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Experts say the updated definition and new scoring system is better at identifying children with sepsis and has the potential to improve care and outcomes.
Wastewater estimates suggest that clinical cases underestimate the true burden by a factor of 2- to 19-fold.
The highest absolute risk of disabilities among adult meningitis survivors was for behavioral and emotional disorders, hearing loss, and impaired vision.
Most errors didn't result in an adverse event, and the few that did were recorded as nonserious.
The first patients to receive the vaccine were a pair of twin babies.
Early tecovirimat was associated with shorter time to symptom improvement (by 5.5 days) among participants with severe illness.
The CDC confirms 105 new Salmonella cases; infections have been reported in 44 states.
Signs are encouraging, though activity sometimes rises again after the holiday period.
The protein changes suggest a significant alteration of the complement system, which results in the immune system remaining activated and inflamed.
Conducted in Burkina Faso, the trial aimed to see if treating individual infants with azithromycin, rather than all infants in a community, might reduce childhood mortality.
Products have been removed from store shelves, but health officials are concerned they may still be in consumers' refrigerators.
Norovirus wastewater signals typically lead syndromic, outbreak, and search-term trend data.
Whole-genome sequencing of samples from the animals revealed four novel mutations not found in public databases as of November 2023.
The rule established a list of foods that require enhanced recordkeeping, but the FDA has yet to finalize plans to implement it.
Chad, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Sudan all report new vaccine-derived polio cases.
Reducing obstacles to care, speeding up drug trials, improving resources for clinicians, and preventing virus spread were among many improvements witnesses discussed.
Wastewater tests had a sensitivity of 32% for detecting 1 or more people shedding mpox virus, but it was 77% for detecting 15 or more people shedding virus.
The length of COVID-19 symptoms was on average 36 hours shorter in the simnotrelvir group.
Investigators say switching to oral antibiotic therapy in patients with low risk of complications could simplify treatment and allow for earlier discharge.
The maternal vaccine candidate will target sepsis caused by Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.
