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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To develop and externally validate a simple risk score for influenza diagnosis based only on vaccination history and patient-reported symptoms. Results: We developed a risk score with 6 items (subjective fever, interfered with usual activity, headache, wheeze, phlegm, and recent flu vaccine) and a range from -5 to 6 points.

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World’s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos

Physician's Weekly

Even the websites that publish new evidence on cancer treatment and diagnosis aren’t being updated, because HHS fired workers who managed them. Cancer research, with multiple NCI-funded breakthroughs in genetics and immunotherapy, has sidestepped the political minefields around other public health issues, like vaccination.