Results show substantial variability in the strategic responses to antimicrobial resistance of 114 countries.
Researchers describe a CWD strain from a moose in Finland that's distinct not only from CWD prions in North America but also from those in neighboring Norway.
ICU care for COVID-19 patients averaged $24,200, compared with $4,700 for general-admission patients.
Follow-up investigations in the US and other nations and by the company have not found the same increase.
The EU looks to amend laws to require increasing stocks of essential medicines and offering more timely notifications of shortages.
Analysis of wastewater isolates revealed phylogenetic relatedness to isolates from three acute-care hospitals in the same watershed.
A randomized clinical trial shows that 2 days of postoperative IV antibiotics for complex appendicitis is non-inferior to 5 days.
The number of affected COVID-19 survivors is based on the estimated global rate of 10% of infected people and more than 651 million documented cases and is likely an undercount.
A buck brought to a taxidermist represents the first CWD case in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Selux Diagnostics can now commercialize its Next Generation Phenotyping (NGP) System, which provides susceptibility results within 24 hours for 14 pathogens.
More than 80% adherence is necessary to cut antibiotic use in patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections, analysis finds.
The Bacterial Vaccines Network receives $1.2 million from UK-based charitable organization Wellcome to accelerate the development of bacterial vaccines.
The trial in Kenya involved 449 women who were taking daily oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and randomized them to receive doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis or standard of care.
People who have long COVID and experience anxiety and depression following a mild infection may have brain changes that affect its structure and function.
Nearly half of the newborns (46%) stayed in the same room as their mothers, a practice that rose from 23% in March to June 2020 to 74% in January to March 2021.
The FDA has granted RSVpreF priority review for use in pregnant women to help protect babies against the virus.
Data show that the use of doxycycline after sex to prevent sexually transmitted infections may not significantly increase resistance to the antibiotic.
Implementing a multifaceted antibiotic stewardship intervention safely reduced antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infections in frail older adults.
Banning the routine use of medically important antibiotics in food-animal production was tied to a reduction in one type of antibiotic-resistant infection in people.
US celebrity Twitter posts—especially those from politicians and news anchors—likely influenced the increasingly negative US public attitudes toward efforts to combat COVID-19.
COVID-19 survivors with persistent symptoms are at more than double the risk of new-onset cardiovascular symptoms, suggests a meta-analysis.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, Mozambique, and Madagascar all recorded new cases.
Molecular analysis of stool and rectal swab samples reveal widespread colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms.
Indicators continue to decline, with the 7-day average for new daily cases down 9.2% from a week ago.
Two years into the pandemic, US cancer screening rates still hadn't recovered to pre-crisis levels, putting millions at risk, new data reveal.
