Latest News Releases 14 September

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered changes in the brain, triggered byLSD, that may explain the profound altered behavior associated with LSD, helping to understand how the brain generates behavior.

What The Study Did: This analysis of survey data examined changes between 2001 and 2018 in the concentration of health care spending in different population groups and categories such as prescription drugs in the United States.

What The Study Did: Researchers document the antibody response to a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) vaccine in a group of 117 allogeneic hematopoietic (from a donor) stem cell transplant recipients.

What The Study Did: In this single-center study in Libreville, Gabon, from March to June 2020 of 837 patients with COVID-19, 63% had no symptoms. Severity of disease and death were associated with advanced age and advanced stage of lung damage.

Reducing naturally occurring errors in protein synthesis (production) improves both health and lifespan, finds a new study in simple model organisms led by researchers at UCL and MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that all sexually active women 24 or younger and women 25 or older at increased risk for infection be screened for chlamydia and gonorrhea. The USPSTF concludes current evidence is insufficient to make a recommendation about screening for these infections in men. Chlamydia and gonorrhea are among the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States, with approximately 1.8 million cases of chlamydia and more than 600,000 cases of gonorrhea reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019. The USPSTF routinely makes recommendations about the effectiveness of preventive care services and this updated statement is consistent with its 2014 recommendation.