Last week, as my recent lab results loaded into the patient portal, my fears came true: “No significant level of detectable measles IgG antibody.” My heart sank as I read the words. As someone who is ...
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What does it mean to be immunocompromised?
Some people have weak immune systems from birth due to genetic conditions called primary immunodeficiencies. Certain illnesses like diabetes and HIV can weaken the immune system. Medications like ...
SEATTLE – September 23, 2025 – A coalition of leading infectious disease and cancer experts is urging for the creation of a clinical trials network to evaluate the safety and efficacy of existing and ...
When it comes to questions about respiratory virus vaccination in immunocompromised children and adults, the answers may be clearer than many clinicians think, according to a panel of infectious ...
So far the government has distributed nearly 400,000 doses of Evusheld, a new drug that protects against COVID-19. Some 7 million Americans could... Hospitals use a lottery to allocate scarce COVID ...
Live-attenuated viral vaccines (LAV) have been used safely for several decades in healthy individuals to protect against diseases with great success. In immunocompromised hosts their use is usually ...
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health supported the first blood center in the U.S. to be granted full FDA approval to provide convalescent plasma to immunocompromised ...
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have shown for the first time that a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) commonly found on the skin can directly cause a form of skin cancer ...
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