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Does screening kids with acute sinusitis symptoms for bacterial infection cut unnecessary antibiotic use?
If antibiotic use was limited to children with H. influenzae or S. pneumoniae in their nasopharynx at the time of diagnosis, antibiotic use would...
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Partial immunization leaves children and communities at risk, study finds
The strongest association with not completing the vaccine series was moving across state lines and not having insurance.
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Low HIV levels linked to ‘almost zero’ risk of sexual transmission
“This [finding] provides a powerful opportunity to help destigmatize HIV, promote the benefits of adhering to antiretroviral therapy, and support...
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CDC offers guidance on RSV vaccines for adults
Rather than targeting all adults 60 and over, the decision calls for consideration of a patients’ risk for disease and their characteristics,...
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Daily statin cuts cardiovascular risk in HIV
“These are types of people who, if they came to the doctor’s office right now before REPRIEVE, they would largely be told your risk score is not...
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Fungal cultures in bronchiectasis don’t predict outcomes
When compared for outcome over time, those with a positive fungal culture at initial evaluation did not have more exacerbations.
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Asthma severity, exacerbations increase with RV infection
Immunological and quantitative mRNA assays support a pathogenesis role for histamine-releasing factor.
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Rising patient costs tied to private equity ownership
The report provides “convincing evidence that incentives to put profits before patients have grown stronger with an increase in private equity...
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Infection-related chronic illness: A new paradigm for research and treatment
Researchers are looking to build a common research agenda for infection-related chronic illnesses to “understand the epidemiology and pathogenesis...
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Research points toward combination therapy for Lyme and improved diagnostics
Lyme disease researchers are investigating combination therapy to address “persister” bacteria and diagnostic tests that test directly for the...
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When did medicine become a battleground for everything?
As doctors became the enforcers of pandemic public health measures, the line between physicians and public health officials blurred. A lot of the...