Unanticipated funding disruptions can jeopardize follow-up, undermine data quality, and leave researchers unable to complete analyses.
Estimated effectiveness was 65% against hospitalization, 74% against pediatric intensive care unit admission, and 64% against high-dependency unit admission.
Working while sick increased over time, from less than 2% in 2020 to 15% in 2024.
Pre-existing conditions, genetic susceptibility, immune dysregulation, or environmental exposures may play a role.
The South Carolina outbreak increased by 89 cases in the past 4 days.
Compared with controls, nirsevimab was tied to an effectiveness of 62% against all-cause lower respiratory tract infection hospitalizations.
Roughly 1 in 100 adults aged 65 and older with COVID were hospitalized each year of the study period.
Those who were ill with COVID-19 and had at least 1 underlying condition missed more days of work than those with flu or asymptomatic COVID.
In 2022, user fees made up about 1% of the $1.1 billion foods program budget.
On average, workers who received Novavax had 1.7 systemic symptoms, compared with 2.8 in Pfizer recipients.
Relative to HPV-negative participants, those with HPV had a 40% higher risk of cardiovascular disease and twice the risk of coronary artery disease.
With local spread likely in Arkansas' Faulkner County, health officials updated vaccination recommendations for those living in or traveling to it and neighboring counties.
The outbreak has sickened 79 people in 7 states and is linked to brown cage free and brown certified organic eggs from a distributor in California.
Overall vaccine effectiveness was 29% against COVID-19–associated hospitalization.
Timely receipt of MMR1 remained unchanged across the study period, at about 54%.
Many people, some from other health zones, attended funerals before the outbreak was identified and may have been exposed to the virus.
The United States has 14 more measles cases, 1,333 total.
Between 2006 and 2023, vaccination rates reached 82%.
Home-based testing addresses screening barriers and can mitigate the impact of appointment backlogs and scheduling constraints on patients and healthcare systems, the authors say.
Different bacteria, viruses, and fungi have been suggested as possible causative pathogens for Parkinson’s.
The approval of Augmentin XR is the first under the Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program.
An observational study from China finds that menstrual blood can be used to screen for human papillomavirus which causes 90% of all cervical cancer.
