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Risk of condomless sex low if HIV-positive partner is well controlled on ART

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 21:50

Public health experts do not condone the practice, but it appears that the risk of transmission from an HIV-positive person to an uninfected sex partner during condomless sex is low if the infected...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Polyarteritis nodosa gene discovery raises new possibilities for field

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 19:00

Autosomal recessive mutations in the gene CECR1 cause an inflammatory vasculopathy with a highly varied clinical presentation that often meets the criteria for polyarteritis nodosa and can occur with...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Foods can still trigger eosinophilic esophagitis after allergy outgrown

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:45

SAN DIEGO – Seventeen of 425 children who had eosinophilic esophagitis caused by a specific food developed the condition after outgrowing the allergy to that food, a retrospective study...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Phytoestrogens may prevent, treat asthma and allergy

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:40

SAN DIEGO – Could increased consumption of phytoestrogens help prevent or treat asthma and allergy? Dr. Jessica Savage, an allergist and immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and her...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

FDA vaccines panel: Retain current strains in next season’s influenza vaccines

Posted on: 28/02/2014 - 22:25

SILVER SPRING, MD. – The trivalent and quadrivalent influenza vaccines for the 2014-2015 influenza season in the United States should retain the same strains that are included in the current season’s...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Don’t overlook the signs of psoriatic arthritis

Posted on: 25/02/2014 - 16:05

PALM BEACH, ARUBA – When evaluating patients for psoriasis, don’t forget to ask them about potential symptoms of psoriatic arthritis, cautions Dr. Mark Jackson of the University of Louisville<link...