Hospital Medicine News

Researchers found that decontaminating N95 respirators using vaporized hydrogen peroxide provided a “viable means” to reuse the masks without compromising their effectiveness.

Five people died from rabies in the United States last year, including three in just a 6-week span from Sept. 28 to Nov. 10 — a “sobering reminder,” one expert said, of the risk still posed by one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

Healio’s coverage during 2021 demonstrates the influence that climate change and pollution have on health and wellbeing.

Throughout 2021, Healio has covered research concerning the short- and long-term health effects caused by a lack of diversity in clinical trials and disparities in health care overall.

According to the Pan American Health Organization, 36% of deaths among men are preventable compared with 19% of deaths among women.

Although COVID-19 remained a popular topic among Healio Primary Care readers in 2021, other stories that discussed diabetes screening and physician suicide also generated significant attention.

In updated guidance, the CDC said that asymptomatic people with COVID-19 can isolate for 5 days instead of 10, followed by 5 days of wearing a mask around other people.

An early 3-day course of remdesivir lowered the risk for hospitalization or death among nonhospitalized patients at high risk for severe COVID-19 by 87%, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put an enormous strain on health care workers and exacerbated existing burnout and staffing shortages. Many workers have reported considering leaving the profession altogether.

As of Dec. 1, the FDA had approved 46 novel drugs this year, one fewer than it had approved by the same date in 2020.