Age-specific strategies are needed when caring for older individuals with HIV
A new article highlights the differences between older and younger adults living with HIV, and...
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Infectious Disease
A Strategy for Decreasing Influenza’s Impact
Research indicates that about 60% of influenza-related hospitalizations occur in adults aged 65...
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Universal flu vaccine designed by scientists
An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to...
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No one knows how many patients are dying from superbug infections in California hospitals
Many thousands of Californians are dying every year from infections they caught while in...
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HIV cure hope thanks to collaboration
Researchers are hopeful of a cure for HIV after treating the first patient with a promising new...
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Parking lot needlestick yields $4.6 million payout
A jury awarded a woman $4,618,500 for a needlestick injury she sustained in the parking lot of...
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Rare flu-thwarting mutation discovered
A rare and improbable mutation in a protein encoded by an influenza virus renders the virus...
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New Warning Signs that Gonorrhea Treatment May be Losing Effectiveness
More options urgently needed – encouraging progress toward one new treatment For the first time in...
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At what rate are syphilis cases rising among gay men in the US? CDC presents new data
New state-level data from a presentation from 2016 STD Prevention Conference reveal how high...
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Historical Milestone with Measles in the Americas
Measles transmission had been considered interrupted in the Region since 2002, when the last...
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CDC Whistleblower Claims Agency has been Using Wrong Zika Test
In the midst of the fight to control Zika, the top public health agency in the United States has...
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Can We Create a Vaccine Against Common Cold?
Scientists are making the case that a vaccine against rhinoviruses, the predominant cause of the...
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A 25-year-old’s Answer to Antibiotic Resistance
Could this be the end of superbugs? A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight...
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UTI testing technology cuts screening time to four hours
Researchers using DNA sequencing to profile antibiotic resistance in infection have achieved a...
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Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
Every doctor makes mistakes. But medicine’s culture of denial (and shame) keeps doctors from...
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How Can Magnetic Bacteria Treat Cancer?
One of the biggest challenges in cancer therapy is being able to sufficiently deliver chemotherapy...
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Ancient Remedy Becomes Novel Approach to Treating Clostridium Difficile Infection
Modern medicine is taking a new look at an ancient remedy for severe diarrhea as a novel approach...
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Antibodies Triggered by Avian Influenza Virus Vaccine Illuminate A New Path Toward A Universal Flu Vaccine
Diverse antibodies induced in humans by vaccination with an avian influenza virus vaccine may...
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13 apps to help nurses improve patient care
Nurses play a crucial role in improving the care of a hospital’s patients. As technology...
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The Impact of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
According to current estimates, the number of prescription opioid overdose deaths in the United...
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