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Use of the common maintenance drugs angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), warfarin, statins, direct-factor Xa inhibitors, and P2Y12 inhibitors was tied to lower risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death, a large US National Institutes of Health (NIH) study suggests.
The outbreaks involve the Eurasian H5N1 strain, which has led to the loss of about 26 million US birds.
A federal judge in Florida strikes down the CDC mask mandate for airline and other public transport.
"When prescription drugs are not affordable or accessible for any reason, consumers can experience lost work days, disease...
Review of 31 studies finds fatigue, memory problems, and shortness of breath are most common.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine effectiveness (VE) against infection was 5% to 7% higher when the two primary doses were given at least 7 weeks rather than 3 to 5 weeks apart, according to an observational study of hospital and community healthcare workers (HCWs) in British Columbia published late last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
In China, officials say they will help key industries resume operations in Shanghai.
Officials are probing clusters of acute hepatitis in kids, many resulting in liver failure.
Certain psychiatric disorders may predispose fully vaccinated COVID-19 survivors to reinfection.
Rates of upper airway infections (UAIs) such as croup and bacterial tracheitis among pediatric COVID-19 patients, though low, rose after the Omicron variant became dominant in December 2021, with more than one fifth of hospitalized children with both conditions developing severe illness, estimates a study today in JAMA Pediatrics.
Data from the Wellcome Monitor survey of UK citizens reveal that negative views of vaccination are tied to having poor knowledge about the role of antibiotics for treating infections, according to a study today in Vaccine.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In Shanghai, officials maintain no one has died from Omicron—an assertion being challenged.
Compared with a third dose, fourth-dose protection was 64% against severe disease and 76% against death.
Data suggest 4CMenB protection against gonorrhea and support the feasibility of a gonococcal vaccine.
In its first evaluation of COVID-19 exposures among US healthcare professionals (HCPs) over the first year of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that most HCPs were likely infected at work rather than in the community.
The CDC extends the mask order for public transit by 2 weeks and revamps international travel alerts.
Cefiderocol and ceftazidime-avibactam were selected to be part of a novel pilot project.
COVID-19 exposed existing US public health weaknesses, especially along racial lines.
Two new studies describe benefits of the monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment casirivimab-imdevimab in adult COVID-19 outpatients, both suggesting lower rates of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and death in an era dominated by the Delta variant.
