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    CNN (7/7, Howard, Enriquez) reports, “The spread of the Delta coronavirus variant in the United States has many experts questioning whether it should be time to start testing even vaccinated people for the virus.” The CDC’s current guidance “says fully va...
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  • Bezlotoxumab Associated With Decreased Risk For Recurrent CDI Among Transplant Recipients, Study Finds

    Infectious Disease Advisor (7/7, Nye) reports, “Bezlotoxumab was found to be associated with decreased risk for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) among patients having undergone solid organ or hematopoietic cell transplantation,” research...
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  • Arterolane-Piperaquine-Mefloquine Combination Noninferior To Dual Therapies In Uncomplicated Malarial Infection In Children, Study Says

    Infectious Disease Advisor (7/7, Lee) reports that in a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases “the efficacy of arterolane-piperaquine-mefloquine was found to be noninferior to that of arterolane-piperaquine and artemether-lumefantrine for the...
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  • Genetic Alterations Of ALK In Patients With High-Risk Neuroblastoma Demonstrated Utility As Independent Predictors Of Poorer Survival, Study Finds

    Healio (7/7, Lawrence) reports, “Genetic alterations of ALK, including clonal mutations and amplifications, in high-risk neuroblastoma demonstrated utility as independent predictors of poorer survival, according to a study.” The findings were published in...
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  • Early Cases Of COVID-19 Traced To Wuhan Markets Mirror SARS Origin In Animals, Paper Suggests

    Bloomberg (7/7, Gale) reports new research indicates that early cases of COVID-19 “traced to markets in Wuhan, China, mirror the initial spread of SARS 17 years earlier.” The authors conclude “that an animal contagion is the most likely explanation for th...
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  • Chronic Hepatitis B Not Associated With Increased Acute Liver Injury Incidence, Death Among Patients With COVID-19, Findings Show

    Healio (7/7, Burba) reports, “Chronic hepatitis B virus, whether current or past, was not associated with increased incidence of acute liver injury or death among patients with COVID-19,” researchers concluded after analyzing data from 5,693 patients with...
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  • Nearly 40% Of Patients Who Shared Hospital Room With Patient With SARS-CoV-2 Became Infected Within 14 Days, Study Finds

    Healio (7/7, Dreisbach) reports, “Nearly 40% of patients who shared a hospital room with a patient with SARS-CoV-2 at one Boston hospital became infected within 14 days, according to” researchers who “analyzed SARS-CoV-2 transmission among 11,290 patients...
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  • Americans Living With HIV Have Life Spans Similar To Peers Without The Virus, Data Indicate

    HealthDay (7/7, Murez) reports a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine “shows that Americans who have HIV today have life spans similar to those of their peers without the virus.” Researchers “used U.S. federal statistics to examine death rat...
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  • HIV PrEP Uptake Disparities Worsened From 2014 To 2018, Study Finds

    Healio (7/7, Stulpin) reports “increasing disparities in HIV PrEP uptake between early and late adopting states between 2014 and 2018,” according to retrospective study results published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Overall, results showed “worsenin...
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  • Lyra COVID-19 Assay Test Recalled Due To Risk Of False Negative Results

    CNBC (7/7, Mendez) reports diagnostic healthcare products manufacturer Quidel “is recalling its Lyra Covid-19 Assay test due to a high risk of false negative results.” The test was previously “given emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Adminis...
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  • Delta Coronavirus Variant Quickly Spreading Throughout The US

    Politico (7/6, Lim, Banco) reports that new CDC data show the Delta COVID-19 variant “accounted for more than half of the coronavirus cases in the U.S. between June 20 and July 3.” The agency “told POLITICO surveillance data indicated the Delta variant ju...
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  • APOE ε4 Allele May Be Tied To Clinical Expression, Biomarkers Of Alzheimer’s Disease In People With Down Syndrome, Research Suggests

    MedPage Today (7/6, George) reports, “The APOE ε4 allele was linked to clinical expression and biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome,” investigators concluded. In the “dual-center cohort study,” researchers found that “among 464 a...
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  • Cranial Ultrasound Finds Lenticulostriate Vasculopathy More Frequent In Infants Exposed To Zika Virus, Researchers Say

    Aunt Minnie (7/6, Allegretto) reports, “Cranial ultrasound found lenticulostriate vasculopathy to be” nine times “more common in infants exposed to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, according to” researchers who wrote in Radiology, “Our results demonstrate a...
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  • Specific Gene Profiles Of BAL Cells May Be Tied To Phenotypic Manifestations Of Sarcoidosis, Research Suggests

    Pulmonology Advisor (7/6, Aghjayan) reports, “Specific gene profiles of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells are associated with phenotypic manifestations of sarcoidosis such as activity and disease severity, including immune, inflammatory, and profibrotic...
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  • Experts Concerned About More COVID-19 Variants Emerging From Less Vaccinated US Regions

    CNN (7/6, Holcombe) reports health experts are concerned about outbreaks in regions of the US with lower rates of vaccination against COVID-19 as some states – including Arkansas, Missouri, and Wyoming – experience spikes due to the Delta variant. Accordi...
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  • COVID-19 Cases On The Rise In Almost Half Of US States, Analysis Shows

    The Hill (7/6, Schnell) reports “COVID-19 cases are trending upward in nearly half of all states in the U.S., according to a new analysis of Johns Hopkins University data by USA Today.” COVID-19 cases “in Alaska and Arkansas more than doubled in the last...
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  • Patients With HIV Who Inject Drugs See Viral Suppression Decline, Results Show

    Infectious Disease Advisor (7/6, Aghjayan) reports, “In an intervention for antiretroviral treatment (ART) and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, people with HIV who inject drugs were found to later experience a decline in viral suppression, which refle...
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  • Gilead Seeking FDA Approval For Investigational Long-Acting HIV Treatment Lenacapavir

    Healio (7/6, Downey) reports, “Gilead Sciences submitted a new drug application to the FDA for the approval of lenacapavir, an investigational, long-acting HIV-1 capsid inhibitor that is given subcutaneously every 6 months.” Key six-month data for the dru...
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  • Suicide Risk Appears To Be 100 Times Higher Among Patients Living With HIV/AIDS, Systematic Review Indicates

    HealthDay (7/6, Mozes) reports research indicates that “many people living with HIV/AIDS still face a dramatically higher risk for suicide.” Investigators arrived at that conclusion after conducting “a review of 40 studies that involved a total of roughly...
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  • Biden Marks Progress Against COVID-19 Pandemic While Highlighting Remaining Challenges

    The New York Times (7/4, Montague) reported on July 4, a day “President Biden had long anticipated as a milestone in the fight against the coronavirus, the White House hosted a celebration to both commemorate the July 4 holiday and herald the administrati...
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