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Male sex, obesity among risk factors for severe COVID-19 in children

20 May 2022 by

A large study by the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) has identified factors associated with the risk of severe disease among children with SARS-CoV-2 infection as well as factors tied to an increased risk of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) as compared to acute COVID-19.

20 May 2022

Investigational drug gains upper hand over placebo in reducing CDI recurrence rates

20 May 2022 by

SER-109, an investigational oral microbiome therapeutic, achieves superiority over placebo in reducing recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) rates, according to updated findings from the phase III ECOSPOR-III trial.

20 May 2022

Multi-day not better than single-day antibiotic at preventing UTI after BTX shot

20 May 2022

Prophylactic antibiotic works to prevent the development of urinary tract infection (UTI) following intravesical OnabotulinumtoxinA (BTX) injection, with a multiple-day regimen being as effective as a single-day regimen, according to a study.

20 May 2022

COVID boosters: Where from here?

19 May 2022 by

Having a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine (ie, second booster dose) substantially protects against severe illness in face of the Omicron variant, compared with only three doses of vaccine that were given more than 4 months earlier, according to data from the Israeli Ministry of Health database.

19 May 2022

B infantis EVC001 cuts necrotizing enterocolitis, mortality in VLBW infants

18 May 2022

Probiotics with the EVC001 strain of the Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis, as a supplement to human milk, appears to significantly reduce the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and associated deaths in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, a recent study has found.

18 May 2022

Working out can protect cancer survivors against COVID-19

16 May 2022

For patients with a history of cancer, exercising appears to lower the risk of contracting COVID-19 infection, according to a study.

16 May 2022

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy persists in pregnant women despite recommendations

16 May 2022 by

Acceptance rates of COVID-19 vaccines have remained unchanged among unvaccinated pregnant women following national recommendations, with nearly one-third of patients seeing the vaccine as something harmful to their pregnancy, according to a study.