Viral hepatitis kills as many as malaria, TB or HIV/AIDS, finds study
Viral hepatitis has become one of the leading causes of death and disability across the globe...
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Infectious Disease
2016 National Technology Survey
In a recent technology survey of advanced practice providers, and practice administrators, 19% of...
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CDC Notifiable Disease Report: 4-Week Totals, June
Selected notifiable disease reports, United States, comparison of provisional 4-week totals July...
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System forgives sexual abuse by doctors across US
Sexual abuse by doctors against patients is surprisingly widespread, yet the fragmented medical...
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Should Doctors and Nurses Wear Scrubs in Public?
Being “old school,” I don’t like to see people wearing scrubs outside of the hospital. But there...
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Heroes in Medicine: Daniel R. Lattanzi, MD
Congratulations to Daniel R. Lattanzi, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for...
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Highlights from CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2015
Since the earliest year of data collection, the prevalence of most health-risk behaviors has...
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Distinct Differences in Structure, Features of Retroviruses
In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers in the Institute for Molecular Virology...
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Antibiotic Resistance, Surgery, & Chemotherapy
The CDC estimates that at least 2 million people become infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria...
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Likelihood of widespread Zika outbreak in United States low
University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Infectious Diseases professor emeritus David...
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Study investigates whether it is safe for GPs to prescribe fewer antibiotics
A new study has found that reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections...
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It’s time for NHS England to ‘do the right thing’ and fund PrEP for HIV prevention, say experts
Delays by NHS England will cost lives, argue public health experts. PrEP’s role is...
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Implementation Interventions that Reduce Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
An emerging field, known as implementation science, may help reduce the nearly 150,000 instances...
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Deadly, drug-resistant yeast infection spreading around the world
The C. auris yeast causes bloodstream infections, wound infections, and otitis (ear infections)....
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At a Glance: New IDSA guidelines for Aspergillosis
New therapies are improving care, but early diagnosis remains critical in the effective treatment...
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New research identifies flaws in LM-method for Lyme disease
A new microscopy technique (LM-method) developed to detect Lyme disease is unable to distinguish...
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Grant to Understand Why Some with HIV+ Avoid the “Duet of Death”
Findings Could Offer Hope for TB Prevention, Cure by testing the hypothesis that genetic...
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Scientists Stabilize HIV Structure, Design Potential AIDS Vaccine Candidates
“We’ve figured out one of the fundamental reasons why HIV is metastable,” said Zhu. By tweaking...
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Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be detrimental
An issue with inflated numbers like 251,000 and 440,000 is that they are repeated by naïve...
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FDA OKs Epclusa, First Drug for All Major Forms of HCV
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Epclusa to treat adult patients with chronic...
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