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By Nancy Walsh. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of both COVID-19 and hospitalization and death. Compared with patients without RA, and after adjusting for demographics, comorbidities, healthcare utilization, and local incidence rates, patients with RA had a 25% higher risk of […]

Carolyn Crist Federal guidelines on indoor mask use may soon change, said Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday. He was asked if it's time to start relaxing indoor mask requirements. "I think so, and I think probably we will."

Killian Meara A recent study published in the journal Chronic Respiratory Disease has found that exercise can improve lingering symptoms of COVID-19, including respiratory symptoms, fatigue, and cognitive problems. The research was conducted by researchers at the Leicester Biomedical Research Centre of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), which is a collaboration

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the B.1.617 variant, first identified in India, has been reclassified as a variant of global concern. "We are classifying it as a variant of global concern," the WHO said at a briefing, citing available information that suggests increased transmissibility.

It's been a while since there was a major milestone in the development of an effective HIV vaccine. Last year, a large-scale trial of a promising HIV vaccine candidate was halted after the vaccine failed. But with the extraordinary success we're seeing with vaccines

By Matías A. Loewy. Herd immunity, also known as collective immunity, became a kind of holy grail of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the light at the end of the tunnel that, thanks to vaccination, will allow us to return to normal as we knew it. However, experts say there are misconceptions that should be clarified.

By Medical Staff: People with HIV are not at greater risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but they are at greater risk of severe illness due to the higher frequency of comorbidities associated with a poor prognosis for COVID-19. This is the warning issued in the latest update of the technical document on the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection in different groups of people, which

This was a demand from specialists around the world who have maintained for months that it is the most important route of contagion. The transmission of the coronavirus through aerosols, small droplets that we emit simply by breathing and that can remain floating in the air, was clearly incorporated by the Organization

By Carolyn Crist. Pregnant women who developed COVID-19 last year were 20 times more likely to die than those who did not contract the virus, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Of the mothers who tested positive, about 11.5% of their newborns also contracted the virus and were more likely to be born prematurely. “The main

From: https://espanol.medscape.com/verarticulo/5906943 By Roxana Tabakman The life expectancy of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Latin America is almost comparable to that of those without the virus, according to a retrospective analysis of 30,000 participants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru. “It is a collaborative study among 7 countries