Viral Infection

Healio spoke with Ahmad Anouti, MD, a pediatric resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center, about a presentation at The Liver Meeting on how blocking nuclear factor kappa B could correct cellular defects in biliary atresia.

Discovery of higher GSDMB expression in children with a genetic defect linked to asthma explains why they commonly experience viral infections and face an elevated risk for asthma, according to study results.

MRIs and lumbar punctures may not provide enough therapeutic value to be standard-of-care diagnostic tests in patients suffering neurologic symptoms following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.

Children with uncontrolled asthma who visited the ED had a higher frequency of viral infections and more acute symptoms than children with controlled asthma, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.