Neurologic Events After COVID-19 Vaccines Assessed
All patients hospitalized with new or relapsing neurologic events after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination at a New York tertiary hospital had one or more risk factors for their neurologic condition, a prospective study showed. The most prominent neurologic index events in these vaccinated patients were ischemic stroke (37.7%), encephalopathy (32.6%), seizure (15.9%), and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH; 9.4%), […]
Obesity-Related Medication Use Remains Low After Bariatric Surgery
Fewer patients with obesity used lipid-lowering, cardiovascular, or antidiabetic drugs after bariatric surgery compared with matched patients who did not have surgery for morbid obesity, a population-based cohort study in Sweden and Finland found. Bariatric surgery patients had a lower probability of receiving a prescription for one of the three categories of medication in all […]
High-Quality Foster Care Protects Tots From Psychological Harms of Deprivation
SAN FRANCISCO — Placement into foster care after institutional care may help protect young children against the psychological harms of early severe deprivation, according to an analysis of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). In this randomized controlled trial, young Romanian children who were assigned to foster care had significantly better cognitive, physical, and neural […]
Insurance Loss After Pregnancy Tied to Less Postpartum Prescription Contraception
BALTIMORE — Women who lost insurance coverage shortly after pregnancy had lower odds of prescription contraception after giving birth than women with continuous insurance, survey data from nearly 250,000 people showed. Compared with continuous insurance, the likelihood of postpartum prescription contraception was 26% lower with loss of insurance 2 months or more after delivery (adjusted […]
FDA Relaxes Blood Donation Rules for Gay and Bisexual Men
After decades of rejecting or discouraging men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood for fear of HIV transmission, the FDA issued final guidance on Thursday relaxing donor eligibility rules. Under the new recommendations, the FDA scrapped time-based deferrals and screening questions targeting MSM and instead call for individual risk-based questions to be […]
Mysterious White Blood Cell Disorder Not Just ‘AIDS Without HIV’
Decades after its discovery, the emerging view of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) — popularly dubbed “AIDS without HIV” — is that it may be more homogeneous than originally thought, despite patients being prone to various cancers and opportunistic infections. In 91 individuals with this disorder of the immune system, the most common opportunistic infections contracted […]
Case Builds Against Beta-Blockers Beyond First Year After Heart Attack
The conventional wisdom of giving long-term beta-blockers for secondary prevention after myocardial infarction (MI), in the absence of another clinical indication, was questioned by a large cohort study from Sweden. For survivors who were still on beta-blocker therapy 1 year after heart attack hospitalization and had a normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction, the next […]
More Men Are Expressing Interest in Vasectomy After SCOTUS Abortion Decision
CHICAGO — Vasectomy consults more than doubled in the first 3 months after the Supreme Court decision overturning national abortion rights, according to data from one large health system. From June 24 — the day the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was announced — until Sept. 24, 2022, a total of 342 vasectomy […]
Hailey Bieber Feels ‘Grateful’ 1 Year After Heart Surgery
Hailey Bieber is feeling grateful one year after undergoing a procedure to mend a hole in her heart. The model, 26, reflected on her health Monday in an Instagram story, where she shared a throwback photo from the hospital as well as a quick update on her recovery. “This time last year I had a […]
Lose Weight, Gain Huge Debt: 300 Bariatric Surgery Patients Sued by Provider
Seven months after Lahavah Wallace’s weight loss operation, a New York bariatric surgery practice sued her, accusing her of “intentionally” failing to pay nearly $18,000 of her bill. Long Island Minimally Invasive Surgery, which does business as the New York Bariatric Group (NYBG), went on to accuse Wallace of “embezzlement,” alleging she kept insurance payments […]