Patients with bronchiectasis on long term macrolide therapy were at low risk of developing macrolide-resistant Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease.
Researchers used population growth projections and current population-based cancer incidence and death rates to calculate the changes in incidences and deaths to 2040.
A team of investigators conducted a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial to identify factors related to the eradication of H pylori with dual vonoprazan and amoxicillin as first-line therapy.
Researchers assessed the effectiveness of electroacupuncture or auricular acupuncture vs usual care for chronic musculoskeletal pain in cancer survivors.
In this study, researchers explored the relationship between hot flash frequency and systemic immune activation as well as subclinical cardiac pathology among women with HIV.
Researchers used medical record data for women who delivered singleton infants to examine whether reclassification of hypertensive status using the ACC/AHA guideline definition better identifies women at risk for preeclampsia or eclampsia.
Researchers systematically reviewed literature to understand the performance and sensitivity of alternative sample types compared with that of nasopharyngeal swabs for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2.
Clinical Pain Advisor met with Scharles Konadu, MD, a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology Specialty Board, to discuss how deeply racial inequity is woven into our health care system.
Researchers analyzed data from patients with a recent diagnosis of IE hospitalized to see whether PCT, proADM, and copeptin have prognostic value in IE compared with CRP, a known biomarker for IE.
Researchers used a retrospective survey to associate sexual behavior during the Zika virus epidemic to better understand the disease burden of sexually transmitted Zika virus.
These 2 randomized, partly-masked studies aimed to address the emergence and spread of circulating vaccine-derived type 2 polioviruses and vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis from Sabin monovalent OPV2.
The objective of this quasi-experimental observational study was to measure the effect of states’ hospital worker influenza vaccination laws on pneumonia and influenza mortality.
In patients requiring mechanical ventilation for ARDS related to COVID-19, combining the lung ultrasound aeration score and the recruitment-to-inflation ratio can provide additional information on lung recruitment.