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These data suggest that a negative rapid antigen test in individuals with residualsymptoms could provide reassurance about ending isolation.

Treatment resistance affects nearly half of all young people experiencing moderate-to-severe anxiety. In this 12-week open-label trial, patients received add-on CBD after noclinical improvement on therapy with CBT and/or antidepressant medication. There wasa more than 40% reduction in mean OASIS scores and no serious or unexpectedadverse events.

Naegleria fowleri — a “free-living amoeba” and cousin of E. histolytica —enters humans not through the mouth but through the nose, and in a few, penetrates the nasal mucosa to invade the brain.

In its alert, the CDC warned doctors that these viruses circulate in the summer and fall and that they should be considered as a potential infection in an infant with fever, sepsis, or neurological symptoms.

In 2021, melatonin was the most frequently reported substance involved in pediatric substance ingestions, resulting in 4,000 hospitalizations, 287 ICU admissions, and 2 deaths in children under the age of 2. Melatonin supplements can have 500% more melatonin than indicated on the label and about 30% of OTC products tested had serotonin as well.

A comprehensive review on the widespread uptake of vaping, including its origins and history, a timeline of discoveries, terminology, epidemiology, its use as a “harm reducer,” clinical presentations of vaping lung injuries (including an overview of the 2019 EVALI outbreak), the pathophysiology of vaping-induced lung injury, clinical aspects including outcomes, COVID-19 considerations, future directions, guidelines, and questions for future research.