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The WHO and its partners will assess shortages of raw materials like plastic, glass, stoppers, and vials.
One more Ebola case has been reported from Nzerekore, where the country's latest outbreak has been under way since the middle of February, Ibrahima Soce Fall, MD, assistant director-general for emergency response at the World Health Organization (WHO), said today at a briefing.
Among US children and teens hospitalized with COVID-19 or its related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), 22% had neurologic conditions, most of them transient but 12% of them life-threatening or fatal, according to a study today in JAMA Neurology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Treatment with azithromycin had little effect on reducing the time to recovery or risk of hospitalization in patients with suspected COVID-19, according to a randomized clinical trial published yesterday in The Lancet.
Cases are surging in central and eastern Europe, as well as in the west, where new illness numbers are already high.
Early administration of the antiparasitic drug didn't shorten time to clinical improvement.
States are grappling with how best to distribute vaccines to the most vulnerable residents as fast as possible.
A study today in the journal Family Practice reports that a rapid, multi-viral point-of-care test for respiratory infections was easy to use, acceptable to patients and clinicians, and appeared to influence clinical reasoning about antibiotics.
A modeling study published yesterday in Science projects increased transmissibility of the B117 strain of COVID-19, also known as the UK strain, and warns that the strain could likely cause a resurgence of high virus activity in the United Kingdom and make 2021 a deadlier year than 2020.
In the northern Amazon basin where cases are spiking, ICUs in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia are filling up with COVID-19 patients.
It's striking that mental healthcare increased significantly at the same time that overall medical care fell.
Cases are leveling off just as the rate of the B117 variant climbs—a bad sign.
The P1 variant that caused a second wave of COVID-19 infections in Manaus, Brazil, is more transmissible and from 25% to 61% of previously infected people may be susceptible to reinfection, according to a preprint, non–peer-reviewed study from researchers at the University of Sao Paulo, Imperial College London, and the University of Oxford.
Two studies yesterday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology provide a snapshot of dental antibiotic prescribing among Veterans Affairs (VA) dental patients.
Also, some lawmakers ask officials to examine delaying 2nd vaccine doses.
Nearly three fourths of US women with an uncomplicated urinary tract infection get antibiotics longer than necessary.
Also, the WHO details COVAX rollout and hot spot nations that contributed to a weekly rise in cases, the first in 6 weeks.
Two doses of the Pfizer vaccine were 85% to 90% effective against symptomatic illness in those 70 and older.
Low-resource nations have borne the brunt of shaky oxygen supply chains, even before COVID.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed a new case of Listeria monocytogenes in an outbreak associated with queso fresco made by El Abuelito Cheese Inc, raising the total number of cases to 11.
