Outbreak of perichondritis associated with ear piercings and a contaminated water system.

In September 2023, the UK Health Security Agency's (UKHSA) South West Health Protection Team received notification of patients with perichondritis. All five cases had attended the same cosmetic piercing studio and a multi-disciplinary outbreak control investigation was subsequently initiated. An additional five cases attending the same studio were found.

Disseminated Kaposi Sarcoma in a Patient With Hematemesis: A Case Report.

Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a soft tissue tumor primarily occurring in immunosuppressed patients and, although it has been described, dissemination of KS is rare. This case involves a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and biopsy-proven cutaneous KS presenting with hematemesis suspected due to gastrointestinal involvement in whom endoscopy with biopsy was contraindicated due to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) and the hypervascular nature of KS tumors. Alternatively, the diagnosis was made via macroscopic findings on bronchoscopy, which demonstrated neovascular lesions, confirming visceral KS.

Classification of accommodative insufficiency by monocular subjective push-up test is poorly predictive of monocular objective amplitudes in children and young adults.

Introduction: To determine whether classification of accommodative insufficiency (AI) based on the subjective push-up test is indicative of reduced amplitude measured objectively.

Methods: Monocular subjective accommodative amplitude was measured in participants 7-24 years of age with the push-up test; a 0.9 mm letter was moved towards the eye until first sustained blur occurred.

Unexplained Infant Deaths Without Unsafe Sleep Factors: 2011 to 2020.

Objectives: To describe sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs) occurring in safe sleep environments and explore differences in selected characteristics.

Methods: We examined SUID from 22 jurisdictions from 2011 to 2020 and classified them as unexplained, no unsafe sleep factors (U-NUSF). Data were derived from the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry, a population-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance system built on the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention's child death review program.