Bird Flu: 'We Are All Over It,' CDC Director Says
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Although the risk to humans is very low, the case of the Texas farmworker apparently contracting pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) from a cow illustrates the importance of data collection, CDC Director Mandy... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Flu Vaccine Uptake Tripled With Simple Promotion
(MedPage Today) -- A few simple interventions boosted flu vaccine uptake for patients waiting at the emergency department [ED], according to the cluster-randomized, controlled PROFLUVAXED trial.
People in ED waiting areas who consented to view... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 2, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
COVID's Silver Lining; 'I Could Kill Someone'; Measles or MMR Detection?
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The COVID-19 pandemic has a scientific silver lining: a rare opportunity to watch our immune system develop defenses against a novel pathogen in real time. (STAT... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 29, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
New Tuberculosis Framework May Improve Research, Clinical Care
(MedPage Today) -- A new framework may better characterize the early stages of tuberculosis (TB) and improve research and clinical care, an international team of researchers said.
Turning against the current "active" or "latent" classification... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 27, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Inappropriate Dx of Pneumonia Common in Hospitalized Adults
(MedPage Today) -- About one in eight diagnoses of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalized adults are inappropriate, a prospective cohort study involving Michigan hospitals found.
In total, 12% of the more than 17,000 patients treated... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Lower Oxygen Targets May Be Preferable for COVID Patients in the ICU
(MedPage Today) -- Lower oxygenation targets for critically ill COVID patients with severe hypoxemia led to significantly more days alive and off life support, a randomized trial conducted at nearly a dozen intensive care units (ICUs) in Europe... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 21, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Electronic Nudges to Get the Flu Shot Fall Short for Vax Rates, Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Electronic nudges sent to patients failed to increase influenza vaccine uptake in one randomized clinical trial, while another trial found that slight increases in vaccination rates from letters emailed to patients failed to... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 19, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How Often Should Immunocompromised People Get a COVID Booster?
(MedPage Today) -- Preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunocompromised people hasn't gotten any easier as the pandemic trundles on into its fifth year.
The monoclonal antibody tixagevimab-cilgavimab (Evusheld) has long gone by the wayside for... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 18, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How HHS Plans to Fight Increases in Syphilis, Maternal Mortality
(MedPage Today) -- fIn this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Admiral Rachel Levine, MD, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), about how HHS... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Paul Alexander Thrived for Decades in an Iron Lung After Contracting Polio in 1952
(MedPage Today) -- Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life, built a big following on social... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Published Data Show Why GSK Bailed on Its Maternal RSV Vaccine
(MedPage Today) -- GSK's abandoned maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine protected infants from severe RSV, final results of a phase III trial indicated, but those positive outcomes came at the expense of an unexplained higher risk... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 14, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Most People With TB Report No Persistent Cough
(MedPage Today) -- A significant proportion of people in the community with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have subclinical disease, according to a meta-analysis involving survey studies across Africa and Asia.
In adjusted analyses, 82.8% (95% CI... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Dapivirine Vaginal Ring, Oral PrEP Safe for HIV Prevention in Pregnancy
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- The monthly dapivirine ring to reduce risk of HIV in women showed similar safety outcomes as oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) when used throughout the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, according to a phase... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 12, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
A Health System in Critical Condition
(MedPage Today) -- When I started keeping a detailed diary in February 2020, I was a pediatric surgery fellow at one of New York City's top hospitals in the home stretch of nearly a decade of medical training. I had just signed the contract for... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - March 12, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
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
