Infectious Diseases
From the Journals
Vaccination status doesn’t impact infectivity timeline in kids
”Current policies requiring isolation for 5 days after a positive test might be appropriate, as the majority of children were not infectious by...
News from the FDA/CDC
New meningococcal vaccine wins FDA approval
The vaccine “has the potential to protect more adolescents and young adults from this severe and unpredictable disease by providing the broadest...
Conference Coverage
Sputum microbiome may augur treatment success in NTM-PD
Patients cured of nontuberculosis mycobacterial infections with antibiotics had greater species diversity in sputum than those with refractory...
Conference Coverage
AI chatbot ‘hallucinates’ faulty medical intelligence
AI models are typically a year out of date and have this “charming problem of hallucinating made-up data and saying it with all the certainty of...
Conference Coverage
Antibiotics ‘like gold’ for some, driving inappropriate use
Many felt they “knew their body, knew what they had, and knew how to treat themselves” without a health care provider.
Conference Coverage
New RSV vaccine will cut hospitalizations, study shows
With widespread use of the vaccine, annual hospitalizations resulting from infant RSV would fall by 51%, emergency department encounters would...
Conference Coverage
Wastewater can signal upswing in flu, RSV
The new study shows that wastewater-based surveillance is a “robust and adaptable” tool for community-level surveillance of seasonal respiratory...
From the Journals
Young women rate top sources for STI self-testing
Additional data from in-depth interviews tagged Instagram as an option to provide information on direct-to-consumer STI tests.
From the Journals
Paxlovid tied to benefits in high-risk patients with COVID
No significant benefit was observed in patients who were not immunocompromised.
From the Journals
More evidence shows COVID-19’s link to risk for autoimmune disease
Patients with more severe COVID-19 that required hospitalization in the ICU were more likely to develop vasculitis, alopecia totalis, and several...
Conference Coverage
Respiratory infections, asthma rise before type 2 diabetes
Taken together, the data suggest that subacute inflammation manifesting in asthma as well as the onset of asthma or an acute infection may be a...