Clinical symptoms
Zika virus and pregnancy
Guidelines for clinicians
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued guidelines for healthcare providers managing pregnant women at risk of exposure to the Zika virus during the current pandemic (Petersen et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016;65:30-33; free full text at http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6502e1). Read More
One person is dead and five others are hospitalized in a phase I trial that went badly wrong. Three of the survivors may have suffered irreversible brain damage, according to Dr. Gilles Edan, head of neurology at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, France, as quoted in the New York Times (Chanjan S. NY Times, Jan. 15, 2016). Preliminary MRI results showed cerebral hemorrhage and brain necrosis in some study participants. Read More
A number of recent studies have examined the impact of bullying during childhood and adolescence on the development of mental health issues later in life. Read More
Patients with Parkinson’s disease have a significantly elevated risk of acute myocardial infarction and cardiovascular death, according to a population-based longitudinal study (Liang et al. Am Heart J 2015;169:508-514). The analysis included 3,211 PD patients and 3,211 propensity score-matched subjects without PD. During the three-year follow-up, there were 83 fatal or non-fatal AMIs in the PD group compared to 53 in the non-PD group (hazard ratio 1.67). There were also significant differences in the PD versus non-PD groups for the combined endpoint of AMI or cardiovascular death (HR 1.46), and for AMI or all-cause mortality (HR 1.42). Read More