Infectious Diseases
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As COVID treatments dwindle, are new ones waiting in the wings?
Bebtelovimab couldn’t neutralize the Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1.
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Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients
The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation in the fall of 2022 is a byproduct of financial decisions made by hospitals over...
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Multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections treatable with newer antibiotics, but guidance is needed
They found that these infections were the second leading cause of death worldwide.
Opinion
How a cheap liver drug may be the key to preventing COVID
The authors of a paper appearing in Nature give us multiple, complementary lines of evidence.
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Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits
The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying,
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Children and COVID: Hospitalizations provide a tale of two sources
Thanksgiving travel seems to have had little effect on new pediatric cases.
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Study comparing surgical and N95 masks sparks concern
The findings are not consistent with those of many other studies on this topic.
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FDA pulls U.S. authorization for Eli Lilly’s COVID drug bebtelovimab
The drug is not expected to neutralize the dominant BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 subvariants of Omicron.
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Multiple Annular Erythematous Plaques
A 59-year-old man was admitted to the medical ward with multiple annular erythematous plaques and polyarthralgia of several months’ duration. His...
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RSV surge stuns parents and strains providers, but doctors offer help
The parents of the child who had a severe case of RSV reflected on the their son’s bout with the illness.