Infectious Diseases
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Make adult immunization a profit center
NEW ORLEANS – “It is virtually impossible to lose money giving vaccines.”
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Summer colds
From the Journals
Vaccine nonmedical exemptions creating metro ‘hotspots’
Maricopa County, Ariz., had almost 3,000 unimmunized kindergartners in 2016-2017.
From the Journals
Insurer denials of DAA therapy for HCV on the rise
About one in three patients had lack of fill approval by insurers.
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CDC warns of hepatitis A outbreaks in injection drug users
Gap in vaccine availability now has been solved.
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Hospital-acquired conditions drop 8% since 2014, saving 8,000 lives and $3 billion
The largest improvements occurred in central line–associated bloodstream infections (down 31% from 2014).
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CDC concerned about multidrug-resistant Shigella
if clinicians need to use antibiotics to treat patients who have Shigella infections, they should monitor these patients carefully.
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Shingles hospitalization occurs more often among IBD patients
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease who were hospitalized for a vaccine-preventable infection had twice the rate of shingles as did the...
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VIDEO: Hepatitis C eradication cuts nonliver cancer rate
WASHINGTON - U.S. data from thousands of treated hepatitis C patients implicates the virus as carcinogenic and a factor in a wide range of...
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Vaccine-related febrile seizures have zero developmental impact
MALMO, SWEDEN – Aussie study shows Bayley III scores 12-24 months later were identical to those of healthy controls.
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Trio of blood biomarkers elevated in children with LRTIs
TORONTO - Proadrenomedullin is most strongly associated with disease severity in children with lower respiratory tract infections.