National Institutes Of Health

Patients with trochanteric hip fractures treated with a hip plating system had similar health-related quality of life outcomes and risk of revision as patients who were treated with a sliding hip screw, according to published results.

The NIH has closed enrollment to the fourth iteration of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial, indicating that neither treatment — baricitinib plus remdesivir or dexamethasone plus remdesivir — outperforms the other.

An expert panel told federal officials late Monday that AstraZeneca “may have included outdated information” in a press release announcing results from a trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, the NIH said.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutions to study using bacteriophage therapy to combat antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.

CV risk factors were associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and gestational diabetes, as well as hypertension 2 to 7 years after pregnancy, according to results of the nuMoM2b Heart Health Study.

Lifetime discrimination was associated with elevated risk for incident hypertension in Black adults, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Girls with higher total body fat are more likely to have menarche at a younger age and have slower breast development compared with those with normal total body fat, according to study data.

Last week, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, reported that cases of COVID-19 and new hospitalizations in the United States have continued to decline over the past few weeks. It was the top story in infectious disease.

The humidity created inside face masks may offer additional protection against COVID-19, according to NIH researchers.

American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy will present three awards during this year’s TCT Meetings Digital Experience.