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Meaghan Lee Callaghan

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Deputy Managing Editor at Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News

deputy managing editor @gastroendonews; alum @newmarkjschool, @sunyesf. she/her. 🎤📰👩‍🔬🦠🔬🌳🌎

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  • 6 days ago | idse.net | Meaghan Lee Callaghan

    By Meaghan Lee CallaghanWhen are you more likely to see a flood of positive tests for anaplasmosis? A new study by researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., shows that their local area sees a bump in the late spring, when more people are out enjoying the sunshine, lead author Taylor Ticer, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, told Infectious Disease Special Edition.

  • 1 week ago | idse.net | Meaghan Lee Callaghan

    By Meaghan Lee CallaghanGuidelines recommend that antiretroviral therapy (ART) be initiated as soon as possible after a person is diagnosed with HIV. A group of researchers from Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, decided to investigate the impacts of ART initiation on the same day someone is diagnosed with HIV, which is their standard-of-care.

  • 1 week ago | idse.net | Meaghan Lee Callaghan

    By Meaghan Lee CallaghanChlamydia trachomatis can cause long-term health complications, especially in women. Currently, the only preventative is behavioral changes, specifically safe sex practices. However, new, early research is starting to lay the groundwork for a vaccine. Study author Aakash Bhardwaj, a research technician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Infectious Disease Special Edition that his team’s work has identified targets that could help prevent C.

  • 1 week ago | idse.net | Meaghan Lee Callaghan

    By Meaghan Lee CallaghanTreating pediatric diarrhea can be a lot easier when polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are used instead of just a culture test, according to new research presented at ASM Microbe 2025. In the study, conducted at Rainbow Children’s Hospital in Hyderabad, India, pediatric patients 5 years of age and under saw more exact diagnostic results when their samples were tested with PCR— using the Altona Flexstar real-time PCR test—instead of culture.

  • 3 weeks ago | idse.net | Meaghan Lee Callaghan |Marie Rosenthal

    By Meaghan Lee Callaghan and Marie Rosenthal, MSInstead of removing the COVID-19 vaccine from the childhood immunization schedule, the CDC said parents and clinicians should use shared clinical decision-making to determine whether their healthy children should receive the primary vaccine.

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Meaghan Lee Callaghan
Meaghan Lee Callaghan @nutmeaghan
13 Feb 24

RT @gastroendonews: #ICYMI: Hear from some of the researchers we talked to in 2023! #GItwitter #LiverTwitter #microbiome #IBD @Zarrinparlab…

Meaghan Lee Callaghan
Meaghan Lee Callaghan @nutmeaghan
13 Feb 24

I'm really happy how this series has been coming out. Reach out to me if you know any GI fellows we should highlight. Talking with @Achintya_singh4 was a blast! #GITwitter #GIfellows #GIfellowship

Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News @gastroendonews

Making the shift from residency to fellowship can be challenging, but the confidence grows over time, @Achintya_singh4 told us for our video series, GI Fellows Chat. Watch the full video on our website! #GITwitter #GIfellowship @CWRU_GI https://t.co/DXcImSFEDz https://t.co/WeVv3ogSFi

Meaghan Lee Callaghan
Meaghan Lee Callaghan @nutmeaghan
5 Jan 24

Excited to read more about this! "Introduction to JAMA Climate Change and Health Series" #medtwitter #climate #health https://t.co/MGeuqRcQ90