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Adolescents, boys, black children most likely to be hospitalized in SJS and TEN
Annual hospitalization rates in the United States for Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis were shown to be higher in...
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Enthesitis seen in 35% of PsA patients
About one-third of people with psoriatic arthritis have clinical enthesitis, according to results from a prospective cohort study of more than 800...
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NIAID panel: Introduce peanut foods early to cut allergy risk
New NIAID guidelines recommend introducing peanut foods early to children at various levels of risk for peanut allergy.
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Diabetes, ischemic heart disease, pain lead health spending
Diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and back/neck pain are the top three conditions accounting for the highest spending on personal health care.
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Pritelivir beats valacyclovir at suppressing genital HSV-2 infection
A 1-month course of pritelivir reduced genital HSV-2 shedding more than valacyclovir did in a small phase II clinical trial.
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USPSTF nixes routine genital herpes screening
Asymptomatic adults and adolescents should not undergo routine serologic screening for genital herpes because the harms outweigh the benefits,...
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Replicative Zika RNA found in brain and placental tissue
U.S.-based researchers have isolated replicative Zika virus RNA from the brain tissue of infants with microcephaly, and the placenta and fetal...
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Addition of calcipotriene to 5-FU increases efficacy, tolerability as AK treatment
A combination of 5-FU and the immunomodulatory calcipotriol had greater efficacy and was better tolerated than topical 5-FU alone.
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Skin cancer a concern in pediatric solid organ transplant recipients
As survival rates among pediatric organ transplant recipients grow, so do the rates of cutaneous malignancy later in life for this population, who...
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Study: Pretreatment ECG not always needed in babies with hemangiomas
A study of infants who underwent ECG screening before receiving propranolol indicates that routine ECG is “not likely to be an effective screening...
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Azathioprine linked to increased risk of SCC in transplant recipients
Immunosuppressive treatment with azathioprine may be associated with an increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma in organ transplant recipients,...