Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 patients with severe disease were significantly less likely to require mechanical ...
Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the use of high-flow oxygen through a nasal cannula reduced the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and sped up recovery compared to conventional oxygen ...
Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir has been a crucial treatment for COVID-19 for months, but new data from a “gold standard” trial give a clearer picture of the med’s benefit. The drug, tested against ...
A nasal cannula is a medical device that provides supplemental oxygen therapy to people who have lower oxygen levels. There are two types of nasal cannulas: low flow and high flow. The device has two ...
In hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was associated with greater use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV), but booster vaccination reduced this risk, a retrospective ...
Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...