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email article Among patients with moderate to severe COVID-19, there was no difference in length of hospital stay in those given a single 200,000-IU dose of vitamin D 3 versus those given placebo in a randomized trial in Brazil. Median length of hospital stay was about 7 days for both groups, with no significant differences in secondary outcomes including in-hospital mortality, admission to ICU, or need for mechanical ventilation, reported Rosa Pereira, MD, PhD, of Universidade de Sao Paulo, and colleagues in an online edition of An accompanying editorial by David Leaf, MD, of Brigham ...

Less than a week after JAMA Network Open published a small study showing zinc and vitamin C were not associated with improved mild COVID-19 infections, a 240-person JAMA study also found that a single dose of vitamin D did not have any significant effect on moderate to severe COVID-19 infections. The study, published yesterday by Igor Murai, PhD, a Sao Paul rheumatologist, and colleagues, reported that hospital stay was a median 7.0 days for both those in the intervention and the placebo group, and while there were differences up to 8.4 percentage points across in-hospital mortality, intens...

Bexley Libraries are facing cuts amidst a large financial budget gap at the local authority. Plans to strip back Bexley's library services have been approved by the council as it battles a financial black hole in its budget. Among the proposals approved are reduced opening times, a closed-day once a week, reduced staff, fewer events, less funding for community libraries and greater reliance on self-service. The move comes as Bexley Council battles with a major financial black hole in its budget, currently projected as £1.4m, increasing to more than £13 by 2024/25. The latest steps i...

And who is Jude and where is Penny Lane? While these queries sound like the perfect starting off points for spirited conversations by Beatlemaniacs, they were actually elements of serious inquiry at Liverpool Hope University. In 2009, the UK institution made global headlines by offering what was believed to be the first Master's degree on The Beatles. The academic programme, titled The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, was offered on a full-time and part-time basis by the university's Department of Music and included four 12-week modules and a final dissertation. A decade ago today, on Ja...

Paul Stanley was so drunk during the photo shoot for Kiss' Hotter Than Hell album cover that he had to be locked in a car for his own protection. As the guitarist recalled in David Leaf and Ken Sharp's Kiss: Behind the Mask, "I don't know if anybody can make out the back cover of the album, but we were having this wild, wild party with tons of people in weird outfits. Ten minutes after that picture was taken, I passed out. I cut my hand. I don't know how I did it. I was so drunk that they locked me in a car and I couldn't find my way out. A lot of the pictures taken for the back cover have...