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Drug allergy: diagnosis and management of drug allergy in adults, children and young people; a look at NICE guidance

WAidid suggets a review that focuses on the reccomendations for drug adverse reactions for children and young people.
SUMMARY:All drugs have the potential to cause side effects known as adverse drug reactions (ADRs). These reactions should be differ...

Multiple inflammasome complexes are activated in autistic spectrum disorders

On the occasion of the World Autism Awareness Day, that will be celebrated on the 2nd of April, WAidid suggests the article 'Multiple inflammasome complexes are activated in autistic spectrum disorders', published on 'Brain, Behavior, and Immuni...

WHO global consultation brings together communities, nongovernmental and other civil society organizations to ramp up efforts to end TB

WAidid suggests the publication 'WHO global consultation brings together communities, nongovernmental and other civil society organizations to ramp up efforts to end TB' because. Why? As Dr Mario Raviglione (Director of WHO’s Global TB Programm...

Pharmacologic management of neuropsychiatric lupus

This week, WAidid suggests the article Pharmacologic management of neuropsychiatric lupus published this year in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology.
SUMMARY:Neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE) affects above 50% of patients with systemic lup...

State of the art: Reproduction and pregnancy in rheumatic diseases

On occasion of the 8th of March, WAidid suggests the article State of the art: Reproduction and pregnancy in rheumatic diseases published on Autoimmunity Reviews (May 2015).
SUMMARY:Throughout the last decade, increasing awarenes...

Pertussis Across the Globe: Recent Epidemiologic Trends From 2000-2013

This week WAidid suggests an article on pertussis epidemiologic trends published on June 2015 in The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.
SUMMARY:Pertussis has reemerged as a problem across the world. To better understand the nature of the resurge...

Slow Progress In Finalizing Measles And Rubella Elimination In The European Region

This week, WAidid suggests the recent article Slow Progress In Finalizing Measles And Rubella Elimination In The European Region.
SUMMARY:The WHO Regional Office for Europe has launched a number of technical and advocacy initiatives designed to...

Factor H Autoantibodies in Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Thrombosis

WAidid suggests the article published by The Journal of Rheumatology Factor H Autoantibodies in Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Thrombosis indicating that in patients with APS and recurrent venous thrombosis, there are...

Comment on: Dietary yeast reduce inﬂammation in central nerve system via microﬂora

This week, WAidid suggests an article first published online on Oct, 24th 2015; it is a Comment on the article Dietary yeast reduce inﬂammation in central nerve system via microﬂora by Takata et al., published online on D...

WHO Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection

This week WAidid suggests to read the WHO Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection. WHO recognizes the management of latent tuberculosis infection as an essential element in the implementation of the END-TB strategy and the ...

Sex and Gender Differences in Infection and Treatments for Infectious Diseases

The book suggested by WAidid gives a condensed overview to infectious diseases for which sex and gender differences are noted.
SUMMARY:This book provides an overview of the underlying sex-based and hormone-based differences in immunity, wound healin...

Recommendations for the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis

The recommendations for the diagnosis of pediatric tubercolosis in an article recently published on the European Journal of clinical microbiology & Infectious Diseases.
SUMMARY: Tuberculosis (TB) is still the world’s second most ...

Recommendations Concerning the Therapeutic Approach to Immunocompromised Children With Tuberculosis

The article suggested this week by WAidid is about the recommendations on tubercolosis in children; it appeared on Paediatric drugs on the 26th November 2015.
SUMMARY: This article describes the recommendations of a group of scie...

Clostridium difficile–associated Diarrhea in children

This week, WAidid suggests the article Risk Factors for Community-associated Clostridium difficile–associated Diarrhea in children.
SUMMARY:
Clostridium difficile -associated diarrhea (CDAD) is increasingly diagnosed in children in comm...

Is narcolepsy a classical autoimmune disease?

WAidid suggests the article appeared on Pharmacological Research Is narcolepsy a classical autoimmune disease?
SUMMARY:
Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder resulting from the lack of orexin, a neurotransmitter involved in the equilibrium between sleep a...

Vaccination with a multicomponent meningococcal B vaccine

WAidid suggests the article Vaccination with a multicomponent meningococcal B vaccine in prevention of disease in adolescents and young adults, published on Vaccine on August 2015 and available online from July 15.
SUMMARY:Adolescents and young...

Complicated skin and soft tissue infections

WAidid suggests the article appeared on BMC Infectious Diseases on February 2015: "Early response to antibiotic treatment in European patients hospitalized with complicated skin and soft tissue infections: analysis of the REACH study"
SUMM...

Immunomodulators in rheumatology

On Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, the recently published review: "Safety issues and concerns of new immunomodulators in Rheumatology"
SUMMARYIn this review, the authors describe the safety issues related to the immunosuppressive action of the biolog...

Persistent and Transient Helicobacter pylori infections in Early Childhood

This week we suggest the article recently published on "Clinical Infectious Deseases", Persistent and Transient Helicobacter pylori infections in Early Childhood
SUMMARY
Nearly 50% of the adult population worldwide is infected with Helicobacter pyl...

Antihistamine use in children

This week we suggest the article recently published on "Archive of Diseases in Childhood - Education and Practice", Antihistamine Use in Children.
SUMMARY
H(1)-antihistamines are of major therapeutic value inthe management of allergic conditions an...

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