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Severe complications included necrotizing (flesh-eating) skin lesions, lung dysfunction sometimes accompanied by nodules, and secondary infections and sepsis.
Data show that use of proton-pump inhibitors increased hospital patients' risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms by nearly 50%.
Two recent papers claim there are no differences between surgical masks and respirators for preventing the spread of respiratory diseases like COVID-19 and flu, but the articles are deeply flawed.
COVID-19 survivors with persistent symptoms are at more than double the risk of new-onset cardiovascular symptoms, suggests a meta-analysis.
US celebrity Twitter posts—especially those from politicians and news anchors—likely influenced the increasingly negative US public attitudes toward efforts to combat COVID-19.
Banning the routine use of medically important antibiotics in food-animal production was tied to a reduction in one type of antibiotic-resistant infection in people.
As proportions of recombinant Omicron subvariants rise, especially XBB.1.5, the WHO urged countries to step up surveillance and sequencing.
South Dakota, Tennessee, and Maine were the only states to score "very easy" or "fairly easy" in readability.
Implementing a multifaceted antibiotic stewardship intervention safely reduced antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infections in frail older adults.
Data show that the use of doxycycline after sex to prevent sexually transmitted infections may not significantly increase resistance to the antibiotic.
The FDA has granted RSVpreF priority review for use in pregnant women to help protect babies against the virus.
The median time to sustained recovery was 11 days in both the ivermectin and placebo group.
In a randomized trial conducted in five countries, a 2-month drug regimen was found to be non-inferior to the standard 6-month treatment.
The roadmap provides a detailed strategy to develop broadly protective vaccines—suitable for wide use—to tackle future COVID-19 variants and other worrisome coronaviruses.
Nearly half of the newborns (46%) stayed in the same room as their mothers, a practice that rose from 23% in March to June 2020 to 74% in January to March 2021.
People who have long COVID and experience anxiety and depression following a mild infection may have brain changes that affect its structure and function.
The trial in Kenya involved 449 women who were taking daily oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and randomized them to receive doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis or standard of care.
The Bacterial Vaccines Network receives $1.2 million from UK-based charitable organization Wellcome to accelerate the development of bacterial vaccines.
A meta-analysis shows that protection from previous infection against symptomatic disease was high for the wild-type, Alpha, Beta, and Delta variants but much lower for Omicron BA.1.
COVID-19 vaccination is linked to fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among previously infected adults, suggests a US study.
