Research Summaries

Osteoarthritis is a common chronic and degenerative disease among adults. A group of experts estimated the disease’s burden spanning two decades and the projection of burden to 2050.

In a randomized clinical trial, a team of researchers compared the use of cefepime and piperacillin-tazobactam—commonly used medications for empirical treatment of infection—to determine the risks of...

Clinicians generally treat HIV-associated tuberculosis meningitis with glucocorticoids, but little is known about its efficacy and safety.

A team of researchers sought to find the effectiveness of high spinal anesthesia and general anesthesia in postoperative recovery times among pediatric patients undergoing congenital heart surgery.

Researchers evaluated the popular diabetes medication, semaglutide, to determine whether it causes or worsens diabetic retinopathy in patients using the medication. Their findings were presented at AAO 2023...

A team of researchers evaluated the connection between oral contraceptive pill use and the prevalence of major depression in women.

More than one-third of young adults in the United States were found to have had anxiety or depression during the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-sectional study recently published in JAMA Network Open. 

Researchers studied the risk and prevalence of individuals developing varicella-zoster reactivation after receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccination compared with receiving influenza vaccination. Their findings...

Researchers aimed to quantify the amount of protection maternal COVID-19 boosters provide during the first 6 months of an infant’s life.

In effort to understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic among patients with sickle cell disease, researchers compared outcomes and characteristics of hospitalized patients both before and during the...