The proportion of residents who received benefits without a preceding 3-day hospitalization rose from 3% to 18% from 2020 to 2021.
H9N2 avian flu has been confirmed in three children under 11, while H1N1v flu infected two preschool girls.
Scientists are looking to gain a better understanding of the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the general population.
Medium-to-very-high expectation scores were associated with higher levels of satisfaction upon receiving antibiotics.
Officials want to declare that Salmonella be considered a contaminant in breaded, stuffed raw chicken products when the bacteria exceed a very low level.
ICU patients reported more mobility problems, and at 12 months 20% of ICU patients had severe problems or were unable to perform their usual activities.
The country is juggling several health challenges, which is complicated by a humanitarian emergency and insecurity in the northeast.
Activity is rising in the Western Pacific due to local transmission in Japan, South Korea, and China.
Nine mpox patients had new skin or mucosal lesions after completing the 14-day Tpoxx treatment course.
The initiative in Texas was associated with reduced staff burnout during COVID-19 without increased healthcare-associated infections.
The PASTEUR was introduced in 2020 and 2021 but never received a vote despite bipartisan support.
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar both reported more cases involving circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses.
Both infants were sick in the summer of 2022, and their households had received raw milk from the same cow-sharing arrangement.
The drug marks the first fecal microbiota therapy that can be taken orally.
Despite rising proportions of two new subvariants, US COVID markers continue to fall.
The COVID-19 emergency committee will meet on May 4 to assess if the situation still warrants a public health emergency of international concern.
The recipients are Vedanta Biosciences, whose lead candidate is a microbiome-directed C difficile therapy, and diagnostics company Pattern Bioscience for rapid bacterial susceptibility tests.
The hospital says it's unclear whether the K pneumoniae infections caused or contributed to the 7 patient deaths.
In Nevada, 18 cases were reported in 2022, and 15 patients required surgery.
Study shows that that the median interval between two infections was 229 days, and reinfection counts were higher during the Omicron era.
A post hoc analysis of a randomized, controlled trial estimates that 2 doses are 100% effective against hospitalization by 95 days.
The traceback investigation identified a single production facility in Kansas City, Missouri.
Shortages of some drugs to treat kids' respiratory illnesses come amid surges of RSV and the flu and continuing COVID-19.
An FDA official wants drug companies to start reporting spikes in demand in an effort to prevent or ease shortages.
During shortages of 5 antibiotics at a US children's hospital, prescribers adhered to restriction protocols 57% of the time.
