Infectious Diseases
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No longer a death sentence, HIV diagnosis still hits hard
People diagnosed now seem to experience more shame and embarrassment than those diagnosed before.
Practice Alert
Keep COVID-19 vaccination on your patients’ radar
Waning vaccine-induced immunity and viral mutation require updated COVID-19 interventions. Here’s the latest on vaccines and immunization...
News
Laissez-faire
While reducing antibiotic resistance is an important concern at a patient and community level, we should not become complacent about the risks to...
News
Test all perinatally exposed infants for HCV: CDC
The CDC noted that rates of HCV infections during pregnancy are on the rise.
From the Journals
People with long COVID don’t show signs of brain damage
“The findings thus suggest that post-COVID condition is not the result of ongoing infection, immune activation, or brain damage.”
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Tech encourages HIV prevention among women
“Mobile technologies, in particular, offer a nimble, customizable, and accessible way to reach this target population and increase awareness of...
Commentary
Upper respiratory infections: Viral testing in primary care
Test results will help guide not only treatment decisions but also infection control measures.
From the Journals
Vaccination status doesn’t impact infectivity timeline in kids
”Current policies requiring isolation for 5 days after a positive test might be appropriate, as the majority of children were not infectious by...
News from the FDA/CDC
New meningococcal vaccine wins FDA approval
The vaccine “has the potential to protect more adolescents and young adults from this severe and unpredictable disease by providing the broadest...
Conference Coverage
Sputum microbiome may augur treatment success in NTM-PD
Patients cured of nontuberculosis mycobacterial infections with antibiotics had greater species diversity in sputum than those with refractory...
Conference Coverage
AI chatbot ‘hallucinates’ faulty medical intelligence
AI models are typically a year out of date and have this “charming problem of hallucinating made-up data and saying it with all the certainty of...