Immunology
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New Criteria Identify Sepsis in Children With Infection
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Shingles Vaccine Offers 4 Years of Protection
People who received two doses of the vaccine, regardless of when they received their second dose, experienced 79% vaccine effectiveness during the...
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Musculoskeletal Symptoms Often Misattributed to Prior Tick Bites
A new study finds that Ehrlichia or Rickettsia seropositivity was not linked with chronic musculoskeletal symptoms, but alpha-...
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Study: Early Tecovirimat Stops Mpox Progression in HIV Patients
People with HIV and mpox disease who received tecovirimat within 7 days of symptom onset were 13 times less likely to experience progression,...
Opinion
JAMA Internal Medicine Editor Recaps 2023’s High-Impact Research
Harvard geriatrician Dr. Sharon K. Inouye highlights research into long COVID, thyroid levels, silicosis, and more.
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New tests may finally diagnose long COVID
“I was gobsmacked by the results. We’re seeing a massive dysregulation in those four biomarkers. It’s a combination that we showed was predictive...
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Psychosocial environmental factors may drive persistent childhood asthma
Groups of children exposed to bad trajectories of psychosocial factors were significantly more likely to have transient high and persistent high...
From the Journals
COVID vaccination protects B cell–deficient patients through T-cell responses
The findings demonstrate how vaccine-induced T-cell responses could potentially reduce COVID-19 severity, the authors write.
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FDA warns of potentially lethal reaction to seizure meds
Diagnosis is often difficult because early signs and symptoms, such as fever and swollen lymph nodes, may be present without evidence of a rash....
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Tapinarof effective for AD in patients as young as 2 years
Tapinarof cream, 1%, an aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist, was approved in 2022 for treating plaque psoriasis in adults.
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Parent concerns a factor when treating eczema in children with darker skin types
For the parent, the pigmentation changes, rather than the inflammation, might be the governing issue and the reason that he or she brought the...