Infectious Diseases
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CDC recommends use of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds
ACIP voted 14-0 in favor of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine in younger teens.
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Keep antibiotics unchanged in breakthrough UTIs
Risk of a second resistant urinary tract infection was not increased by changing continuous antibiotics in children.
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Palliative care in the pandemic: How one hospital met the challenge
The palliative care team at the University of Texas at Austin adapted both patient care and medical education when the region became a COVID-19...
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Quinolones and tendon health: Third-generation drugs may be safer
But the study design and execution had some limitations.
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Progress stalling on malaria elimination
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Success in LGBTQ+ medicine requires awareness of risk
Cross-sex hormone therapy is a life-sustaining treatment that should be viewed analogously with any other long-term management strategy, such as...
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HPV vaccination rates continue to climb among young adults in U.S.
For persons who have not previously received the HPV vaccine or who did not receive adequate doses, the HPV vaccine is recommended through age 26...
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Being overweight ups risk of severe COVID-19 in hospital
This research “adds to the known data on the associations between obesity and severe COVID-19 disease and extends these findings” to patients who...
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Line of therapy matters for assessing biologic’s serious infection risk in RA
The risk for serious infection seen with tocilizumab is confounded by whether the drug is given as first-line or as subsequent treatment in the...
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Malaria resistant to artemisinin emerging in Africa