Author: Claudinne Miller
New-Onset Allergies Another Woe for Patients With Long COVID
MedScape If your patients have been coming in with new asthma-like symptoms or sudden allergies to foods or the environment, long COVID could be to blame. In an article published in Nature Immunology last December, researchers examined immunologic and inflammatory profiles in people with long COVID, comparing blood samples from patients who fully recovered from acute SARS-CoV-2 infection with those who developed […]
Jan 28, 2026
Dozens of CDC databases aren’t being updated — most related to vaccines, study finds
NBC News The agency plays a key role in tracking disease spread and vaccination rates. Last year, it seemed to back away from some of that work, according to new research. Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health […]
Jan 28, 2026
South Carolina Measles Outbreak Becomes Largest In U.S. History Since First Elimination
Forbes South Carolina’s growing measles outbreak is now the largest in United States history since the contagious viral disease was declared eliminated more than two decades ago in the wake of widespread vaccinations, according to a report from CNN. Big Number 88%. That’s the proportion of measles cases in South Carolina that have appeared in unvaccinated individuals, according […]
Jan 28, 2026
South Carolina Is America’s New Measles Norm
The Atlantic The state’s measles outbreak could soon be bigger than West Texas’s. Are the two connected? Last year, starting in January, the United States experienced its largest documented measles outbreak in more than three decades, when an epidemic centered on West Texas sickened at least 762 people. Now a fast-moving outbreak in South Carolina […]
Jan 28, 2026
California: TB outbreak at private highschool
SF Chronicle The San Francisco Department of Public Health said Tuesday that it has identified three active cases of tuberculosis at Archbishop Riordan High School since November. Health officials did not disclose whether the three people were students, teachers, staff members or other members of the school community. The department and school leadership have implemented a coordinated […]
Jan 28, 2026
How A Mutation Made This Year’s Flu Season So Bad
Science Friday A rogue strain of flu, subclade K, has sickened more than 19 million people in the US so far this season. And the flu shot hasn’t offered that much protection. What’s going on with this superflustorm? Joining Host Flora Lichtman with some answers is Jennifer Duchon, a pediatric infectious disease specialist. Audio File
Jan 28, 2026
Scientists Inch Closer to Solving ‘Kissing Disease’ Mystery
Bloomberg Scientists have identified 22 genes that increase the risk of conditions like lupus, stroke, and rheumatoid arthritis in patients who’ve caught the virus behind mono, an illness known as the “kissing disease.” The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, tried to unravel why some people who contract the Epstein-Barr virus go on to […]
Jan 28, 2026
6 European countries lose measles elimination status: What this means
Medical News Today The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the United Kingdom and other European countries have lost their measles elimination status. This status change comes after a rise in infections across the continent. “Outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases are threats to health security in Europe, alongside antimicrobial resistance and other emerging threats,” […]
Jan 28, 2026
UK loses measles elimination status
Guardian The UK has lost its status as a measles-free country after a rise in deaths from the disease and fall in the proportion of children having the MMR jab in recent years. The World Health Organization said it no longer classified Britain as having eliminated measles because the disease had become re-established. The UK is one of six […]
Jan 28, 2026
Defying CDC, Pediatricians Recommend All Kids Get Vaccinations Against 18 Diseases
WSJ The American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations for hepatitis B, influenza and other shots buck changes made by Trump administration. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children be vaccinated against 18 diseases, more than the U.S. government directs after it overhauled its schedule. The doctors group, which released its recommendations Monday, kept its guidance largely unchanged […]
Jan 28, 2026