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Top January 2023 FDA Approvals
January FDA approvals include treatments for mood disorders, pertussis in infants, Alzheimer disease, and type 2 diabetes.
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Tetanus and reduced diphtheria toxoids, acellular pertussis vaccine; aluminum phosphate adsorbed; susp for IM inj; contains 2-phenoxyethanol and traces of formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde.
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This Year’s RSV Surge: Bigger, Earlier, and Affecting Older Patients Than Previous Seasonal Outbreaks
Although this year’s ultra-high rates of RSV hospitalizations have recently fallen, the tripledemic of RSV, COVID-19, and influenza continues throughout the holiday season.
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ACOG supports pertussis vaccine schedule for pregnant women
The ACOG has endorsed the CDC's updated guidelines for administering pertussis vaccine during each pregnancy.
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Pertussis still common in kids with persistent cough
Among kids at several UK general practices, 20% had evidence of recent pertussis infection.
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Protection better with whole-cell pertussis vaccine
Teens who received DTaP were six times more likely to get pertussis during the 2010-2011 California outbreak than those given DTwP.
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Rising to the challenge of pertussis persistence
Unimmunized infants are at greatest risk for the potentially serious, even fatal, complications of this disease. New prevention measures are available. In 1976, when 1,010 cases of pertussis were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was the lowest annual total ever recorded.1 By 2004, however, that number had risen to…
Consultations
When to swab for pertussis
When should an adult with a spasmodic upper-respiratory infection be swabbed for pertussis?
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2012 U.S. pertussis rates expected to reach record level
During the first six months of 2012, Washington state reported 2,520 pertussis cases -- a 1,300% increase from the first six months of 2011, the CDC reports.
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Pertussis mutations may explain whooping cough epidemic
Analyses reveal 2011-2012 U.S. pertussis isolates were negative for pertactin, a virulence factor that is a component of the current accellular vaccine.
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