Investigators evaluated the impact of interventions including infectious disease consultation, addiction consultation, case management, and medications for opioid use disorder on clinical cure and retention in addiction care for individuals experiencing homelessness.
There is “exponential growth” of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County as the Delta variant becomes the dominant strain, health officials there reported Thursday.
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients cared for in hospitals with the greatest surges in caseload have twofold greater mortality risk than patients in hospitals not experiencing surges.
No strong, high-quality evidence shows that many commonly performed elective orthopedic procedures are more effective than nonoperative alternatives.
Most state COVID-19 vaccination plans were created without advisement from a health equity committee.
The American College of Rheumatology Committee on Rheumatologic Care released an updated position statement on patient safety and site of service for biologics.
The researchers’ goal was to determine if mandatory daily employee symptom attestation data could be used for syndromic surveillance to estimate COVID-19 hospitalizations in the communities where employees live.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) from COVID-19 vaccines is not detectable in breast milk.
When schools open their doors this fall, teachers and students who are vaccinated can enter without masks.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced Thursday they would seek approval for a booster COVID-19 shot and begin studies on a reformulated vaccine that targets the highly contagious Delta variant.
