Is there a vaccine against RSV? After nearly 60 years, many potential candidates came at the same time

Published Date: 02 Mar 2023

You may not have heard of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). However, it killed more than 100,000 people worldwide in 2019, making it the leading cause of death among children under the age of one.

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A 5-day-old girl born at 23 weeks’ gestation was evaluated in the neonatal intensive care unit for a skin lesion on the back. What’s the diagnosis?

Experts say clinicians should reassure pregnant patients that inhaled corticosteroids are safe and emphasize the risks of stopping treatment.

A federal lawsuit challenges the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines, alleging that conflicts of interest and a secretive process violated federal law.

Tracking living kidney donors for 5 years reveals that nearly all maintain normal-to-high self-esteem after donation, with those having lower baseline self-esteem experiencing modest improvements.

A careful pet history can point to infections ranging from Bartonella and Pasteurella to toxoplasmosis, ringworm, and, rarely, rabies.

Ipilimumab and tremelimumab block the same checkpoint but were engineered differently. When one succeeded where the other failed in the clinic, experts called the reason unresolved.

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