Infectious Diseases
From the Journals
Infant’s COVID-19–related myocardial injury reversed
Children hospitalized for COVID-19 should be tested for heart failure based on a case report of an infant with COVID-19 and reversible myocardial...
From the Journals
Obesity, hypoxia predict severity in children with COVID-19
Race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status were not significant predictors of serious illness.
Feature
CMS launches hospital-at-home program to free up hospital capacity
The agency will be giving more flexibility to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to provide hospital-level care.
Feature
Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages
More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.
From the Journals
Prophylactic HIV treatment in female STI patients is rare
Female patients with STIs are more likely to contract HIV, regardless of insurance status.
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA expands Xofluza indication to include postexposure flu prophylaxis
From the Journals
Rationale for baricitinib’s use in COVID-19 patients demonstrated
“We went from modeling and mechanistic investigations to clinical tests in a number of settings and laboratory analysis in record time,” Dr....
From the Journals
Combo DAA treatments may benefit patients with resistant HCV genotype 3
A variety of combo drug treatments proved effective in treating HCV genotype 3 to achieve sustained virologic response.
From the Journals
Antidepressant shows early promise for mild COVID-19
The findings on fluvoxamine “need to be interpreted as hypothesis generating rather than as a demonstration of efficacy,” the study authors wrote...
Conference Coverage
Pronounced racial differences in HBsAg loss after stopping nucleos(t)ide
Patients of White background had a nearly sixfold higher chance for functional cure of hepatitis B infection.
Commentary
Vanquishing hepatitis C: A remarkable success story