Novel Short-Duration TB Treatment Fizzles
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- Most patients with tuberculosis (TB) who received a treatment regimen that included the repurposed leprosy drug clofazimine converted to negative sputum cultures after 12 weeks, but a substantial proportion went on... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Experts Can ’ t Agree If We ’ re Still in a Pandemic
As a health journalist, I’ve written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times than I care to count in the four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) first used that term on March 11, 2020. But lately, the word “pandemic” has given me pause.
Maybe you’ve noticed it too: these days, a lot of people refer to the pandemic in the past tense. “During COVID,” they say, or, “when we were in the pandemic.” The implication is that the virus is gone and the pandemic is over.
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The former is clearly untrue. The ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Once-Weekly ART Showed Similar Efficacy for HIV as Daily ART
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- A once-weekly oral antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen of the investigational drug islatravir, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitor, with lenacapavir (Sunlenca) showed similar efficacy to daily... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Triplet Regimen Shortens Effective TB Treatment
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- Combining the investigational drug quabodepistat with established anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs delamanid and bedaquiline resulted in comparable efficacy over 4 months as a standard four-drug regimen over 6 months... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
'After Emily's death, it became personal'. As it's warned superbugs will claim ten million lives, meet the NHS tsar who's on a mission to beat the deadly infections that killed her goddaughter
Emily Hoyle, 38, passed away in 2022 after contracting a drug-resistant lung infection. Dame Sally Davies is sharing her story to raise awareness of the threat posed by superbugs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: At the 68th Commission On Status of Women UNAIDS Calls for Action to Achieve Gender Equality and End Aids
[UNAIDS] Geneva/New York -- UNAIDS is gearing up for the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68) which begins today and will run until 22 March 2024. #CSW68, the United Nations largest annual gathering on gender equality and women's empowerment, is being held this year under the priority theme, Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Women and Gender Source Type: news
COVID Virus Can Remain in the Body Over a Year COVID Virus Can Remain in the Body Over a Year
Scientists found COVID antigens in the blood for up to 14 months after infection and in tissue samples for more than 2 years after infection.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - March 11, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
China Disease Control and Prevention Head: Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Remain Grim Tasks
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Head of China Disease Control and Prevention warns of ongoing risk of sudden new infectious diseases
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Once-Daily HIV Oral Alternative Advances New Once-Daily HIV Oral Alternative Advances
The single-pill combination of bictegravir-lenacapavir shows good virologic suppression and tolerability in a 2-year clinical trial; about 8% of people with HIV are still on complex regimens.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - March 9, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV/AIDS Source Type: news
‘I’m never going to be Tony’: Jeanne Marrazzo, Anthony Fauci’s successor, vows a new direction at NIAID
When Jeanne Marrazzo started her residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in 1988, the world was a very different place. Marrazzo provided care for dying AIDS patients—mainly gay men and intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. “Stigma was alive and well and thriving, and in fact, really, really ugly at the time,” Marrazzo told an audience of young scientists on 3 March in Denver, just before the start of an HIV/AIDS conference. “You really sometimes had to work hard to get your patients what you needed. That made me interested in political and scientific advocacy and activism very early on.”
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Source: ScienceNOW - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Rapid PCR Tests for Pneumonia in the ED Speed Up Targeted Treatment
(MedPage Today) -- For people with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the emergency department (ED), routine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing on lower respiratory tract samples led to faster and more targeted treatment, according... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Africa Accounts for 95 Percent of Malaria Deaths Globally - WHO
[Premium Times] According to the WHO, the African region is home to 11 countries that carry approximately 70 per cent of the global burden of malaria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Rural Tajik Woman's Road to Empowering Women Living With HIV
[IPS] Bratislava -- This feature is part of a series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Women and Gender Source Type: news
RSV Therapy Curbs Infant Hospitalizations, CDC Study Shows RSV Therapy Curbs Infant Hospitalizations, CDC Study Shows
(Corrects typo in CDC agency ' s name in paragraph 1)Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - March 7, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
