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Procalcitonin Levels in Identifying Bacterial Infections in Children with and without COVID-19

Elevated procalcitonin levels have been associated with bacterial infection in children. Observational studies reported high procalcitonin values in COVID-19. Data on bacterial coinfections in pediatric COVID-19 is sparse; small studies ...

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Healthcare Workers to Patients: Please Be Nice

As we come up on the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, nerves are fraying, stress levels are rising, and frustration is mounting everywhere. Healthcare workers say they often bear the brunt of people's anger, especially as ...

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Exploring Medicine Through Sex and Gender Lens

The impact a patient’s sex can have on disease has come into sharp focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the number of confirmed cases is about the same for males and females, men have been dying at significantly higher rates than ...

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How IBD Patients Respond to COVID-19 Vaccines

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who received the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson produced significantly lower levels of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus than those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna ...

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COVID-19: Rare Immune Reaction in Children

Although most children who are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, experience mild symptoms, a very few develop a hyperinflammatory syndrome due to a specific reaction by their immune systems, according to a recent ...

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Despite Pandemic, 2020 Brought Increase in Heart Transplants

Cardiothoracic Surgeons at the Smidt Heart Institute Performed 128 Adult Heart Transplants in 2020, More Than Any Other Center in the Nation.

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Post-ICU Clinic Supports COVID-19 Patients After ICU Stay

For many patients, the road to recovery from critical illness does not end with discharge from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)—that is often just the beginning. Patients who have COVID-19 or another critical illness that results in an ICU ...

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Cardiac Side Effects Found in 2 COVID-19 Drugs

About 12% of nearly 100 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (coronavirus) developed a cardiac abnormality after receiving hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin—two drugs currently being administered to some coronavirus patients worldwide—according ...

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COVID-19 Study: Men Need the Most Hospital Care

Male patients hospitalized for COVID-19 (coronavirus) are more than twice as likely to need intensive care and three times as likely to need intubation compared with female patients, according to new research from Cedars-Sinai.