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Both messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States trigger immune responses in pregnant and nonpregnant women, including those who are lactating, researchers reported in JAMA.

The costs of COVID-19-related care that was provided to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries between April 2020 and December 2020 totaled $6.3 billion, according to researchers.

Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States who were surveyed said they would consider leaving their primary care physician for qualified physicians providing on-demand telehealth services.

Children infected with SARS-CoV-2 may not show typical symptoms such as fever, cough or dyspnea, according to a retrospective cohort study of more than 12,000 pediatric COVID-19 patients in the United States.

“Kangaroo mother care,” the practice of a caregiver participating in skin-to-skin contact with a newborn, was associated with a reduced risk for mortality in low-birth-weight infants at 28 days, a randomized controlled trial showed.

A small cohort of patients at a Tennessee hospital who met the criteria for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults experienced broader organ involvement and were less ill compared with patients in a previous report, researchers said.

The CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine safety group recently reviewed what it said were “relatively few reports” of myocarditis among young recipients of the messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis disproportionately affected non-Hispanic white patients, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week.

If physicians could see into the future, we could make more accurate, timely and precise clinical decisions in the present. We may not have a crystal ball yet, but with the advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, we are getting closer.

Around 10% of patients hospitalized for influenza and community-acquired pneumonia also had a community-onset bacterial coinfection, and these patients experienced worse outcomes and higher costs, according to a large U.S. study.