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Conservative physicians were five times more likely than their peers to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine.
The emergence of multidrug-resistant strains of the enteric pathogen is challenging clinicians and public health officials.
Early during COVID-19, 622 more US physicians died than expected, but no excess deaths occurred after April 2021, when vaccines were broadly available.
Over the first 2 years of the pandemic, global antibiotic sales increases were linked with rises in COVID-19 cases.
Two more cases have been confirmed, raising the total to 10 cases, 7 of them fatal.
Of 1,981 COVID-positive women, 44.0% developed long COVID, of whom 87.0% reported symptoms lasting at least 2 months.
People on dialysis for kidney disease are 100 times more likely to have Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections than other people.
Early in COVID-19, rates of lung and breast cancer screenings among Medicare enrollees were 24% and 17%, respectively, below expected rates, rising to -14% and -4% later on.
Regular audit and feedback did not reduce antibiotic prescribing among physicians with high prescribing rates, according to a randomized controlled trial.
The more transmissible XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant continues to gain ground in all US regions.
The Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing had difficulty reliably producing larger drug product amounts.
Overall 2-dose protection against Omicron-related hospitalization or death remained above 70% for at least 6 months.
Also, Shionogi announces that the novel antibiotic cefiderocol is now available in Denmark for treating infections caused by gram-negative bacteria in patients with limited treatment options.
Nigeria is seeing a Lassa fever spike, Paraguay reports its first local measles case since 1998, and 5 nations have new polio cases.
The modeling study estimates that antibiotic use in cattle, sheep, pigs, and chicken will rise by 8% from 2020 to 2030 without efforts to curb such use.
More than 20,000 approved prescription drugs and 13,000 facilities are registered to make active pharmaceutical ingredients or finished-dose products.
In the lab breach, virus was detected in a sewage sample and was genetically similar to vaccine stocks used at the facility, then a lab worker tested positive.
Retail-pharmacy (non-VA) dispensing of the unproven COVID-19 treatment "potentially harmed patients while resulting in wasteful insurer spending."
The global vaccination rate in 2022 for people older than 60 was 76%, but it was only 33% in low-income countries.
The study found quality-of-life improvements, regardless of clinical outcome.
