Hospital Medicine

The overall serum anti-toxin A and B antibody levels were similar at baseline between immunocompromised hosts and non-immunocompromised hosts.

Florian Thomas, MD, and Adrian Hepner, MD, cover the basics of the degenerative nerve disorder.

Telemedicine could be useful if it is added to regimen of in-person health care visits.

Cases were identified by searching the Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse.

An expert ophthalmologist offers lessons and insights into the rare genetic eye disorder.

Currently, there are no glaucoma-specific instruments that estimate utilities across the spectrum of glaucoma severity.

Marc Bonaca, MD, discusses a new analysis of the VOYAGER PAD trial and implications for patients with diabetes and CLI.

Mortality rates differed significantly across the 3 clusters.

Only 5 patients treated with antibiotic prophylaxis developed bacteremia.

Younger age and individuals who work more than 41 hours per week were associated with more prevalent mental health symptoms.

Fluid regulation is important to the prevention of heart failure.

Overweight/obese patients with elevated fasting blood glucose generally present with higher degrees of insulin resistance, inflammation, adverse cardiovascular disease risk profile.

Data presented at ADA 2021 supports the noninferiority of faricimab to aflibercept.

The overall 90-day cumulative incidences of a first CDI episode was 1.9%.

Researchers found no difference between the risk of death or mechanical ventilation based on different IBD Treatments.

Epiretinal membrane and initial detachment of the macula are risk factors for post-operative CME.

Africa sees third wave as only 1% of the population is fully vaccinated.

Patients with chronic kidney disease reported poor quality of life, particularly in domains related to their condition.

Younger individuals and those with specific sickle cell genotypes led to earlier predictions for fetal risk of sickle cell disease.

The plan, developed in 2016, has resulted in reductions of most oral antibiotic uses, for both in-hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

There was no significant difference in performance between the model with only bile acids compared to models with bile acids and clinical variables.

California has administered more than 40 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Results from the PREVENT-19 trial show the vaccine yields a 90% efficacy rate against symptomatic disease.

Sustained virologic response following direct acting antiviral treatment substantially reduced the all-cause mortality rate in patients with HCV.

A systematic review of clinical trials notes that topical eye drops may lead to favorable retinal and visual outcomes, despite heterogeneity across multiple studies.