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Keeping someone’s immune response damped down is necessary when someone gets an organ transplant, but Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, says it may also allow the virus to remain active for prolonged periods of time. Segev: In …

If people who have compromised immune systems become infected with Covid, the virus may persist for prolonged periods, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Organ transplant recipients are on medicines to keep their immune response in check, and so are many others: people with so called autoimmune disease like lupus, or some people with asthma. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, says …

Suppressed immune systems are more common than you may think, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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People who receive organ transplants must go on a regimen of drugs to suppress their immune response and allow the organ to survive and function. Yet when that strategy is working it also leaves people without the ability to respond …

Regimens to suppress immune system function are a double-edged sword, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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People who’ve gotten transplants such as kidneys take drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the organ, called immunosuppression, but also damp down their response to vaccinations, a big issue during the pandemic. Now a new study is examining …

A new study aims to help vaccines work better in people who’ve had a transplant, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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1.2 million overdose deaths by 2029 in North America. That’s the sobering projection of a recent Lancet study. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, says an all encompassing strategy beginning early in life makes sense to …

Prevention of substance abuse will require a multipronged approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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1.2 million deaths. No, that’s not due to Covid-19, but is the projection of a recent Lancet study on drug overdoses in North America by 2029 if current practices remain in place, including those intending to help. Substance use disorders …

Stemming the tide of overdose death may require a rebuild of how we think about the problem, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Trying to clean up street drugs used to mean interdiction, where authorities would search and seize imported cocaine or heroin, for example. Johns Hopkins substance use disorder expert Eric Strain says things are different now, and even trying to slow …

When street drugs are synthetic interdiction is much more challenging, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »