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HealthDay 08 January at 11.36 PM

Acute Hospital Care at Home Shows Promise for Medically Complex Patients

A diverse group of medically complex patients receive acute hospital care at home (AHCaH), with low rates of mortality during hospitalization and at 30 days, according to a research letter published online Jan. 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.David M. Levine, M.D., M.P.H., from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

HealthDay 08 January at 11.36 PM

Acute Hospital Care at Home Shows Promise for Medically Complex Patients

A diverse group of medically complex patients receive acute hospital care at home (AHCaH), with low rates of mortality during hospitalization and at 30 days, according to a research letter published online Jan. 9 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.David M. Levine, M.D., M.P.H., from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

HealthDay 03 January at 04.36 PM

Incidence of Pediatric UTI Decreased in Early Pandemic Period

The incidence of pediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) decreased during the early prepandemic period, with no increase in disease severity, according to a study published online Jan. 3 in JAMA Network Open.Danni Liang, M.D., from the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues examined the populat

HealthDay 02 January at 04.28 PM

Improvement Needed in Managing UTI in Patients With Neurogenic Bladder

Expansion of caregiver involvement, enhancement of patient-provider communication, and targeting providers and care settings that lack familiarity with neurogenic bladder (NB) could improve urinary tract infection (UTI) management in this population, according to a study published online Nov. 1 in PLOS ONE.Margaret A. Fitzpatrick, M.D.,

HealthDay 26 December at 05.01 PM

Five-Day Antibiotic Course Noninferior for Pediatric Febrile UTI

For young children with febrile urinary tract infection (fUTI), a five-day amoxicillin-clavulanate course is noninferior to a 10-day course for recurrence of UTI within 30 days after completion of therapy, according to a study published online Dec. 26 in Pediatrics.Giovanni Montini, M.D., from Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milano, I

HealthDay 05 December at 11.00 PM

Five Health Conditions Linked to Subsequent Diagnosis of MS

Five health conditions are associated with subsequent diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, but they overlap with two other autoimmune diseases, according to a study published online Dec. 5 in Neurology.Octave Guinebretiere, from Sorbonne Université in Paris, and colleagues examined the association between diseases and symptoms diagnosed in

HealthDay 04 December at 04.41 PM

Bladder Function Disorders Common in Refractory Nocturnal Enuresis

Children with refractory monosymptomatic (MNE) and nonmonosymptomatic (NMNE) primary nocturnal enuresis have considerable prevalence of bladder function disorders, according to a study published in the October issue of Health Science Reports.Farzaneh Sharifiaghdas, from the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran,

HealthDay 07 November at 11.50 PM

FDA Approves Voquezna for Erosive Esophagitis, GERD

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Voquezna (vonoprazan), a novel potassium-competitive acid blocker, as a new treatment for adults for with all grades of erosive esophagitis or erosive gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).The approval is based on the results of the PHALCON-EE phase 3 trial, in which Voquezna 20 mg met the prim

HealthDay 03 November at 03.39 PM

Pediatric Neurogenic Bladder Cases Are Not Fully Evaluated

Pediatric neurogenic bladder (NGB) cases are not fully evaluated in routine clinical practice, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in Advances in Therapy.Naoko Izumi, from Pfizer Japan in Tokyo, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study involving patients aged 17 years and younger with NGB to examine the current sta