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People who perceived having more cognitive difficulties during their acute COVID-19 illnesses had more long COVID symptoms 60 and 90 days later.
The CDC updated its interim recommendations for infection prevention and control for healthcare personnel.
Cognitive behavioral therapy lessens fatigue and improves concentration among long-COVID patients.
They say accelerated use of the products during the COVID-19 pandemic could pose health risks, such as antimicrobial resistance.
The USDA has conditionally licensed an oral vaccine designed to limit the spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
The most recently confirmed patients in Marburg virus outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania were discharged from treatment at the end of April, the WHO says.
Among recipients with weakened immune systems who had completed a primary COVID-19 vaccine series, Paxlovid was tied to a 44% lower risk of hospitalization.
Ahead of a UN meeting, the executive director of the Stop TB Partnership discusses why the world hasn't done more to combat tuberculosis, and why she's hopeful for the future.
The rare cases of myocarditis among recipients of mRNA vaccines are caused by a generalized immune-cell and inflammatory response, researchers say.
Mpox infections in the Chicago area are at the highest level since November and mark the highest weekly case rate in the nation.
Local adverse event rates were highest following intradermal vaccine administration.
Exposure to antibiotics at an early age is among the factors that can increase the risk, study finds.
PAHO officials say they are seeing changes in the timing and magnitude of cases that are likely related to the effects of climate change and unplanned urbanization.
The WHO said the decision was based on declining COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations, and ICU admissions and on high levels of immunity.
Some data streams will end as the national public health emergency winds down, but multiple markers will still yield timely localized data.
Updated guidelines for preventing surgical-site infections recommend stopping antibiotics when a patient's incision is closed.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, says she will leave the agency at the end of June.
More parents were very likely to vaccinate their kids after reading messages saying that other trusted parents have done so or that the vaccine is safe.
Experts call on governments and health officials to focus more on infection prevention in their efforts to fight antimicrobial resistance and other threats.
Africa has had a 7.4% case increase, with 111 new infections in the most recent 2 weeks.
