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Heavy parasitemia in babesiosis treated without adjunctive red cell exchange
https://www.trasci.com/article/S1473-0502(19)30119-3/fulltext Comment; Maybe we can approach exchange transfusion more slowly and rely more on antimicrobial and other supportive treatments.
The New Bad Tick Is Going to Take Over Half the United States, Study Finds
https://gizmodo.com/the-new-bad-tick-is-going-to-take-over-half-the-united-1831079855 Comment; A new tick species invading North America that hosts a new virus--Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS). Ed Cara12/13/18 4:10pmFiled to: TICKS115.8K772 An...
INFECTED DEER TICKS MOVING INTO NEW YORK CITY
http://danielcameronmd.com/infected-deer-ticks-moving-into-new-york-city/ Comment; Urbanized deer ticks in the big apple! Greatest risk with parks that have vegetated connecting pathways allowing migration of deer and passerine birds may aid in tick dispersement. In...
Protozoan Parasite Babesia microti Subverts Adaptive Immunity and Enhances Lyme Disease Severity
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01596/full Comment; The perfect storm, Babesiosis with Lyme co-infection; Lyme is accelerated by the Babesia. Next we'll need to see the mechanism of action and look for a defense against this synergistic attack....
House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-orders-pentagon-report-whether-weaponized-ticks Comment; It would be great to see what really happened--but I highly doubt that this will EVER happen! The order requires the agency to say if it experimented with insects for...
Single Core Genome Sequencing for Detection of both Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato and Relapsing Fever Borrelia Species
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/10/1779 Comment; What a great way to make accurate & early diagnosis! Nucleic acid probes can be done quickly, costs for them are coming down as the volume of the testing increases. This could be a game-changer, further increasing...
Does marijuana hurt or help your brain? Scientists rush to study the drug’s impact
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/does-marijuana-hurt-or-help-your-brain-scientists-rush-to-study-the-drugs-impact Comment; "...weed is as much about shades of gray as it is about green." Indeed. From what I've seen thus far, am not a fan of recreational legalization,...
Researchers reveal lack of evidence for drugs prescribed to treat chronic pain in children
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uob-rrl062519.php Comment; Study from the UK showing that we don't have clear evidence that kids are getting adequate pain relief. What about clinical judgement? I guess that's inadequate in the UK? UNIVERSITY OF...
Predicting development of adolescent drinking behaviour from whole brain structure at 14 years of age
https://elifesciences.org/articles/44056 Comment; I'll be surprised if this is proven to provide long-term accuracy; I believe it's an extremely simplistic look at a very complex problem that affects numerous other regions of the brain as the GABA receptors that...
Alcohol’s Secondhand Harms in the United States: New Data on Prevalence and Risk Factors
https://www.jsad.com/doi/10.15288/jsad.2019.80.273 Comment; Observations and documentation of what is obvious to many if not most of us. Quantitation would have been more useful. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 80(3), 273–281 (2019). ...
Change in moderate alcohol consumption and quality of life: evidence from 2 population-based cohorts
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/27/E753 Comment; Interesting that with women who stop drinking, baseline mental health status is obtained in as little as 4 years for US & Chinese populations. Xiaoxin I. Yao, Michael Y. Ni, Felix Cheung, Joseph T....
Disulfiram–breakthrough drug for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases?
https://www.lymedisease.org/disulfiram-kinderlehrer/ Comment; So many unexpected agents seem to have activity against these pathogens, Daptomycin, Disulfiram, what next? Diagnosis is still difficult, at least we have various treatment options. By Daniel A....
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