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Rapid Practice Points for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines in Non-Pregnant Healthy Adults
6+ hour, 51+ min ago (221+ words) No specific treatment is available for RSV, but new vaccines have emerged, including those using a traditional protein subunit strategy. However, unlike the influenza vaccine, which is offered annually, RSV vaccines are administered only once. Members of the ACP gathered…...
Balancing Drug Safety and Disease Control in Pregnant Patients With IBD
3+ week, 3+ day ago (365+ words) Uma Mahadevan, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, shares data on the risk for birth defects from the use of JAK inhibitors during pregnancy for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In this retrospective study, there was no…...
What Are the Antipsychotic Prescribing Patterns Among Pediatric Patients With Epilepsy in Uganda?
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (312+ words) Docwire News What Are the Antipsychotic Prescribing Patterns Among Pediatric Patients With Epilepsy in Uganda? Antipsychotic medications are frequently prescribed to pediatric patients with epilepsy to manage behavioral and psychiatric symptoms, such as depression, aggression, irritability, and hyperactivity, that accompany…...
Pollution May Limit Exercise Benefits in Children
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (163+ words) Vigorous exercise fosters lung growth in children, but the environments where they play are increasingly polluted with ozone, an oxidant gas that produces epithelial damage in the airways. Consequently, exposure to high ozone levels during physical exertion diminishes the health…...
Global Experts Rename PCOS to PMOS to Reveal Its Multisystem Pathophysiology
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (336+ words) PMOS is characterized by fluctuations in hormone levels that affect weight, metabolism, mental health, skin, and the reproductive system. For years, the name reduced a complex, long'term endocrine disorder to a misunderstanding about "cysts" with an overemphasis on the ovaries,…...
Pediatric Late-Onset PD Linked With Altered Body Composition and Nutritional Intake
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (250+ words) Pediatric Late-Onset Pompe Disease Linked With Altered Body Composition and Nutritional Intake Body composition was assessed by bio-electrical impedance analysis. Results showed that patients with LOPD had significantly lower BMI, intracellular water, total body water, skeletal muscle mass, protein mass,…...
Teen Anxiety Linked to Worse Asthma Symptoms
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (520+ words) Docwire News Teen Anxiety Linked to Worse Asthma Symptoms Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions affecting teenagers. A recent study by Cristiane Ribeiro Veloso da Silva, and colleagues, suggests that mental health, especially anxiety, may play a…...
How Pregnancy Shapes Physician Productivity and Workforce Return
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (276+ words) A recent cohort study from JAMA Network Open provides new insight into how physicians adjust their workload before, during, and after pregnancy. The results highlight wide variation across specialties, with implications for workforce planning and practice operations. The study team…...
Primary Care Training Expands Access to Pediatric Mental Healthcare for Anxiety and Depression
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (176+ words) Anxiety and depression are among the most common and debilitating mental health conditions affecting children and adolescents, yet many young people do not receive adequate care. One major barrier is the shortage of specialized pediatric mental health providers, which limits…...
Genetically Modified Cell Therapy Reduces Severe Vaso-occlusive Crises in Patients With SCD
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (334+ words) Treatment with ristoglogene autogetemcel (risto-cel) cell therapy led to rapid engraftment, improved fetal hemoglobin (Hb F) expression, and reduced vaso-occlusive crises in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to the phase 1/2 BEACON trial published in the New England Journal of…...