Gonorrhea infections rose 50% in 2022 compared with 2021, and infectious syphilis diagnoses increased 15%.
Data collected from 88 Canadian hospitals from January 2017 through December 2021 show that rates of MRSA bloodstream infections rose 35%.
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.
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.
European officials agree that COVID-19 vaccines should be switched for the fall to a single-strain vaccine that contains an XBB lineage strain.
Flu and RSV levels are rising to prepandemic levels, with increasing hospitalizations in children younger than 2 years.
From November 2020 through October 2021, 59% had depression, 60% had anxiety, and 62% reported stress.
The white-tailed deer was found near Optima, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, after a Texas County landowner told officials it had been behaving abnormally.
Data show patients who suffered heart attacks during initial COVID-19 lockdowns can expect to live up to 2 years less than those who had prepandemic heart attacks.
Narrow-spectrum antibiotic prescriptions rose from 60% during baseline to 78% during the intervention to 92% during the sustainment phase.
The outbreak has so far sickened 26 people in Illinois, with a few cases in other states.
ACIP topics include RSV, flu, polio, mpox, meningococcal, and COVID-19 vaccines.
The patient is a 42-year-old woman from Parana state who had underlying health conditions.
Overall, undergraduates showed more signs of distress and anxiety than even UK healthcare workers.
Health workers describe a disconnect between official messaging and their own experience, waning morale, and having to allocate scarce resources.
The FDA is asking manufacturers to develop single-strain vaccines that target the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant.
Data indicate the pathogen is emerging as a severe threat to newborns, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries.
Researchers find that 7% of Aspergillus fumigatus isolates were resistant to one or both of two common triazole antifungal drugs.
Also, Peru is battling its worst dengue outbreak, with about 150,000 suspected cases so far.
Eating disorders in girls 13 to 16 years old rose 42% in the first 2 years of COVID-19, and self-harm was up 38%.
Adult COVID-19 patients exposed to air pollution spent an average of 4 extra days in the hospital, further overwhelming health systems.
CD388 is Cidara's novel drug for preventing flu in adults at high risk for severe influenza, including those for whom vaccines are either ineffective or not indicated.
Officials confirm that the cases are caused by the Plasmodium vivax malaria parasite, which is not as fatal as other malaria species.
A recent cluster of 40 cases in Chicago suggests that vaccine protection may wane over time, but vaccinated patients do well recovering at home.
The odds of SARS-CoV-2 infection were 6.2 times greater in household contacts during Omicron than with previous strains, with rates even higher in kids.
