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Using routinely collected primary and secondary care data, Karen D Coulman and colleagues investigate how access to weight management services varies across England.

Results show a high level of adherence to hydroxyurea medication is essential for lowering the incidence of negative clinical outcomes like VOCs and acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell anemia.

Between 2000 and 2016, documented cases of ASD increased as much as 500% in the New York - New Jersey metro region. The highest increase was in children without intellectual disabilities. Researchers say as many as 2 out of 3 children diagnosed with autism have no intellectual disabilities at all.

A new study displays that vaccine breakthrough COVID-19 infections are far less likely to transmit from the index patient to contacts than infections in partially or unvaccinated individuals.

The analysis identified differences between cases and controls even before COVID-19 infection, and between the incidence of CVD and diabetes over one year follow-up.