A quality improvement initiative at a Denver health system was associated with significantly reduced antibiotic prescribing for pediatric conjunctivitis.
The 5-year grant was awarded to the Icahn School of Medicine.
Two people, relatives of one of the deceased patients, are hospitalized with Nipah infections.
The infected sea elephants were found in an outbreak area where dead sea lions were also found.
Among survey respondents, 64% reported very good to excellent hospital support for their infection prevention and control programs, but 49% said they were burned out.
Among 5 Nipah cases, 2 have proved fatal, and officials are following up with 77 high-risk contacts.
Wastewater testing rose in prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Other services," manufacturing, transportation, and retail trade also had higher death rates.
The team will collect more than 20,000 samples from wildlife such as eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, and raccoons.
Wild poliovirus is endemic in only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Early tecovirimat was associated with shorter time to symptom improvement (by 5.5 days) among participants with severe illness.
The first patients to receive the vaccine were a pair of twin babies.
Most errors didn't result in an adverse event, and the few that did were recorded as nonserious.
Non-exclusive licensing of the yeast strain by developers will allow others to develop effective, low-cost vaccines.
Officials recently warned that Europe's measles cases rose more than 30-fold in 2023.
Reduced antibiotic consumption was related to de-escalation and discontinuation of empiric antibiotic therapy during the intervention period.
Over the course of the study period, average daily use of three electronic message systems increased.
Investigators say the strategy is readily applicable in low- and middle-income countries, where high rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia drive antibiotic use.
The six studies that examined all-cause death and the 13 on diabetes-related death showed consistent increases in both.
Both sperm concentration and total sperm number were significantly lower 3 months after infections.
At 90-days post-infection, 8% of vaccinated cases were still reporting symptoms, compared with 27% of unvaccinated cases.
Senators said they're hopeful about vaccine development, but worry that trade agreements aren't keeping pace with scientific progress.
Lack of human resources, absence of leadership, and limited microbiology laboratory support are some of the issues cited.
The CRISPR-engineered bacteriophage therapy from Locus Biosciences targets urinary tract infections caused by drug-resistant E coli.
The toilet seat had the most contamination, while walls had little.
