“I’ve been sounding the alarm about it for a couple of years.” — Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine’s National School of Tropical Medicine in Houston, discussing yellow fever.
“Being safe and having little downside doesn’t mean amazing results.” — Raman Madan, MD, of Northwell Health in Glen Cove, New York, after TV personality Kelly Ripa shared her experience with butt microneedling.
“This drug was, quite surprisingly, devoid of any severe side effects.” — David Kuter, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, discussing an investigational anti-CD38 antibody for immune thrombocytopenia.
“We always think of accidental causes … but could it be something that’s just in the air?” — Priyanka Shekhawat, MD, of a Mass General Brigham facility in Dover, New Hampshire, discussing a case where incense fumes were associated with seizures in a child.
“He is on a mission, and that mission is to make vaccines less available, less affordable, and more feared.” — Paul Offit, MD, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, criticizing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposed overhauls to the federal vaccine advisory committee.
“I even had one patient whose husband had a beard, and she would make him go and take a shower to make sure there were no residual crumbs in his beard.” — Anne Lee, EdD, RDN, of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, illustrating the vigilance celiac patients often maintain to avoid gluten cross-contamination.
“While the trend of yelling ‘Jessica’ is novel, the art of redirection is not.” — Katie Lockwood, MD, MEd, of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, on a viral social media hack used to distract toddlers during tantrums.
“Incidence surpass[ed] that of same-aged males for the first time on record.” — Zishan Cui, PhD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on a post-pandemic surge in attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder diagnoses among teenage girls and young women in British Columbia.
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