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U.S. to Tell Doctors to Report Cases of COVID-19 Inflammatory Syndrome in Kids

Julie Steenhuysen  |  

CHICAGO (Reuters)—On May 13, U.S. health officials said they will issue an alert telling doctors to report cases of a rare life-threatening inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 in children to their state and local health departments. The alert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be released on Wednesday or Thursday,…

3 U.S. Children with COVID-19 Have Rare Inflammatory Syndrome

Julie Steenhuysen  |  

CHICAGO (Reuters)—Three U.S. children infected with the coronavirus are being treated for a rare inflammatory syndrome that appears similar to one that has raised concerns by doctors in Britain, Italy and Spain, a specialist treating the patients told Reuters. All three—who range in age from 6 months to 8 years—have undergone treatment at Columbia University…

Trial of Gilead’s Potential Coronavirus Treatment Running Ahead of Schedule

Deena Beasley  |  

(Reuters)—A key U.S. government trial of Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental coronavirus treatment may yield results as early as mid-May, according to the study’s lead investigator, after doctors clamored to enroll their patients in the study. Preliminary findings from the randomized trial of the antiviral drug remdesivir, begun in February by the National Institute of Allergy…

Not All Rheumatoid Factor-Positive Tests Mean RA

Francis Essien, DO, & Matthew B. Carroll, MD, FACP, FACR  |  

Angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma (AITL) is an aggressive, peripheral T cell, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma with an incidence of 0.05 cases per 100,000 person-years in the U.S., and it typically manifests in adults older than 60 years.1,2 AITL was previously known as angio­immunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia, immunoblastic lympha­denopathy or lymphogranulomatosis X, due to the hypothesis that the…

2 Patients on Different DMARDs Experience Different COVID-19 Disease Courses

Luis A. Marcos, MD, MPH, Saika Sharmeen, DO, Jaime Gonzalez, MD, Qingping Yao, MD, PhD, Bettina Fries, MD, & Jack Fuhrer, MD  |  

In March 2020, an elderly married couple living on Long Island, N.Y., presented to our emergency department with symptoms suspicious for COVID-19 infection. The wife, a-76-year-old woman, presented with complaints of subjective fevers, minimal dry cough and headaches of one-week duration. She denied having any chills, rhinorrhea, diarrhea, abdominal pain or shortness of breath. Two…