Infectious Diseases
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My patient is having an affair and has an STI. I’m treating both partners. What would you do?
Caring for spouses or two partners when an STI is discovered can be challenging for physicians, particularly in small towns where many people know...
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Babies are dying of syphilis. It’s 100% preventable.
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Commentary
Q&A: Meeting the challenge of giving COVID vaccines to younger kids
Pediatric experts share best practices for meeting the challenges of immunizing children aged 5-11 years.
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Can adjunct corticosteroids help in childrens’ eye and throat infections?
Prospective studies are needed to clearly identify which patients will have a strong benefit and which will not benefit.
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HCV in pregnancy: One piece of a bigger problem
“These data also enable us to step back a bit from HCV and look at the landscape of how the opioid crisis continues to grow in complexity and...
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: A look at the pace of vaccination
Nearly 6 months after the vaccine was approved for children aged 12-15 years, less than half are fully vaccinated.
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Influenza tied to long-term increased risk for Parkinson’s disease
“The infection could be a ‘primer’ or an initial ‘hit’ to the system, maybe setting people up for PD.”
From the Journals
Antidepressant may cut COVID-19–related hospitalization, mortality: TOGETHER
In the latest study, fluvoxamine-treated patients had a 32% reduction in hospitalizations and emergency visits, compared with those in the placebo...
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CDC: Urgency remains to vaccinate children
"There's urgency because we're seeing disease in children, we've seen deaths in children, we've seen long COVID," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky,...
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Rash in an immunocompromised patient
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Judge dismisses Lyme disease lawsuit against IDSA, doctors, but the ordeal has left its scars
The Infectious Diseases Society of America could have chosen to settle the lawsuit instead of fighting it, but the principles at stake were too...