport athletes (Boston)—Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is not the only problem football players should be aware of. Long careers in American football are linked to less white matter in the brain and associated with problems with impulsive behavior and thinking according […]
New study raises awareness that pregnancy complications may be the first indication of an increased risk for heart disease (Boston)—Many pregnancy complications are associated with future heart disease. Such complications include gestational diabetes, preterm birth, fetal growth restriction and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and related disorders), and together they are referred to […]
New study provides an important contribution to the ongoing discussions about racism in medicine (Boston)— Algorithms that incorporate race as a modifying factor to guide clinical decision-making have recently been criticized for propagating racial bias in medicine. The calculation of lung or kidney function are examples of equations that have different diagnostic parameters depending on […]