COVID-19

A healthy 7-year-old girl is sent to the school nurse by her teacher, who was concerned about the girl scratching her scalp and seeing white material in her hair.

The overall incidence rate of abortions reimbursed through commercial insurance decreased 14% during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic despite eased regulations, and it did not return to pre-pandemic levels, a recent study found.

Treatment with convalescent plasma reduced 28-day mortality among adults undergoing mechanical ventilation for COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome, according to results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

An analysis of online conversations among health care professionals on social media during September revealed mixed reactions toward newly updated messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines.

A study of 40 patients recently published in Cureus suggested that SARS-CoV-2 may be transmissible via ocular routes.

A new study links some neurocognitive symptoms of long COVID to persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in the gut, which triggers a series of reactions that lowers serotonin levels.

In a cohort of individuals with MS, a diagnosis of COVID-19 was linked to an increased risk of disability progression compared with those without, according to a presentation from ECTRIMS 2023.

In this edition, FDA issues complete response letter for relabotulinumtoxinA; mucocutaneous manifestations may signal COVID-induced inflammatory disease in children and more.

People infected with COVID-19 have a higher risk of cardiovascular/cerebrovascular complications. However, researchers found that these risks can be reduced with vaccination and boosting.

COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a reduced likelihood of long COVID among children infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the omicron wave, according to study findings presented at IDWeek.