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Letermovir was noninferior to valganciclovir in preventing CMV illness through 1 year after transplant (10.4% vs 11.8%).
The white-tailed deer was found near Optima, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, after a Texas County landowner told officials it had been behaving abnormally.
From November 2020 through October 2021, 59% had depression, 60% had anxiety, and 62% reported stress.
Flu and RSV levels are rising to prepandemic levels, with increasing hospitalizations in children younger than 2 years.
A higher proportion of long-COVID patients than control patients had impaired cardiac blood flow (50% vs 27%).
Medical records were searched for 23 serious potential vaccine side effects, including blood clots, seizures, stroke, and myocarditis.
European officials agree that COVID-19 vaccines should be switched for the fall to a single-strain vaccine that contains an XBB lineage strain.
Menstrual cycles may lengthen by up to 1 day following vaccination, but the effect is temporary and vaccination makes little difference in other menstruation factors.
Data reveal a decline in vaccine uptake, a higher newborn death rate, less consumption of solid or semisolid foods, and lower rates of physical growth.
Data collected from 88 Canadian hospitals from January 2017 through December 2021 show that rates of MRSA bloodstream infections rose 35%.
Gonorrhea infections rose 50% in 2022 compared with 2021, and infectious syphilis diagnoses increased 15%.
Some Southern Hemisphere countries such as Australia and Chile are reporting increased influenza activity.
The certification aims to ensure that the concentration of antibiotics in manufacturing wastewater is below a level that could promote resistance.
Multiple COVID-19 infections were predictive of developing long COVID.
The utility of universal admission testing has been questioned due to limited resources, care delays, and sparse data showing it cuts hospital infections.
Fourteen suspected and 11 probable US meningitis cases have been reported in an outbreak tied to cosmetic surgery in clinics in Matamoros, Mexico.
The events were tied to 2,022 COVID-19 cases, and 58% of outbreaks occurred on farms classified as greenhouses.
New Jersey's early release of inmates to quell COVID-19 spread didn't result in a spike in substance use disorder–related emergency department visits or hospitalizations.
The 54-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital in May and is listed in serious condition.
In other US developments, the Biden administration signaled its pick for the next CDC director, and the FDA revoked the EUA for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
