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Draft guidance issued today by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends against offering antibiotics for acute cough associated with upper respiratory infection.
The outbreak has grown to 102 cases—6 new—and 59 people have died.
Preteen girls, teens, and young women who receive recommended vaccinations, including for human papillomavirus (HPV), have no increased risk of primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), also called premature menopause, according to a study published yesterday in Pediatrics.
A survey of primary care docs reveals significant gaps in their knowledge of serogroup B meningococcal vaccines.
Also, patients are slightly younger than what might be expected, but within a general range.
The value of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing as an additional tool to screen for cervical cancer—joining the traditional Pap smear—has been affirmed by a new meta-analysis and an expert panel’s recommendation based on that analysis, as explained in a set of articles today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
A study today in Pediatrics suggests that a dose of parenteral antibiotics prior to discharge from the emergency department (ED) is likely not necessary for most young children with urinary tract infections (UTIs).
The changes prioritize newer medications and oral regimens over injectable drugs.
Former smokers had triple the risk, while those with more than 6 sex partners had a sixfold risk.
The outbreak has grown to 91 cases (64 confirmed), including 50 fatalities.
More than 41,000 people in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) European Region have been infected with measles from January through June of this year, already exceeding 12-month totals for any other year this decade, the WHO Regional Office for Europe reported today.
The outbreak has grown to 78 cases, and vaccination has begun in the affected area.
For the second week in a row the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed four cases of variant H1N2 (H1N2v) flu, this time in California, Michigan, and Ohio.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Aug 16
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported 40 more cases in a Cyclospora outbreak linked to McDonald's salads, pushing the illness total to 476.
In another new development, the NIH today announced the start of the first human trial of a live attenuated vaccine against Zika.
The announcement comes as Nigeria is experiencing its largest outbreak, with 481 confirmed cases reported as of last week, 133 of them fatal.
A longitudinal study of inpatients at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) acute care hospitals has found that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization significantly increases the risk of MRSA infection, with a substantial number of infections occurring after discharge from the hospital, VA researchers report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health (MOH) released a new update late yesterday afternoon on the growing Ebola outbreak in the eastern region of the country, noting seven new confirmed cases, one of whom is a healthcare worker at Mangina Reference Health Center.
As the WHO detailed stepped-up efforts to prepare four key countries to prevent and detect cases, tests in Uganda ruled out three suspected cases.
