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Beyond COVID, Other Key Research Breakthroughs Occurred in 2021
American Heart Association highlights progress on diabetes treatment, stroke prevention, and anti-clotting medication.
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Pandemic Emergency Funds Spiked Healthcare Spending
Data show eye-popping healthcare expenditure growth for 2020, driven by federal paycheck protection, provider assistance, vaccine development, and virus testing.
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Federal Vaccine Mandates May Be Bound for the Supreme Court
The legal battle over COVID-19 vaccine mandates in healthcare continues, as federal judges have granted injunctions blocking the federal requirement. With similar challenges hindering the federal mandate for businesses with at least 100 employees, it is increasingly looking like these controversial attempts to stop the pandemic are headed to the highest court in the land.
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Too Many HCWs Not Vaccinated for COVID-19
Even as a federal mandate to vaccinate healthcare workers against COVID-19 is facing court challenges, a new analysis revealed immunization of medical personnel stalled in fall 2021 and only now may be improving incrementally.
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Will Omicron Variant Overtake Delta? Probably
Although early findings suggest that the omicron variant is a milder form of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the severity of illness — particularly in different populations by age and underlying conditions — is still an unknown.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Candida auris Outbreak in Southern California; Healthcare Worker Vaccine Mandates
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Infections Before Age 20 Years Increase the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
The relationship between childhood infections and the risk of multiple sclerosis is supported by mounting evidence. Using the Swedish Total Population Register, researchers found patients diagnosed with infection in adolescence showed a higher risk of multiple sclerosis, even after exclusion of infectious mononucleosis, pneumonia, and central nervous system infection.
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Screening and Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in the United States
Chagas disease is an important public health problem in the United States. An expert panel has made a series of specific recommendations for screening for and diagnosis of Chagas disease in at-risk groups.
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Omicron Variant: A Superspreader with Low Severity?
While the emerging omicron variant of COVID-19 is “blowing through” previously infected and vaccinated people in South Africa, preliminary evidence indicates the highly mutated virus will cause less severe disease.
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Treatment of Severe Plasmodium falciparum Malaria with Intravenous Artesunate
A prospective nationwide study in France found intravenous artesunate use was rapidly adopted by clinicians and was safe and highly effective in the treatment of severe malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum.