Jill Murphy, Assistant Editor

At the beginning of the study, participants completed a questionnaire about how often they took part in 5 types of mentally stimulating activities during middle-age, between the age of 50 and 65 years, or the age of 66 and older.

The partnership with VillageMD will open 500 to 700 “Village Medical at Walgreens” physician-led primary care clinics in more than 30 US markets in the next 5 years.

The study found that hospital nurses make fewer mistakes when administering medicines intravenously if they follow instructions written with nurses in mind.

Current guidelines for PPE in the general care of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in acute care facilities recommend gloves, an isolation gown, eye protection, and a medical mask or N95 respirator.

Kristin Hittle Gigli, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh led the discussion with the latest data on pediatric opioid mortality.

A statewide Indiana study shows that 47% of people are using technology to communicate with their health care providers, and less than a quarter are having conversations with their providers about using health information technology (HIT).

The findings include airway inflammation and rapid development of pulmonary edema, coronary artery aneurysms, and extensive intra-abdominal inflammatory changes, according to the study authors.

According to the FDA, patients should be selected based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic test.

The dipeptide used in the study is the only known amino acid to make the trip from a mouse’s stomach to its brain intact, according to the study authors.

The paper is an update to previous guidelines released by ACSM and the American Heart Association in 1998.

Studying blood samples from critically ill patients at the London Health Sciences Center (LHSC), the researchers identified a unique pattern of 6 molecules that could be used as therapeutic targets to treat the virus, as reported in the Critical Care Explorations journal.

Dravet syndrome is a life-threatening, rare, and chronic form of epilepsy and is often characterized by severe, unrelenting seizures despite medical treatment, according to the FDA press release.

Although researchers know that HIV enters the brain within 8 days of infection, less is known about whether HIV-infected brain cells can release the virus, letting it migrate from the brain back into the body to infect other tissues.

The NIA is currently funding more than 230 active clinical trials on AD and related dementias. Of those, more than 100 are nondrug interventions, such as exercise, diet, cognitive training, sleep, or combination therapies.

The objective of the study was to examine a large clinical dataset of LGSC through the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, with the primary goal of identifying factors that affect survival.

Researchers looked at the effects of a genetic risk score for developing T2D as an adult on metabolism, measured from blood samples taken from participants in the study when they were aged 8, 16, 18, and 25 years.

The dupilumab pen features a hidden needle and single-press auto-injection, along with visual and audio feedback to help with administration.

The researchers identified 87 articles using the PubMed and PsycINFO databases and the 2017 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) criteria for therapeutic trials.

Teprotumumabtrbw is the first drug to be approved for the treatment of TED.

The intent of the study was to bring awareness to the medical and nonmedical financial hardships of cancer and how they can impact the use of preventive services, since there is little research available to evaluate this topic, according to the study authors.

The study results show improvements at each stage in the HPV vaccination series.

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and automated monitoring, researchers and physicians at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have designed a method to help people with type 1 diabetes better manage their glucose levels.

The most common adverse reactions observed in the monarchE phase 3 trial include diarrhea, neutropenia, fatigue, infections, nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, anemia, alopecia, decreased appetite, and leukopenia.

The participants were categorized according to their vitamin K levels and heart disease. However, those with the lowest vitamin K levels had a 19% higher risk of death, compared with those whose vitamin K levels reflected adequate vitamin K intake.

The DPPOS is the long-term follow-up of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a multicenter trial conducted from 1996 to 2001 that established the success of either an intensive lifestyle program or treatment with metformin to prevent or delay the development of T2D in individuals who were considered at high risk for developing the disease.

Oral insulin (OI) slows insulin decline in those at high risk for type 1 diabetes (T1D), according to a poster session at the American Diabetes Association’s 80th virtual Scientific Sessions.

There have not been many evaluations of the prevalence of, and factors associated with, use of DSME/S and support programs in newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Louisiana, according to the study authors.

The slowed metabolic decline among the OI trial participants at highest risk was assessed and defined by the DPT1 Risk Scores over a 6.75 threshold.

Dolutegravir tablets are intended to treat pediatric patients at least 4 weeks old and at least 6 pounds who have never been treated for HIV or who have been treated, but not with an integrase strand transferase inhibitor class drug, according to the press release.

Although flu vaccines have been proven to reduce severe illness, evidence is lacking on the link between flu vaccination and antibiotic prescribing at the population level in the United States, according to the study authors.