Immune Profile to Distinguish Long COVID
In an exclusive video featured on MedPage Today, Harlan Krumholz, MD, Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale, speaks about a preprint he co-authored still under peer […]
In an exclusive video featured on MedPage Today, Harlan Krumholz, MD, Director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale, speaks about a preprint he co-authored still under peer […]
Due to the increase in tularemia diagnoses over the past two decades, Michael Kelson, et al, published a case report in Cureus to raise awareness of the rare yet life-threatening zoonotic infection, which initially presents with non-specific flu-like symptoms mostly during summer months.
Farm Journal has published an article on the increasing presence of Haemaphysalis longicornis, the Asian longhorned tick (ALT), in the U.S. Since arriving in the country four years ago from Southeast Asia, ALT has now been detected in one-third of the nation’s states.
A study conducted was just published in Brain, which describes the vascular pathology and inflammatory changes, as well as the cellular and humoral immune responses by immunohistochemistry observed in autopsied […]
Robert C. Bransfield, MD, published a study examining how adverse childhood events (ACE), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and infectious encephalopathies are linked to immune-mediated disease in the journal, Healthcare. Bransfield reviewed supporting data and found that each of these issues correlates with intrusive symptoms and pathology of the temporal lobe.
A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, by Ralph Rogers, et al., examined
antimicrobial resistance in an immunocompromised patient with relapsing babesiosis who was effectively treated with tafenoquine.
May Awareness LDA Guest Blogger Thomas Platts-Mills MD, PhD, FRCP, FRS trained in Oxford and after completing Medical Residency in the UK went to Johns Hopkins to train in Allergy […]
May Awareness LDA Guest Blogger Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH, is a board-certified internist and epidemiologist and a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of tick-borne diseases. He has lectured at […]
May Awareness guest blogger, Scott Commins MD, says “when it comes to ticks and the human immune system, we don’t have all the answers and we need to stop pretending as though we do.” Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS) is an easy example. At a fundamental level AGS seems straightforward: a tick bite induces an allergy to the alpha-gal sugar found in mammals and, thereafter, one experiences allergic reactions to beef, pork, lamb, venison, etc. However, we know this is an oversimplification […]
In this case report, a 79-year-old male sought care through the ER at a New York City hospital after experiencing acute illness and his wife noticed blood in his urine. […]
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