US reviews plan to infect mosquitoes with bacteria to stop disease
The United States could soon become the first country to approve the commercial use of a common...
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Infectious Disease
Distinguishing Deadly Staph Bacteria From Harmless Strains
Systems biology approach compares the genomes of 64 Staphylococcus aureus strains, providing...
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First completed anti-PD1 study to include HIV-positive patients as well as patients with Hepatitis B or C
In the first-ever clinical trial for metastatic patients previously treated for the disease,...
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Screening for Syphilis Recommended for Persons at Increased Risk of Infection
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has found convincing evidence that screening for...
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A Common Drug, a New Strategy to Fight Cryptococcosis
A drug, more commonly used in the treatment of angina, could be the focus of a new strategy in...
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Avoid Patient Abandonment: 8 Tips for Termination
The law governing medical abandonment is predicated on the more dependent status of the patient in...
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Managing Candidiasis: Updated Guidelines
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) last updated their guideline on the management...
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Hypertension in patients with HIV associated with obesity, fat loss and previous treatment with stavudine
A cross-sectional study involving HIV-positive patients and HIV-negative controls investigates why...
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New clues found to immune system’s misfiring in autoimmune diseases
In new research that points to potential therapeutic targets for autoimmune diseases, researchers...
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Message from CDC regarding the recent shortage of Penicillin G benzathine in the United States
Penicillin G benzathine is the recommended treatment for syphilis and the only recommended...
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Post coronary artery bypass infections linked to severe obesity
Coronary artery bypass patients who have severe obesity are more likely to experience infection...
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Mechanisms of persistent infection for the human T-cell leukemia virus
Joint research between scientists from Kumamoto University, Japan and Imperial College London, UK...
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Novel Strategy May Improve Seasonal Flu Vaccine Effectiveness
New findings describe a novel strategy for predicting how circulating influenza viruses will...
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Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial to Launch in South Africa
For the first time in 7 years, the scientific community is embarking on a large-scale clinical...
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Bacteriophage cocktail shows significant promise for Clostridium difficile infections
Specific phage combinations caused the complete destruction of C. difficile and prevented the...
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CDC Selected notifiable disease reports, United States
CDC comparison of provisional 4-week totals May 21, 2016, with historical data. The ratio log...
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Large global range of prices for hepatitis C medicines raises concerns about affordability
The prices and affordability of recently developed and highly effective direct-acting antivirals...
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How the brain makes, and breaks, a habit
Not all habits are bad. Some are even necessary. It’s a good thing, for example, that we can...
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Mystery solved: Keep your white coats. And your sleeves.
My research staff recently came across a paper that directly addressed this problem. As they say...
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Europe sees constant increase in gonorrhea infections
Surprisingly, for the first time since ECDC started collecting this data (2010), the number of...
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