Infectious Diseases
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Is Melatonin a Valuable Resource or Children’s Health Risk?
Melatonin supplements are unregulated and use in children could carry risks of unintentional dosing and creating poor sleep habits.
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COVID Levels Decline, but Other Viruses Remain High
While COVID rates have slowed, rates of RSV, flu, norovirus, and rotavirus infections are expected to increase.
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New Infant RSV Antibody Treatment Shows Strong Results
Babies who received the new preventive treatment for RSV shortly after birth were 90% less likely to be severely sickened.
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COVID Virus Can Remain in the Body Over a Year
The antigens were found more often in people who were hospitalized with COVID or who reported being very sick but were not hospitalized.
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Flu Vaccines to Change After COVID Kills Off One Strain of Virus
Social distancing likely ended a flu strain, and trivalent vaccines are now recommended for next season.
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Postinfectious Cough: Are Treatments Ever Warranted?
Physicians weigh in on when and how to treat a lingering cough.
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Bivalent Vaccines Protect Even Children Who’ve Had COVID
Doctor discusses the progression of understanding of COVID-19 and current vaccines.
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Bivalent COVID Vaccine Protected Children, Adolescents
Children who received an mRNA bivalent vaccine were less likely to be infected than were unvaccinated peers or those who received only monovalent...
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Respiratory Virus Surge: Diagnosing COVID-19 vs RSV, Flu
Due to overlapping symptoms, clinicians may struggle to differentiate diagnosis between flu, COVID-19, or RSV.
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Five Bold Predictions for Long COVID in 2024
If even one of these comes true, long COVID sufferers could enjoy some much-needed relief.