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The report from the Access to Medicine Foundation calls responsible antibiotic manufacturing both a "moral imperative" and a business priority.
COVID-19 ICU admissions decreased for preschoolers, but the need for mechanical ventilation in hospitalized children that age remained steady.
Only 35% of the 80 studied long-COVID signs and symptoms became nonsignificant 2 years after infection among hospitalized veterans.
FDA's approval is for use of the vaccine, called Abrysvo, at 32 to 36 weeks gestational age of pregnancy.
The BA.2.86 sequence was from Virginia, and the patient had traveled from Japan and was asymptomatic.
Of the funding, $1 billion goes to 4 BARDA research partners to support phase 2b clinical trials of vaccine candidates.
A deep-learning model can evaluate chest x-rays to predict whether COVID-19 patients will need intensive care.
The risk of excess death was highest on days 0 to 90 after infection and was elevated sixfold.
While the exact cause of hypertension is unknown, it is possible that SARS-CoV-2 causes cardiac dysfunction and blood pressure dysregulation via the ACE2 receptors.
The vaccine effectiveness of 4CMenB in fully immunized children was 95% using the screening method and 92% using the case-control method.
The patient, who lives near Washington, DC, was hospitalized and is recovering.
Officials say the rapid appearance in multiple countries in people without travel histories suggests established international spread.
Early during COVID-19, school closures were likely linked to a surge in mental health crises among 11- to 17-year-old adolescents.
The case incidence per 1 million person-days was 90 before the Delta variant, 304 during Delta, and more than 1,000 during Omicron.
Overall, the antibiotic prescribing rate was 53% in the testing group and 55% in the control group.
Illness onsets began in October 2022, and two outbreak strains are involved.
Experts are watching impacts from viruses that have the F456L mutation, while tracking the emergence of the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant.
One study found hospitalization was lower among older adults who received the vaccine, while another found significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in vaccine uptake.
The risk of developing venous thromboembolisms is elevated among cancer patients with COVID-19 taking anticancer drugs, new data show.
All new cases involve vaccine-derived strains, including the first of the year in Burundi and Guinea.
