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Q&A: ID agencies update treatment guidelines for drug-susceptible, drug-resistant TB

1 week ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd

Key takeaways:The CDC, IDSA and other agencies created updated guidance for treating drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB. The guidance is for both adolescents and adults. Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis for adolescents and adults.
Epinephrine nasal spray yields responses with, without allergic rhinitis

1 week ago | healio.com | Richard Gawel |Kristen Dowd

Key takeaways: Nasal spray offers an alternative for patients who are afraid of needles. Participants absorbed epinephrine more rapidly when they also had allergic rhinitis. Treatment was considered safe and well tolerated. Participants in a clinical trial who used Belhaven Biopharma’s Nasdepi dry powder epinephrine nasal spray experienced positive outcomes regardless of whether they had induced allergic rhinitis, according to a press release.
Parasitic infection may raise risk for cervical cancer, researchers say

1 week ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd

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Elevated eosinophil counts associated with cardiovascular disease

1 week ago | healio.com | Richard Gawel |Kristen Dowd

Key takeaways:The study comprised 264,590 patients whose eosinophil levels were measured. There were no significant changes in blood pressure following anti-IL-5 therapy, which depletes eosinophils. SAN DIEGO — Patients with higher eosinophil counts experienced more cardiovascular disease, according to a poster presented at the 2025 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology/World Allergy Organization Joint Congress. “Eosinophils have a lot of roles in the body. They have roles in immunity.
Black children without vs. with viral infection report more parent racial discrimination

1 week ago | healio.com | Isabella Hornick |Kristen Dowd

Key takeaways: Researchers found questionnaire scores indicating greater racial discrimination among children without vs. with a viral infection. This was not what researchers expected. SAN DIEGO — Black children/adolescents who came to the ED for acute respiratory symptoms and tested negative for a viral infection faced more racial discrimination than those with an infection, according to a poster presented here.
Healio begins live coverage of European ID conference

1 week ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Kristen Dowd

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world. The conference, known informally for years as ECCMID, was renamed last year for the organization that runs it — the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) — and to reflect its global focus, organizers said.
Q&A: New journal series examines complex cases in infectious diseases

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd |Varun K. Phadke

Key takeaways: Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched an article series looking in-depth at real cases and the clinical decision-making of ID physicians. The series is titled, “Clinical Dilemmas in Infectious Diseases.” Clinical Infectious Disease s has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal with regularly.
CDC closes lab that tracks STIs, alarming experts

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Caitlyn Stulpin |Stephen Feller |Kristen Dowd

Key takeaways: HHS layoffs last week gutted a CDC lab dedicated to tracking STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. The lab is only one of three in the world that performs this function. The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including gonorrhea. “The lab ... is kind of the cornerstone of much of the work that we do,” Joseph N.
Learn how to ‘heal the heart’ through compassion to live more fully

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Moira Mahoney |Kristen Dowd

Through the power of the mind-heart connection and evidence-based strategies to reduce stress and manage emotions, Just One Heart: A Cardiologist's Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness can help readers to live a fulfilling life.
Camlipixant safe, yields improvements in refractory chronic cough

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Isabella Hornick |Kristen Dowd |Jingwen Zhang

Key takeaways: Camlipixant is a P2X3 antagonist. Studied patients had a baseline awake cough frequency of at least 25 coughs per hour. Researchers noted favorable changes in 24-hour and awake cough frequency with camlipixant. Adults with refractory chronic cough who received twice-daily camlipixant had decreases in cough frequency and better scores assessing cough severity and cough-related quality of life at day 28 from baseline, according to study results.