Infectious Diseases
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HIV prevention: Clinician attitudes may be curtailing PrEP use
The findings reflect a prevailing fear of “risk compensation” – the concern that an individual on PrEP may start to take additional compensatory...
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The right indoor relative humidity could ward off COVID
The “sweet spot” associated with reduced COVID-19 cases and deaths is 40%-60% indoor relative humidity.
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: Weekly cases maintain a low-level plateau
White House coordinator says that a holiday COVID-19 surge is unlikely.
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AAP issues guidelines to combat rise in respiratory illness
The group outlines measures to optimize resources to manage a surge of patients.
Conference Coverage
HIV: Treating ‘symptom clusters’ could help improve QOL
Evidence suggests there are four main symptom clusters.
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As STDs proliferate, companies rush to market at-home test kits. But are they reliable?
The FDA wants companies to prove that home collection kits are as accurate as those used in clinics, and that samples don’t degrade during...
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Experts explain the ‘perfect storm’ of rampant RSV and flu
“Decreased exposure to endemic viruses created an immunity gap – a group of susceptible individuals who avoided infection and therefore lack...
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Hypertension linked to risk of severe COVID
A new study out of the United Kingdom identifies at what level high blood pressure can help predict a life-threatening case of the virus.
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HIV: Greater parental involvement needed with young men who have sex with men
“The goal was to get parents to deliver more messages and engage in more behaviors with their sons that we think are likely to help their sons...
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Bepirovirsen: Is a ‘functional cure’ for HBV on the horizon?
“Bepirovirsen is just one RNA-based HBV therapy now being pursued. Several other antisense RNAs as well as the more malleable small interfering...
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Flu vaccination associated with reduced stroke risk
“What we were most surprised by was the sheer magnitude of the effect and that it existed across different adult age groups, for both sexes, and...