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In a new study, researchers examined the association between a vegetarian diet and growth, micronutrients, and lipids among healthy children.

The century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is one of the world's oldest and most widely used vaccines, used to immunize 100 million newborns every year. Given in countries with endemic TB, it has surprisingly been found to protect newborns and young infants against multiple bacterial and viral infections unrelated to TB. There's even some evidence that it can reduce severity of COVID-19.

Metabolite and lipid profile changes in the century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine provide clues for its protective nature.

Results from a Canadian longitudinal cohort found no clinically meaningful differences in height, growth, or biochemical measures of nutrition in young children on vegetarian and nonvegetarian diets.

Christopher R. Sudfeld and colleagues evaluate the benefit of multiple micronutrient supplementation and medium‐quantity lipid‐based nutrient supplementation in pregnancy on child development in rural Niger.

A new position statement from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions suggests best practices for this increasingly widespread alternative access route.

Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were 20% more likely to have a prolonged hospital stay and 28% less likely to have a routine home discharge, compared with patients who did not have SLE.

On top of statin therapy, icosapent ethyl provides mortality reductions in patients with prior MI.

A new study describes the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on host lipid metabolism.

All cases of type 1 diabetes are not the same. New evidence highlights important differences between patients with a hereditary vs sporadic background to the disorder.