vaccine; vaccines

Study in JAMA Shows Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children

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Study in JAMA Shows Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children

Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new study in medicine. I’m Dr. F. Perry Wilson, Yale School of Medicine. It was only three years ago that we called the pathogen we now refer to as coronavirus “nCOV-19.” It was, in many ways, more descriptive than what we have today. The … Read more

The Mortality Risk of Infections in Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

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The Mortality Risk of Infections in Patients with Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

Dr. Borja De Miguel MADRID, ESP. “We must not forget that the main cause of mortality in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases is infections, ahead of the disease activity itself,” he commented to Medscape in Spanish Dr. Borja De Miguel Campo, specialist in internal medicine at the Autoimmune and Systemic Diseases Unit of the 12 … Read more