🚨 Updated CDC data: Covid hospitalization rates continued to rise. 📈 👉 4.6 per 100,000 people were hospitalized during the week of August 4-10. This crucial, yet lagging indicator hasn’t been this high since February 2024 cdc.gov/resp-net/dashb…

400 million reasons to care about #LongCovid ICYMI: our review on #LongCovid in Nature Medicine Long Covid has affected at least 400 million people worldwide at a cost of $1 trillion per year. #LongCovid is a defining health crisis of our time! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Landmark Case 🇬🇧 reported in Lancs Live by Amy Fenton A #forklift truck driver can pursue a claim of disability discrimination after a judge ruled #LongCovid left him #disabled. lancs.live/news/lancashir… #Disability #Discrimination Jane Ryan Long Covid Support 🌍 Dr Elisa Perego

Morning Ed Balls There are 112k children with #LongCovid in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Office for National Statistics (ONS) Have you ever heard #LongCovid discussed in any conversation about school absence? ❌nope me either. 🧩 #LongCovidKids #Disability #Education

Inflammation, Cholesterol, Lipoprotein(a), and 30-Year Cardiovascular Outcomes in Women | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…. - high CRP, LDL cholesterol, and lipoprotein(a) levels among healthy U.S. women was predictive of cardiovascular events during 30y

Postdoctoral position open!!! Come and join Camilla Engblom lab Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and CMM. Outstanding project and mentorship! Check it out! 👇 ki.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…

Online now: Autoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells acquire an exhausted phenotype and persist in human antigen-specific autoimmune diseases dlvr.it/TCjl4b

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We are delighted that two of our members have been honoured in the Royal Society Awards! Congratulations on your wonderful achievement! 👏

The advances in cell therapy and achieving immune tolerance are laying the foundations for a cure for Type 1 diabetes in the future. This is a new and exceptional review of the field nature.com/articles/s4157… Grattoni lab Nature Reviews Endocrinology

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New paper out nature - why are males more vulnerable to severe infections (ex acute #COVID), while females suffer more from autoimmunity (SLE, MS etc and also #LongCovid)? sex chromosomes or hormones? Here we studied adaptation of human immune systems to gender-affirming

Immunological studies in trans-individuals undergoing gender affirming hormone therapy dlvr.it/TCqNXv

What slows or speeds brain aging? This is just 1 of 10 recent papers in today's nature nature.com/articles/d4158… This one along with the others are reviewed in the new Ground Truths, link in my profile

A woman with aggressive refractory systemic lupus erythematosus was treated with a short course of the bispecific antibody teclistamab (anti–B-cell maturation antigen and anti-CD3) and had a drug-free complete remission. Full correspondence: nej.md/3Th6ewX

Vaccine hesitancy was recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the top ten threats to global health even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article on a targeted approach to vaccine hesitancy: oxford.ly/3X1FcvO Danny Altmann

A start for a human "immunome," integrating omics and A.I., to quantify the health and status of a person's immune system Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159… nature.com/articles/s4159… John Tsang Carola Vinuesa The Crick

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A few papers coming out this week for #ERS2024 😀 Starting with A systematic literature review of the clinical and socioeconomic burden of bronchiectasis Bronchiectasis imposes a massive burden on patients, families and healthcare. New therapies needed! err.ersjournals.com/content/33/173…

Characteristics and predictors of Long Covid in children: a 3-year prospective cohort study - eClinicalMedicine thelancet.com/journals/eclin…