Fever was the most common clinical characteristic among 17 coronavirus patients with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a recent study conducted in New York City found.
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Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital performed a double lung transplant on an adult patient with COVID-19 last week, according to The New York Times.
A national panel of health experts is for the first time recommending that clinicians screen all adults for unhealthy drug use.
If hospitals are able to lower the number of emergency room patients by just 10 percent, it could significantly lower patients' risk of death, a study published in the Journal of Health Economics found.
Obesity was the most prevalent underlying condition for children who were hospitalized after contracting the new coronavirus, a new study shows.
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Most COVID-19 patients treated with blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients show improvement, a new small study shows.
COVID-19 patients getting surgery may face several risks, including postoperative lung complications seen in about half of the patients in a new international study.
Researchers have identified three biomarkers that can be measured in the blood to help clinicians predict which COVID-19 patients may die, a new study shows.
Nearly 77 percent of the COVID-19 patients hospitalized from March to early April in New Orleans-based Ochsner Health's network were black, a new study shows.
One in 10 diabetics with COVID-19 died within seven days of being hospitalized, a study of hospitals in France found.