COVID-19
New-onset inflammatory diseases ‘may be triggered’ by COVID-19 infection, vaccination
Certain new-onset inflammatory rheumatic diseases, including polymyalgia rheumatica and vasculitis, may be triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination against COVID-19, according to data published in RMD Open.
FDA approves Veklury as first antiviral COVID-19 treatment for all liver disease stages
The FDA expanded its approval of Gilead Sciences’ antiviral, Veklury, for the treatment of COVID-19 in patients with mild, moderate and severe hepatic impairment, without requiring dose adjustments, according to a manufacturer release.
COVID-19 lockdowns may have caused myopic shift in children
Mandatory online schooling and confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated myopia in school-aged children in Puerto Rico, according to a review published in Optometry and Vision Science.
Top in ID: Nose-picking linked to SARS-CoV-2; experts say HIV PrEP should be available OTC
Health care workers who picked their nose were three times as likely to acquire SARS-CoV-2 as those who did not, according to recent study results.
New-onset hypertension more common after COVID-19 than after influenza
The incidence of new-onset persistent hypertension is greater in patients with COVID-19 than in those with influenza, researchers reported in Hypertension.
Moderna, Pfizer say updated COVID-19 vaccines protect against EG.5
Moderna this week said preliminary clinical trial data confirmed that its updated COVID-19 vaccine provides a “significant boost” in neutralizing antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 viruses and is expected to effectively target them.
Once-daily schizophrenia treatment falls short of endpoints in two phase 3 trials
Two phase 3 studies of a once-daily treatment for schizophrenia failed to meet their primary endpoints, with developers pointing to placebo effects and disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic to possibly explain the drug’s performance.
Study of health workers links nose-picking to SARS-CoV-2 infection
Health care workers who pick their nose were around three times more likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 than those who did not, a small study conducted at two hospitals in the Netherlands found.
Clinicians should consider masking during elevated respiratory viral activity, experts say
Experts said clinicians should consider masking during periods of elevated respiratory viral activity after a study linked pandemic prevention measures to decreases in nosocomial COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses.
EG.5 emerges as dominant variant amid summer wave of COVID-19
The EG.5 omicron subvariant has emerged as the predominant SARS-CoV-2 virus during a summer wave of COVID-19 in the Unted States, accounting for 17.3% of cases, according to CDC tracking.