Residential evictions are associated with adverse health outcomes, particularly among low-income populations. Less is known, however, about whether interventions designed to prevent evictions can improve health outcomes — including whether they may reduce visits to the emergency department (ED). UCLA Health researchers explored this question by examining the relationship between New York City’s tenant right-to-counsel program, which provides free legal representation to tenants facing eviction, and emergency department use. 

A new review in Clinical Infectious Diseases, led by Brown University Health’s Leonard A. Mermel, DO, offers guidance on preventing and managing recurrent bloodstream infections in patients who depend on long-term intravenous catheters. The review highlights individualized care, prompt diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment, addressing when catheters must be removed and when preserving essential vascular access may be appropriate.

University of Rochester Medicine researchers find new evidence that changes in the brain caused by iron deficiency during pregnancy cannot be fully rescued with supplements. They also found an imbalance of several other minerals that support development and function, including essential macro minerals like calcium and magnesium and essential trace minerals like manganese, copper, and zinc in the mice that were iron-deficient in utero. These mineral imbalances were accompanied by lasting changes in networks associated with genes involved in brain development and communication between brain cells.

Proteins linked to the immune system, cell adhesion, blood vessel formation and known prostate cancer genes, were associated with the future risk of developing prostate cancer, including aggressive disease, in a new study led by researchers at Oxford Population Health.

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a vaccine widely used to prevent tuberculosis and treat bladder cancer may also have properties that reduce the risk for dementia, according to new findings in a study of mice. BCG is a live, weakened vaccine made from an altered strain of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. The findings from this study, which was led by a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health, published today in Science Advances.