Amanda D'Ambrosio

While generally safer, being infected while outdoors isn’t impossible

Risk of neonatal seizures and death may be increased outside hospital settings

Pregnant patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had a lower risk of mortality than those who were not pregnant, a retrospective cohort study found.The mortality rate was less than 1% for pregnant women who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and viral pneumonia, as compared to 3.5% in the nonpregnant population, reported Beth Pineles, MD, PhD, of the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, and colleagues.The median time from hospital admission to death was 18 days in the pregnant cohort versus…

Heightened awareness, growing population, and climate change all play a role

After the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration spoke to White House officials last week, the scientific community immediately called into question the declaration as well as the scientists who wrote it.The declaration, a statement written by three public health experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, encourages governments to lift lockdown restrictions on young and healthy people while focusing protection measures on the elderly. This would allow COVID-19 to spread in a population whe…

But more women elected for expectant management methods, investigators found in randomized trial

Mortality rates among pregnant and recently pregnant women rose consistently in recent years, but increases were not primarily driven by obstetric complications, researchers found.While all-cause mortality rates among recently pregnant women increased from 44.4 to 53.9 per 100,000 live births from 2015 to 2019 -- for an annual percentage change (APC) of 4.4% -- deaths due to pregnancy-specific causes remained stagnant (APC -1.5, 95% CI -10.7 to 7.7, P=0.64), reported Jeffrey Howard, PhD, of…

Among pregnant people living with HIV, marijuana use climbed over the last decade both in pregnancy and during the postpartum period, according to results from a cohort study.Prevalence of marijuana use during pregnancy among people living with HIV increased from 7.1% in 2007 to 11.7% in 2019, reported Lynn Yee, MD, MPH, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues.During the postpartum period, marijuana use jumped from 10.2% to 23.7% in this population over the same ti…

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Similar outcomes whether patients received drugs in person or by mail, researchers found

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DO senior applicants see record-high match rate, on par with MD graduates

Record-breaking healthcare fraud settlement in eastern Washington

A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

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CVS Health, HCA Healthcare, and others saw blockbuster 2021 revenues

Shedding may be induced by COVID-related stress, but hair will grow back, experts say

Dolutegravir linked with better viral suppression versus other ART regimens

Stimulation outcomes may not explain racial disparities in IVF, researchers say

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