COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped 6% and deaths declined by 9%, but emergency department visits were up 2% and test positivity rose 0.4%.
The phase 1 trial will enroll 36 healthy adults at two US clinical sites.
A total of 149 oral antibiotic prescriptions were reviewed, and 55 interventions were made, 42 of which were accepted.
Inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions to prevent infective endocarditis cost the system nearly $31 million a year, according to new research.
A compact device designed by US researchers monitors air samples for SARS-CoV-2 variant detection.
COVID vaccine ordering changes on August 3, the US destroys its last chemical weapons, and Mandy Cohen takes the CDC reins.
PAHO says 191 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome have been recorded, 4 of them fatal.
Scientists record at least 109 spillover events from people and 39 instances of deer-to-deer transmission.
Takeda says it voluntarily withdrew its dengue vaccine application because of issues with data collection that can't be resolved quickly.
Southern Hemisphere flu activity continues to rise in some countries, though levels have stabilized or are declining in others.
With the proposed expansion of the program, annual contracts could double to £20 million (US $25.9 million).
The $20.5 million base funding will support plans to extend Baxdela's pneumonia indication and Vabomere's use for complicated urinary tract infections to children.
The report is part of the GAO's series on the accountability and effectiveness of the federal government's $4.7 trillion pandemic response.
A third of late-onset sepsis cases in very-low-birthweight infants were caused by multidrug-resistant organisms, 41% of which proved fatal.
The funds are part of an effort to help officials track antimicrobial resistance patterns and detect emerging resistance profiles.
Hospitalizations declined 47% and ICU admissions dropped 66% over the past 28 days.
At 2 years the most common manifestations were fatigue (14.4%) and rheumatologic (14.4%) and psychiatric (9.6%) symptoms.
The WHO reports 316 new mpox cases and 2 new deaths, and the UK warns about a rise in measles transmission.
Rhinovirus or enterovirus was most common (found in 12.1% of samples), followed by seasonal coronaviruses (5.6%).
Of 22 patients interviewed, 15 said they ate Papa Murphy's raw chocolate chip cookie dough or raw s'mores bars dough.
Key factors associated with antibiotic resistance rates varied greatly among drug-bacterium pairs.
A large meta-analysis shows that influenza vaccination is tied to significantly less antibiotic use, while the effect of pneumococcal vaccination is less pronounced.
An outbreak of COVID-19 in gorillas and lions at the Rotterdam Zoo likely originated from people but spread animal-to-animal.
Lockdown-related changes in care delivery led to increased antibiotic prescribing, the study finds.
Direct oral penicillin challenge in patients with a low-risk penicillin allergy was non-inferior to the standard-of-care skin test.
