Emerging Diseases News

Nearly half of patients who received a diagnosis code of “unspecified mycosis” had positive laboratory test results for a specific fungal disease, with the most common being invasive candidiasis, researchers found.

NEW ORLEANS — The first U.S. study to examine the link between COVID-19 vaccination and risk for major adverse cardiac events found that vaccination was protective against such events in patients with COVID-19.

Distress levels among veterans were greater at 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic, but decreased at 2 years to pre-pandemic levels, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

The regulations and reimbursement structures surrounding telehealth that were loosened during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have begun to tighten again, and could have significant implications in rheumatology.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Although omicron variants appear generally less severe and more manageable than previous SARS-CoV-2 strains, patients with rheumatologic conditions should remain vigilant, according to a presenter.

A combination therapy of IV doxycycline and azithromycin was more effective for the treatment of severe scrub typhus than using either drug alone, according to findings published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz — The study of COVID-19 may in turn improve the understanding of immunology by demonstrating that the immune system is “highly alive,” said a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

Urban families, Black and multiracial children and families with low socioeconomic status faced the highest rates of pediatric care disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found.

SAN ANTONIO — Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, or PAI-1, may serve as a biological marker for severe COVID-19, according to data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

Black and Hispanic individuals were more likely to experience long COVID-related symptoms and health problems compared with white individuals, according to a new study.