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HPV Vaccination in Adolescence Prevents Cancer More than 10 Years Later
The authors of this long-term follow-up study of three cluster-randomized trials of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination evaluated cancer protection over up to 11 years of follow-up. During this time, 17 HPV-positive cancers were identified in the unvaccinated group, and zero were identified in the vaccinated group, indicating 100% vaccine efficacy at preventing HPV-associated cancers.
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COVID-19 Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
The combination of tixagevimab and cilgavimab (Evusheld) was demonstrated to be effective in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19, but much remains to be learned as SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve.
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Updated Management of Malaria
Malaria is preventable and treatable, yet there still are hundreds of millions of cases of malaria each year. New guidelines encourage personal and community prevention. Treatment usually is with artemisinin-based combination therapy.
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Who Can Get the Janssen/J&J (Non-mRNA) COVID-19 Vaccine Now?
The Food and Drug Administration recently limited the use of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
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Oral Tebipenem: A New Antibiotic for Multidrug-Resistant, Gram-Negative Complicated Urinary Tract Infections
A randomized clinical trial that compared oral tebipenem with intravenous ertapenem in patients with complicated urinary tract infection or acute pyelonephritis found tebipenem to be noninferior in efficacy. The safety profile was similar between the two drugs.
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International Outbreak of Acute Hepatitis in Children — Putative Role of Adenovirus 41
Cases of acute hepatitis in children, tentatively ascribed to adenovirus 41 infection, while first reported from a single hospital in Alabama, are being seen internationally.
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Report: Pregnancy-Related Hypertensive Disorders Doubled in 12 Years
An estimated one in five births in the United States are affected by various adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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Is a Healthcare Infection a Medical Error? Nurse Conviction Roils Patient Safety
Over the last two decades, there has been a tectonic shift of the perception that healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) were an inevitable consequence of invasive care to the radical notion that most infections actually are preventable. This has raised the question, at least in some cases, of whether failure to prevent an HAI is indeed a medical error. This discussion no longer is academic.
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Unexplained Pediatric Hepatitis Cases Detected Globally
As of May 5, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was investigating 109 children with hepatitis of unknown origin across 25 states and territories. More than half of them have tested positive for adenovirus.
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Joint Commission Surveys in the Time of COVID-19
How far is The Joint Commission behind on healthcare accreditation surveys? By the end of June 2022, they expect to be caught up with scheduled inspections — for 2021. However, the accrediting body for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is gamely moving forward, using virtual technology for some facilities, and conducting on-site inspections at hospitals.