The National Health Service defines Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) as a condition that causes pain, stiffness, and inflammation in the muscles around the shoulders, neck, and hips. Poly means many, and myalgia means muscle pain. Thus, PMR presents as muscle pain in several areas of the body. This article features several case reports of PMR after…
This article features a research paper that detected mRNA in breast milk from lactating mothers. The paper was published in JAMA Pediatrics, and the authors are from the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics of New York University. The findings of this research are significant because, up to now, no one knows if the messenger…
This article features several case reports of COVID-19-associated Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM) following the COVID-19 vaccination. Anatomy Acute Transverse Myelitis is an inflammation of a segment of the whole spinal cord. The spinal cord comes from the brain and is divided into the cervical (neck), thoracic (chest), lumbar (lower back), and sacrococcygeal (tailbone) segments. Spinal…
A newly released study, Autoantibodies linked to autoimmune diseases associate with COVID-19 outcomes, discovered elevated autoantibodies in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 infections.[1] The study included 248 adults from five states of the USA. One hundred seventy-one of them had COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR testing. Seventy-seven are healthy controls. The…
