Hospital Medicine News

The FDA has authorized emergency use of baricitinib alone for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients aged 2 years and older who are hospitalized with COVID-19.

Monthly infusions of cytomegalovirus hyperimmune globulin for women with primary CMV infection during early pregnancy did not lower the incidence of congenital CMV infection or perinatal death in a trial that was stopped for futility.

Patients who were treated by female physicians had a lower in-hospital mortality rate than patients who were treated by male physicians, according to results of a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Sir Michael Houghton, who won a Nobel Prize last year for his part in discovering the hepatitis C virus, said during a presentation at the ECCMID virtual meeting recently that an HCV vaccine could be ready within 5 years.

Dozens more societies and organizations representing medical personnel have endorsed mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for health workers, according to a joint statement issued Monday.

High-tech toilets at a Japanese hospital may be harboring and spreading multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to a study.

Patients with opioid use disorder who were hospitalized for serious infections experienced higher odds of clinical cure and retention in addiction care when they were treated with a bundled intervention, according to a study.

A new report provides the first evidence that pan-resistant strains of Candida auris may have been transmitted in U.S. hospitals, researchers said.

Experts are learning about long COVID, a mysterious syndrome that the CDC describes as “new, returning, or ongoing health problems” that occur 4 or more weeks after a person is initially infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Provisional data from the CDC revealed a 1.5-year decline in life expectancy in the United States from 2019 to 2020.