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PrEP appears to be safe in pregnancy
SEATTLE – Pregnant women taking PrEP and unexposed controls had no differences during pregnancy or child growth outcomes 1 year after birth.
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Ibalizumab suppressed HIV-1 in multidrug-resistant patients
Combined with an optimized regimen, an antibody that targets the CD4 receptor maintained viral suppression out to 24 weeks in multidrug-resistant...
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Small study: Drug combo achieves negative bacterial culture in all TB patients
SEATTLE – A three-drug combination of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid achieved negative bacterial culture in all surviving patients at 4...
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Two-drug combo looks good for HIV maintenance therapy
A two-drug combo works as well as three- or four-drug combinations in HIV maintenance.
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Prednisone reduces TB-IRIS risk
SEATTLE – Prophylactic prednisone reduced the incidence of tuberculosis-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in patients cotreated for HIV...
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Scleroligation procedure proposed for gastroesophageal varices
In the treatment of gastroesophageal varices, scleroligation – a hybrid procedure that combines sclerotherapy and band ligation – performed as...
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Addition of calcipotriene to 5-FU increases efficacy, tolerability as AK treatment
A combination of 5-FU and the immunomodulatory calcipotriol had greater efficacy and was better tolerated than topical 5-FU alone.
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Blood pressure rise follows halting CPAP
Many previous studies showed no effect of CPAP treatment on cardiovascular outcomes, but when researchers took CPAP users off therapy for 2 weeks...
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In lung cancer screening, patient education works
Patients showed marked improvement in knowledge of screening criteria and potential harms after a counseling session, but the improvements faded...
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Early paternal emotional involvement tied to children’s preadolescent behavior
A father’s emotional response to the child and sense of security as a father in the first year of life were associated with fewer behavioral...
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Two doses of HPV vaccine may be noninferior to three
The immunogenicity response to two doses of the 9-valent HPV vaccine in children and adolescents was noninferior to the immunogenicity of the...
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Higher sRAGE found in nonfocal ARDS
A soluble marker of alveolar epithelial damage may help physicians identify focal versus nonfocal acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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Flu susceptibility driven by birth year
Differences in influenza A susceptibility once attributed to age may actually be due to the immune system “imprinting” on the viruses present...
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Diabetes, stroke linked to recurrent C. difficile
Clostridium difficile