Article of the Week #35
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has been a common calculation for healthcare providers to understand a patient’s kidney function. However, providers are agreeing one of the factors used in calculating for GFR leads to poorer estimates. Check out this link to learn more! Contact medgrphx@gmail.com
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Article of the Week #34
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo was postponed to the 2021 Summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. Swipe to learn more about Japan’s safety precautions for the athletes and people of Tokyo during the Olympic Games! Check out this link to learn more! Contact medgrphx@gmail.com
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Article of the Week #33
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has overwhelmed the clinical need for ventilators and artificial lungs, resulting in a critical shortage of available devices and endangering patients’ lives worldwide. Due to the proven safety of perfluorochemicals in clinics, Enteral ventilation via anus (EVA) potentially provides an adjunctive means of oxygenation for patients under respiratory distress conditions. Both intra-rectal…
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Article of the Week #32
Monoclonal antibodies were expected to be very helpful in limiting severe COVID-19 until vaccines can be approved. However, nanobodies are cheaper to produce than standard monoclonal antibodies. In addition, their small size and long, heavy-chain complementarity-determining regions enable them to target concave epitopes such as the receptor-binding site of the spike protein. The available structural…
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Article of the Week #31
It is still unclear whether COVID-19 vaccines, specifically those using mRNA, are safe for pregnant persons. Swipe to learn about the results after gathering data from a total of 35,691 v-safe participants 16 to 54 years of age who identified as pregnant. Check this link to learn more! Contact medgrphx@gmail.com
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Article of the Week #30
“Emergency Intubation in COVID-19” is intended for health care personnel involved in performing emergency endotracheal intubation in patients with suspected or proven infection with SARS-CoV-2, which causes the respiratory illness COVID-19. Check out this link to learn more! Contact medgrphx@gmail.com
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Article of the Week #29
A few rare cases of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), known in common speech as “blood clots”, have been observed as a side effect of adenovirus vector vaccines, such as the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Researchers studied three patients with VITT: two had limb-artery thrombosis while the third had cerebral venous and arterial thrombosis. Read our summary…
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Article of the Week #28
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin studied a set of antibodies that targeted the spike protein. Their findings are noteworthy because they suggest that the effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 stems from obtaining mutations that evade the most successful antibodies. Read our summary to look at the key statistics from the study! To learn more…
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Article of the Week #27
This study examined mask-wearing policies and adherence by state between April and September 2020 to measure their impact on COVID-19 rates in the subsequent month (May to October 2020). Results suggest that mask wearing could be a key factor in reducing the spread of COVID-19. The association between high mask adherence and reduced COVID-19 rates…
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Article of the Week #26
This month, the FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents aged 12-15 years old. The vaccine was already approved for people aged 16+ in December 2020. Read our summary of Pfizer and BioNTech’s trial results of their vaccine on adolescents! To learn more about this, check out this article from Pfizer.…
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