This case-control study of children who played and did not play video games examined whether video gaming had a beneficial or detrimental association with cognitive abilities. | Continue reading
This randomized clinical trial compares the efficacy of ivermectin vs placebo in shortening symptom duration among adult outpatients in the US with symptomatic mild to moderate COVID-19. | Continue reading
This cohort study investigates the presence of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA in the expressed breast milk of lactating individuals who received the vaccination within 6 months after delivery. | Continue reading
This cohort study examines data from a pharmacoepidemiologic database of US medical claims for patients who filled a folic acid prescription to investigate an association with risk of suicide attempt. | Continue reading
This cohort study of electronic health care data of more than 8 million individuals in England attempts to quantify the neuropsychiatric sequelae following discharge from COVID-19 hospitalization compared with patients surviving hospitalization due to non–COVID-19 severe acute re … | Continue reading
This cohort study estimates the proportion of persons who became reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 during the Omicron wave in Iceland. | Continue reading
This nonrandomized clinical trial evaluates the association between molecular senescence markers and treatment remission in older adults with depression. | Continue reading
The most prominent modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the US changed during the past decade, with midlife obesity overtaking physical inactivity at the top of the list. | Continue reading
This diagnostic/prognostic study uses machine learning to quantify and compare the expression of structural magnetic resonance imaging patterns of behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer disease, and schizophrenia. | Continue reading
This randomized clinical trial examines the effects of graded sensorimotor retraining, compared with an attention control with sham procedure, in patients with moderate to severe chronic low back pain. | Continue reading
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines studies that used validated measures to document changes in child and adolescent physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic and estimate how changes differed between potential moderators. | Continue reading
This modeling study of US adults vaccinated against COVID-19 estimates the number of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths prevented by the US COVID-19 vaccination program. | Continue reading
This nonrandomized controlled trial compares the effectiveness of elastomeric half-mask respirators with that of N95 filtering facepiece respirators during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. | Continue reading
This Medical News feature examines the unexpected phenomenon of symptoms and positive test results recurring in Paxlovid users who’d a few days earlier felt fine and tested negative. | Continue reading
Context Epidemiologic data demonstrate that moderate alcohol intake is associatedwith improved insulin sensitivity in nondiabetic individuals. No controlled-dietstudies have addressed the effects of daily moderate alcohol consumption onfasting insulin and glucose concentrations a … | Continue reading
In this narrative medicine essay, a palliative care physician struggles with her role as physician and as daughter during her elderly parents’ final days. | Continue reading
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines data from published prospective studies of adults to gauge the dose-response association between physical activity and incident depression. | Continue reading
This cohort study conducted using nationwide registers assesses the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis after SARS-CoV-2 messenger RNA vaccinations in a combined population of 23.1 million individuals across Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. | Continue reading
This Viewpoint argues that evidence shows that transient ischemic attacks are neither benign nor transient and should be retired as a neurological diagnostic term in favor of acute ischemic cerebrovascular syndrome. | Continue reading
This cohort study evaluates the association of COVID-19 infection with olfactory bulb by performing an ultrastructural and histopathological analysis of patients with COVID-19 and age- and disease severity–compatible controls. | Continue reading
This article describes the experiences of a first-year oncology fellow’s experience as he treats his first patient. | Continue reading
This cohort study quantifies the levels of secondhand cannabis smoke from social bong smoking in a home environment. | Continue reading
This Medical News article discusses a large study that found brain structure and cognitive changes months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. | Continue reading
People who thought they’d been infected with SARS-CoV-2 had more persistent symptoms than those whose infections were confirmed by antibody testing in a recent study. | Continue reading
This cross-sectional study of US adults examines associations of gut microbial measures with the results of several cognition tests. | Continue reading
This Viewpoint discusses how differing political priorities and economic circumstances across the 50 US states has led to the country’s fragmented health policy, widening the gap across the states in health outcomes and life expectancy. | Continue reading
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the association between absolute reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels with treatment with statin therapy and all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke. | Continue reading
This randomized clinical trial assesses the efficacy of ivermectin treatment in preventing progression to severe disease among high-risk patients with COVID-19 in Malaysia. | Continue reading
This case-control study uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Increasing Community Access to Testing platform to estimate the association between receipt of 3 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 or Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine, compared with 2 doses or unvaccin … | Continue reading
This randomized clinical trial examines the energy intake, energy expenditure, and body weight in adults who slept less than 6.5 hours per night. | Continue reading
This study uses serologic testing to characterize natural immunity and the long-term durability of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among unvaccinated US adults by history of COVID-19 infection. | Continue reading
This cohort study evaluates the risk of self-harm and overdose among adolescents and young adults during vs before the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
This cross-sectional study of individuals from the French CONSTANCES cohort assesses whether the belief in having been infected with SARS-CoV-2, having serological test–confirmed COVID-19 infection, or both are associated with persistent physical symptoms often attributed to long … | Continue reading
This cross-sectional study reviews findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study on digital media use by US youths during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
This cohort study examines the association between neighborhood food environment and risk of type 2 diabetes across different community types in the Veterans Administration Diabetes Risk (VADR) cohort. | Continue reading
This cohort study assesses the association of hospital-diagnosed infectious mononucleosis in childhood and adolescence with risk of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in young adults using national population registers in Sweden. | Continue reading
This cross-sectional study examines rates of cognitive impairment among patients who survived COVID-19 and whether the care setting was associated with cognitive impairment rates. | Continue reading
This cohort study examines the incidence and clinical outcomes of acute myocarditis among adults following mRNA vaccination in an integrated health care system in the US. | Continue reading
This study reports an interim analysis of safety surveillance data of 23 serious outcomes following vaccination with 1 of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines based on comprehensive health records from a large US population. | Continue reading
This survey study investigates the differences in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy by race/ethnicity among health care workers at 2 large academic hospitals. | Continue reading
This study compared body mass index of youngsters during the COVID-19 pandemic to the same time in 2019 to determine whether they experienced pandemic-related weight gain. | Continue reading
This cohort study evaluates the association between the timing of exposure to and severity of COVID-19 disease in close contacts of index patients with COVID-19. | Continue reading
This Viewpoint discusses the need for scientific transparency when biomedical innovation takes place outside of the peer-reviewed literature. | Continue reading
This cross-sectional study examines the mask-wearing behavior of attendees at the 2021 NCAA men’s basketball tournament in an attempt to help other venues prepare for future events during the pandemic. | Continue reading
This cohort study evaluates COVID-19 severity and factors associated with severity over time and assesses the use of machine learning to predict clinical severity. | Continue reading