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The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) announced today that it is partnering with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to launch a center focused on research into antimicrobial resistance and tuberculosis (TB).
A report notes significant differences in the use of various antibiotic classes between the 2 databases studied.
Also, global deaths pass 4 million, led by the United States, India, and Brazil.
Recommendations include bolstering worker well-being, reassessing priorities, and admitting when data are lacking.
"We are now starting to see new and concerning trends in cases," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky says.
A urine culture stewardship initiative at a teaching hospital in Michigan reduced overuse of urine cultures and was associated with a significant decline in catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The US COVID-19 vaccination program may have saved almost 280,000 lives and prevented 1.25 million hospitalizations, according to the results of a modeling study published yesterday by the Commonwealth Fund.
WHO officials said variant spread could outpace vaccines, even in countries with high vaccine coverage.
The hospitals with the highest caseloads had double the risk of COVID-related death.
The more transmissible variant has led to increased cases in recent weeks in the South and West.
The agency prevented 199 drug shortages in 2020, its annual report says.
New data presented at the European Association of Urology congress this week show that men with low testosterone who were hospitalized for severe COVID-19 during the first wave of infections in Milan, Italy, were more likely to need intensive care and mechanical ventilation, and they had a sixfold increased risk of death.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued an update to its consolidated guidelines on the detection of tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant TB.
Study finds that tocilizumab and sarilumab reduce the risk of death and the need for mechanical ventilation.
Canadian data suggest efforts to cut unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in primary care have had mixed results.
A lottery-based incentive was not tied to increased vaccination rates in adults.
The federal government will shift to a smaller, community-based COVID vaccination effort.
Only 20 US state and District of Columbia COVID-19 vaccination plans included mention of a health equity committee, and only 8 specifically mentioned including minority group representatives, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
Late last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a new Listeria outbreak connected to Tyson Foods Inc. chicken products.
So far three people have been sickened, one in Delaware and two in Texas. One patient has died from his or her infection, and all required hospitalization. The patients first started having symptoms from Apr 6 to Jun 5.
The Delta variant virus is causing cases to rise in some regions, but J&J says its vaccine is effective against it.
