Infectious Diseases
Feature
Children and COVID: Decline in new cases reaches 7th week
Study shows that the COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the Omicron variant.
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Antiseptic as good as antibiotics for preventing recurrent UTI
Using methenamine hippurate as an alternative could play an important role in helping to tackle the global problem of increasing antibiotic...
From the Journals
COVID-19 often more severe with congenital heart defects
“Hospitalized patients with heart defects are up to twice as likely to have critical outcomes of COVID-19 illness,” says author of a new study.
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COVID-19 vax effectiveness quantified in immunosuppressed patients
A database study of 154,000 patients found that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give people taking immunosuppressants significant protection against COVID-19...
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Cat ownership in childhood linked ‘conditionally’ to psychosis in adult males
The suspected culprit is not the cat itself but rather exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite sometimes found in cat feces.
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C. difficile vaccine: Pfizer’s phase 3 CLOVER trial shows mixed results
“I am impressed, from the limited data that have been made available, that the vaccine appears to have efficacy of around 50% for reducing CDI.”...
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: Weekly cases at lowest level since August
Florida’s surgeon general drops a bomb on vaccination.
Feature
FDA committee recommends 2022-2023 influenza vaccine strains
Practice Alert
Vaccine update: The latest recommendations from ACIP
Here are the latest recommendations on the hepatitis, pneumococcal, zoster, rabies, and dengue vaccines.
Commentary
Let’s be more careful about the data—and commentary—we publish
In a recent letter to the editor, “25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration is key to analyzing vitamin D’s effects” (J Fam Pract. 2021;70:472), Dr....
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Nirsevimab protects healthy infants from RSV
“Nirsevimab has the potential to seriously decrease the annual overwhelming number of RSV infected babies.”