A study of patients with peripheral intravenous catheters finds a significantly increased risk of BSIs after 3 days of dwell time.
Vaccination was tied to a lower probability of receiving a new dementia diagnosis during the following 7 years.
Protection, however, dropped from 40% to 18% after 120 or more days.
Healthcare workers remain the most trusted sources of information (73%), while trust in the federal government to provide factual information rose to 58%.
Mali, the 20th African country to introduce malaria vaccination, will use a hybrid approach to boost protection during the high-risk part of the season.
Flu-related deaths in children climb to 204, up 6 from the previous week, the CDC says.
Over the past few months, Idaho has become the nation's hot spot for H5N1 detections in dairy cattle.
The state DNR said that 89% of the positive cases were found in the Southern Farmland Zone.
A coalition of groups sent a letter to the HHS secretary outlining steps he should take to reduce antibiotic use in food-producing animals.
Models find no difference in all-cause death rates, 30-day hospital readmission, or length of stay before and after restrictions were put into place.
Among clinicians with knowledge of guidelines, 62% recommended use.
Ugandan health officials will maintain Ebola surveillance and continue risk communications and patient follow-up.
Global Virus Network scientists highlight the need for robust surveillance, enhanced biosecurity, and readiness for potential human-to-human viral transmission.
Researchers find that air samples from pig and poultry farms and nearby residential areas in China are highly enriched with antibiotic resistance genes.
The rate of Black adults receiving seasonal flu shots increased 7 percentage points.
New assay uses cerebrospinal fluid rather than blood to measure levels of C-reactive protein.
There are currently 59 herds quarantined in 4 Idaho counties.
In a small study, CF patients treated with the therapy saw a reduction in multidrug-resistant lung bacteria and improved lung function.
Only 5% of women experienced a change in cycle length of at least 8 days.
The project is dedicated to safeguarding US vaccine use so that it remains grounded in the best available science, free from external influence.
Relative to unexposed children, those with congenital syphilis were at a 6-fold increased risk for first hospitalization, and those exposed to maternal syphilis were at nearly twice the risk.
FDA and USDA teams are still working to identify a food source for the Listeria outbreak.
Illnesses in the DRC and Uganda follow reports of buffalo and rhino deaths in Virunga National Park.
A number of factors were associated with persistent symptoms, including female sex and longer hospital stay.
