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Key takeaways: The CDC issued a health warning about an elevated number of cases of dengue in the U.S. this year. Suspected cases in the Americas are more than double what they were at this time last year. In March, Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency after recording 549 cases of dengue virus since the start of 2024. The number rose to more than 1,900 cases as of July 24, according to the CDC. In June, the CDC issued a health alert about an increased risk of [...]

Key takeaways: Between the 6- to 12-month and 18- to 24-month visits, more patients with fibrotic-like lesions worsened vs. improved. Requiring invasive mechanical ventilation raised odds for fibrotic lesion development. Two years after COVID-19 hospitalization, 92% of patients continued to have either non-fibrotic-like or fibrotic-like lesions on CT scans, according to results published in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas. “We believe this study [...]

CPAP use for 6 months reduced telomere shortening, or cellular aging, in men with obstructive sleep apnea compared with no CPAP use, according to study results presented at SLEEP 2023. “Considering that an important modulator of telomere maintenance is oxidative stress, and that telomere-driven replicative senescence is primarily a stress response, many cross-sectional studies have suggested an association between OSA and short telomeres,” Priscila Farias Tempaku MSc, PhD , [...]

Despite massive studies representing millions of participants that demonstrate associations between COVID-19 and autoimmune disease, whether the virus can actually cause autoimmunity remains unsettled. Among the seemingly ever-growing list of yet unanswered questions in this space is the issue of autoantibody formation during the acute phase of infection. Another concerns whether COVID-19 can cause new-onset or reactivated autoimmune disease. Yet another is whether or not these [...]