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Reports on the Vaccine Safety Datalink flagged the need to investigate a potential increased risk those 65 years of age and older, for ischemic stroke in the first 21 days after receiving the bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech booster. FDA has parallel monitoring systems to confirm or fail to validate a safety signal. In this case, those other systems did not confirm the Vaccine Safety Datalink flag.

This 62-year-old man had a lung transplant 3 years previously for IPF and is on tacrolimus, mycophenolate, and prednisone. Which therapy is most appropriate for their zoster outbreak? IV acyclovir Oral famciclovir Oral valacyclovir Herpes zoster vaccine

Sunlenca (lenacapavir), which comes in 300 mg tablets and a 463.5 mg/1.5 mL injection, provides doctors with a long-needed twice-yearly option for patients with complicated past treatment histories who would otherwise have few treatment options.

Are the findings a result of bacterial endocarditis? Resurgent sarcoidosis? An opportunistic fungal pulmonary invasion? Review the workup and cast your vote on what you think the diagnosis is.

The updated AAP guidance “recommends programmatic consideration of providing more than 5 consecutive doses of palivizumab depending on the duration of the current RSV surge in a given region of the country.”

Anthony Fauci, MD, reflects on the surprising and dramatic challenges faced by a medical specialty that was in the 1960s and up to the late ’70s predicted to be destined for obsolescence.