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The patient’s blood pressure is 110/70 and his pulse is 52. Cardiac auscultation is normal. BMI is 22. The ECG shows sinus bradycardia and voltage criteria for LVH. The QT interval is 400 ms, and there is early repolarization. Review the details of the ECG and echo and determine your diagnosis.

Maternal immunization with 2 doses of vaccine was 97% and 53% effective against infant hospitalization from delta and omicron variants, respectively. The effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing infant hospitalization declined by nearly 20% after 16 weeks. Receiving the second dose in the third trimester yielded the greatest benefit.

Although children are more likely than adults to have SPD, adults can have symptoms. In adults, it’s likely the symptoms have existed since childhood, but the adult has developed management tools that hide the disorder from others. Learn more and share it with your patients.

Shift work has previously been linked to an increased risk of developing MS, presumably due to the resulting sleep deprivation and circadian desynchrony. The current study compared sleeping 7–9 hours/night during adolescence, with less than 7 hours/night and found a 40% increase in risk for developing MS in the short-sleep cohort. The authors conclude that “insufficient sleep and low sleep quality during adolescence seem to increase the risk of subsequently developing MS.”

How to get parents to agree to have their kids undergo orthokeratology (ortho-k) is covered by Cary Herzberg, OD. The key to gaining parent support for ortho-k is to pinpoint the individual obstacles and create and organize a plan of action to get beyond them. The OD must fully understand the specialty in order to achieve this, and when speaking with patients, they must build conversations and talking points.

This review summarizes current understanding of and approaches to autism spectrum disorder and emphasizes that first-line therapy focuses on behavioral interventions.