Hospital Medicine News

CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, issued a statement late Thursday night endorsing her vaccine advisory committee’s recommendations — made earlier in the day — on which Americans should be eligible for COVID-19 booster shots.

A WHO guideline panel has updated recommendations for monoclonal antibody treatment in its “living” guide on drugs for COVID-19. The guidelines are published in The BMJ.

Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD, is an internationally renowned "Guru of Mechanical Ventilation and Neuromuscular Disease." He is also a fearless leader in the ICU. In this episode, he shares his journey into medicine and how he developed the “10 commandments” of fellowship research.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients responded well to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a single-center study, with 83% having an antibody response after two doses, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Critically ill patients who required mechanical ventilation and received the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG were as likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia as those who received placebo, a randomized clinical trial showed.

The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, voted 16-2 on Friday afternoon not to recommend a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine to Americans aged 16 years and older.

In the largest comparative randomized trial of monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19, two regimens — bamlanivimab/etesevimab and casirivimab/imdevimab — were safe and appeared to be equally effective, according to a press release.

The NIH has allocated nearly $470 million to fund large-scale national studies of long COVID that it said could involve tens of thousands of patients.

President Joe Biden announced a six-pronged plan last week to combat a national rise in COVID-19 cases brought on by the delta variant.

Patients who received follow-up care at a specialized clinic following AKI had a lower risk for rehospitalization than patients who received usual care, investigators from the University of Kentucky Medical Center found.