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Coronavirus causing a rise in eating disorders, diabetes
Study: COVID-19 triggering diabetes in some survivors
Along with other long-term health issues, a new study is suggesting that COVID-19 is triggering diabetes in some survivors of the virus.
A new study found that 39% of Department of Veterans Affairs’ patients have diabetes within six months of getting the virus.
A similar study in England looked at 50,000 COVID-19 cases and found people were 50% more likely to get diabetes within six months after being discharged from the hospital.
Researchers believe the virus is somehow triggering the disease.
Another unwelcome result of the pandemic is a rise in eating disorders.
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Think You Have Penicillin Allergy? You May Not
May 3, 2021 Most people whose medical records say they are allergic to penicillin may not actually be, an allergist said Thursday during the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting 2021.
The mis-diagnosis of an penicillin allergy may be dangerous and hurts efforts to fight antibiotic resistance, said Olajumoke Fadugba, MD, program director for the Allergy and Immunology Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia.
About 10% of the population reports a history of penicillin allergy , but up to 90% of them are actually able to tolerate penicillin, Fadugba said. The mislabeling comes either because previous reactions were mischaracterized or people have outgrown the allergy.