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The World Health Organization (WHO) last week published its strategic priorities for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
The document lays out four strategic priority areas that incorporate what the WHO says are the essential components of the AMR response at global, regional, and country levels. It also lists the key achievements and the next steps that need to be taken in those four areas.
While COVID-19–related thyroid inflammation usually resolves shortly after the acute illness, about half of participants in a study presented today at the 24th European Congress of Endocrinology still had thyroid abnormalities a year later. The congress is being held May 21 to 24 in Milan, Italy.
A large study shows a 12.8% long COVID decline after the first dose and an 8.8% drop after the second.
At least 8 European countries and Canada, the US, and Australia have tallied cases.
Only 16% of people in low-income countries have received a single COVID vaccine dose.
A study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that, despite changes in infection control practices, antibiotic use, and healthcare delivery during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Clostridioides difficile infection rates did not change. The findings were published yesterday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
More adults died of COVID-19 in Massachusetts in the first 8 weeks of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant surge than in the entire 23-week Delta period, suggests a modeling study published today in JAMA.
Allergic conditions were not elevated in preschoolers.
As cases climb in several nations, an expert notes, "We are much more susceptible to poxviruses."
The recommendation passed with 11 yes votes, 1 no vote, and 1 abstention.
Three quarters of US adult and pediatric patients with long COVID were never hospitalized for their infections, and 31% had no preexisting chronic conditions, concludes an observational Fair Health report released yesterday.
The New York City-based nonprofit analyzed its collection of private healthcare claims data from 78,252 long-COVID patients from Oct 1, 2021, to Jan 31, 2022.
Germany recently reported a swine-origin variant H1N1 (H1N1v) influenza infection, which was identified during routine surveillance, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a statement.
Also, an expert panel says the world isn't better prepared to face a new health threat than when COVID first arrived.
UK cases grow to 9, while Spain reports 23 suspected cases and Portugal 5 confirmed, 15 suspected.
Officials say funds are needed to get vaccines and treatments ready for potential fall and winter activity.
Though vaccination protected against severe illness, it did not prevent rapid spread, the authors say.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials of antibiotic treatment for children with community-acquired pneumonia provides further support for shorter treatment duration, Finnish researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Congenital and acquired heart conditions such as biventricular defects, cardiac arrest, and heart failure are associated with increased COVID-19 severity in US children, suggests a multicenter study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers looked at women who received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy or combined oral contraceptive pill.
