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A quality improvement initiative at a Denver health system was associated with significantly reduced antibiotic prescribing for pediatric conjunctivitis.
The agreement is a major step in efforts to bridge global gaps in access to critically needed, innovative antibiotics.
The patients are from a part of India where cases were reported in 2018 and 2021.
Of the 399 cases with information on probable transmission routes, 95.2% identified sexual contact, 3.3% cited nonsexual contact, and 0.5% reported healthcare-associated spread.
COVID-19 brought a glut of scientific literature, especially through preprint servers such as medRxiv and bioRxiv.
So far, lab studies suggest the updated vaccines are well positioned against the latest emerging variants, including BA.2.86.
Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization was estimated at 52%, including 55% against those related to the H1N1 strain.
Monoclonal antibodies and fecal microbiota-based products are changing the landscape for patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection.
A letter to Senate leadership calls for changes to the Animal Drug User Fee Act.
The findings came from the European Primary Oral Insulin Trial.
The detections follow an outbreak in seabirds in the same area and are the first on the West Coast.
Researchers say the results suggest that an eye exam should be performed in mpox patients with ocular symptoms and those with moderate to severe skin lesions.
This summer brought reports of 8 new cases of the mosquito-borne disease in Texas and Florida.
The attack rate in the outbreak was high, at 87%, though officials said it's too soon to say how the variant will behave in the wider population.
The authors said that giving the two vaccines at a single clinic visit should increase adherence.
A total of 80% of the most intelligent people were vaccinated within 40 days of vaccine availability, compared with 180 days for those with the lowest cognitive ability.
Social media was littered with numerous accounts of acute gastroenteritis among Washington-based hikers throughout 2022.
Flu remained at low levels overall, but with elevated activity in some parts of Asia and Central America.
During follow-up testing beginning 4 months after infection, study participants with COVID-19 were offered structured, additional heart screenings, including cardiovascular MRI.
In other developments, Danish researchers today reported on the country's first 10 BA.2.86 cases, none of which were severe.
