Autism spectrum disorder diagnosis using a new panel of immune- and inflammatory-related serum biomarkers: A case-control multicenter study.

Background And Objectives: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present with distinctive clinical features. No objective laboratory assay has been developed to establish a diagnosis of ASD. Considering the known immunological associations with ASD, immunological biomarkers might enable ASD diagnosis and intervention at an early age when the immature brain has the highest degree of plasticity.

Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fragmented and inefficient healthcare system in the United States leads to many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs every year. During a pandemic, the lives saved and economic benefits of a single-payer universal healthcare system relative to the status quo would be even greater. For Americans who are uninsured and underinsured, financial barriers to COVID-19 care delayed diagnosis and exacerbated transmission.

Exacerbation of COVID-19 mortality by the fragmented United States healthcare system: A retrospective observational study.

Background: Before widespread vaccination, the United States was disproportionately affected by COVID-19 with a mortality rate several times that of other affluent societies. Comparing regions with different rates of health insurance, we assess how much of this excess mortality may be due to the relatively large population without health insurance.

Methods: We use daily surveillance data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stratified by region, age group, gender, and race in regression analysis of daily COVID-19 cases, hospitalization, and mortality.

Capacity building in nutrition science: revisiting the curricula for medical professionals.

The current nutrition education curricula for students in U.S. medical schools, and schools of other health professions, such as nursing and oral health, do not provide enough opportunity to gain knowledge of the interactions among micro- and macronutrients, their role in maintaining optimal body functions, factors that interfere with these interactions, or, importantly, how to integrate this knowledge into medical practice.

The role of probiotics in the prevention and treatment of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile colitis.

Clostridium difficile colitis is the most common gastrointestinal infection, exceeding all other gastrointestinal infections combined. There has been a dramatic increase in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) worldwide during the past decade. Antibiotic therapy is a trigger precipitating antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), which may lead to CDI.

Compilation of recommendations from summit on increasing physician nutrition experts.

This report compiles the list of recommendations derived from the Summit on Increasing Physician Nutrition Experts. The recommendations represent expert opinion on topics related to increasing the number of physicians who choose nutrition as a career option and on topics related to strengthening multidisciplinary educational programs, research activity, and clinical practice in nutrition in the future. The recommendations should not be interpreted to represent consensus, approval, or endorsement by attendees or participating societies.

Proposal for medical school nutrition education: topics and recommendations.

The mission of increasing the number of physician nutrition experts requires focused nutrition education directed at medical students across the 4-year curriculum and into postgraduate training. Courses should be horizontally and vertically integrated, bridging the basic sciences and clinical medicine. It is anticipated that the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Association of American Medical Colleges will require competency in nutrition with emphasis on preventive and therapeutic applications.

Microecology, obesity, and probiotics.

Purpose Of Review: Description of the role that the microbiota may play in human health, energy harvest, and obesity.

Recent Findings: The adult human gut may contain up to 100 trillion microbial organisms, known as the microbiota. Major advances in defining the quality, quantity, and physiologic activity of the intestinal microbiota were precipitated by the conversion from culture-based techniques to metagenomics.

Advances in paediatric migraine.

Headache is one of the most common complaints of children who present to primary care providers. Although parents are often concerned about sinister pathology, the majority of children with headaches have primary headache syndromes, including migraine and tension-type headaches. Diagnostic criteria for children are currently evolving to better reflect the unique challenges of this group of patients.