Sublingual Vaccine Shows Promise in Women With Recurrent UTIs
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- A sublingual vaccine not only reduced the risk of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women, it also appeared to enable a significant number of these women to be completely UTI-free, according to a North... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - May 1, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
BCG Vaccine Flops Again for COVID-19 Prevention
(MedPage Today) -- Another large randomized trial testing a bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine as a means of thwarting COVID-19 failed to show any benefit, researchers reported.
In the multinational BRACE study, healthcare workers were... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Public Health: Lack of Trust, Loss of Workers
(MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of an Instagram Live event where Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, incoming dean of the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, discuss... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Myasthenia Gravis Tied to Elevated Risk for Severe COVID
(MedPage Today) -- People with myasthenia gravis were at higher risk for severe cases of COVID-19, including infections leading to hospitalization and death, a Canadian population-based study showed.
Among people in Ontario during the first year... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 25, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Helmet CPAP Leads Noninvasive Ventilation Therapies for Acute Respiratory Failure
(MedPage Today) -- The available noninvasive oxygenation strategies varied in their effectiveness in treating acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF), according to a meta-analysis of randomized trials.
Helmet continuous positive airway pressure... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Kids' Epilepsy Tied to Group B Strep Meningitis, not Sepsis, in Infancy
(MedPage Today) -- Epilepsy in early childhood was significantly elevated among those infected in early infancy with invasive Group B Streptococcus (iGBS) meningitis, but not in those with iGBS sepsis, according to a matched cohort study out of... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
CDC Backs Extra Bivalent Booster for High-Risk Groups, Simplifies Vax Recs
(MedPage Today) -- The CDC on Wednesday endorsed an additional dose, or doses, of the bivalent COVID vaccine for high-risk groups, while streamlining recommendations for most other groups.
In step with the FDA's updated emergency use authorizations... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 20, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Long COVID Neuro Symptoms May Be Shaped By Exposure to Other Coronaviruses
(MedPage Today) -- People with neurologic post-COVID sequelae showed immunologic imprinting from other common coronaviruses, suggesting that "original antigenic sin" -- immune responses shaped by an initial exposure to a related pathogen -... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Second Omicron Booster Authorized
(MedPage Today) -- Certain groups are now eligible for another dose of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, and the updated shots have now fully replaced the monovalent shots, the FDA announced.
The agency scrapped the emergency use authorizations ... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
COVID and Aspergillus Are Dangerous Bedfellows
(MedPage Today) -- These days, invasive fungal pathogens are making medical news -- as well they should.
In Fall 2022, a World Health Organization (WHO) report named 19 key fungal threats, thus creating the agency's first-ever "fungal priority... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Drug Hints at Benefit for Long COVID Fatigue in Small Trial
(MedPage Today) -- An investigational therapy for long COVID failed to improve measures of mitochondrial function in a small randomized study, but the oral drug did show potential for easing patients' fatigue.
Four weeks of treatment with the... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 15, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Accumulates in the Skull and Brain
(MedPage Today) -- SARS-CoV-2 spike protein persisted in the skull and brain, mouse and human autopsy data showed.
In mouse models and human postmortem samples, SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was found in the skull marrow, meninges, and parenchyma... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 14, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Bears and Blood Clots; Acquitted Husel Sues for $20M; Church Fined Over COVID Rules
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Ever wonder why hibernating bears don't get blood clots? Scientists say they now know why. (Science News)
Young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children could soon... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 14, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Cases of Vision-Threatening Clots Rare After COVID Shot, Study Finds
(MedPage Today) -- Credit: Community Eye Health
Retinal vascular occlusion (RVO) did not occur more frequently in the 3 weeks following administration of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine compared with influenza and tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 14, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Long COVID Patients on Dialysis See Elevated Oxidative Stress Markers
(MedPage Today) -- AUSTIN, Texas -- Oxidative stress markers were elevated in dialysis patients with long COVID, data from a cross-sectional cohort showed.
The study included 63 patients on hemodialysis who tested positive for COVID-19, including... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
