How One Children's Hospital Is Confronting a 'Sick Season' Surge Doctors at CHOP say kids probably missed out on building immunity due to the pandemic Oct 21, 2022
Oral Microbiome Therapy for Recurrent C. Diff Mostly Holds Up at 6 Months Half as many patients receiving SER-109 experienced recurrences versus placebo group Oct 21, 2022
U.S. Chickenpox Vaccine Program Led to Near Elimination of the Virus Cases decreased by 99% in people under 20 after implementation of the two-dose vaccine Oct 20, 2022
TikTok Traffic on Monkeypox Conspiracy Theories Swelled After WHO's Alert Over 150 videos featuring conspiracy theories garnered nearly 1.5 million views Oct 18, 2022
More Harm Reduction, Less Abstinence-Only in COVID Messaging, Experts Say "We know that abstinence-only doesn't work in any situation" Oct 12, 2022
Breakthrough Monkeypox Cases Seen Weeks After Second Jynneos Dose However, most post-vaccination cases in at-risk group occurred within 14 days of first dose Oct 05, 2022
Supply Issues a Major Challenge to Polio Vaccination Programs As the world moves from eradication to containment, will vaccine incentives increase? Oct 04, 2022
Experts Grapple With New Reality: Polio May Never Be Eradicated Oral polio vaccine has diminished paralysis, but it's also a reason the virus keeps circulating Oct 04, 2022
CDC Warns of Severe Monkeypox in People With HIV, the Immunocompromised Reports of myocarditis, penile necrosis, and atypical/persistent rash requiring amputation Sep 30, 2022
Make the Diagnosis: His Skin Is Slacking Off A 43-year-old man presented to the doctor with a rash that had developed on his trunk over the last couple of days. Sep 28, 2022
Type 1 Diabetes Onset Strongly Linked to Enterovirus Infection Type, Timing Data support looking at enterovirus vaccination for prevention Sep 26, 2022
Mass Hospital Layoffs; Pfizer CEO Has COVID Again; 'Blood on Your Hands' Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Sep 26, 2022
Norovirus Triples; Cashing in on Death; Phlebotomist Arrested for Sexual Assault Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Sep 23, 2022
FDA Advisors Back Fecal Microbiome Treatment for Recurrent C. Diff Committee members swayed by strong "need" rather than strong data Sep 22, 2022
Oral Capsule or Colonic Fecal Transplant for C. Diff: Is One Superior? Real-world data showed no difference in cure rates at 1 and 2 months Sep 20, 2022
Fauci: COVID Lives On; Doc's Burnout Broke Her Heart; Don't Cook Chicken in NyQuil Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Sep 20, 2022
Long COVID, ME/CFS Patients Protest in Front of White House Protesters expressed frustration that President Biden declared the pandemic over on "60 Minutes" Sep 19, 2022
Health Workers Unlikely to Catch Monkeypox From Infected Patients Even with low adherence to PPE guidelines, no workers contracted the virus, Colorado data show Sep 16, 2022
CDC: No Excess Pediatric Brain Infections During the Pandemic Streptococcal brain abscesses, other complications have remained within historical limits Sep 16, 2022
Should I Time My COVID Booster? Waiting is okay for most, but certain groups should get their shots right away Sep 14, 2022
Tecovirimat Safe in Monkeypox, but Efficacy Is Less Clear Data support use in patients with or at risk for severe disease, CDC researchers say Sep 12, 2022
Are Doctors Getting Their COVID Boosters? asked a dozen doctors about their plans for the latest bivalent shots Sep 12, 2022
CDC: More Kids Hospitalized With Respiratory Disease Linked to Non-Polio Enterovirus Infection associated with rare neurologic complication that causes limb weakness, agency says Sep 10, 2022
Sudden Anal Discharge and Rectal Pain in 30-Year-Old Man Rash that appeared a week later provided a more telling clue Sep 06, 2022
Shania Twain's Lyme Disease The best-selling country artist's condition was revealed in a new Netflix documentary Sep 01, 2022
Nearly Half of MSM Are Changing Sex Behaviors to Reduce Monkeypox Risk Some cities seeing "downward trend" in cases, according to the CDC Aug 26, 2022
What's the Tomato Flu? Likely not a new virus, but a manifestation of hand, foot, and mouth disease, experts say Aug 26, 2022
How Long Has Polio Been Circulating in the U.S.? The virus has likely been circulating in U.S. cities intermittently for years, experts say Aug 25, 2022
Herpes Viruses Linked to Brain Changes But no evidence of a relationship between herpes and Alzheimer's disease Aug 24, 2022
FDA Warns on Potential for Monkeypox Spread via Fecal Transplant Agency urges additional protections around donor screening Aug 24, 2022
Tpoxx Well Tolerated in Small Monkeypox Series Nearly all patients had lesion resolution, though unclear to what degree antiviral played a part Aug 24, 2022
Climate Change Is Making Pathogens Worse 58% of infectious diseases aggravated by climatic hazards at some point, says Camilo Mora Aug 24, 2022 video
CDC Examines Monkeypox's Ability to Linger on Home Surfaces Investigators find no viable virus on high-contact areas, but study has caveats Aug 19, 2022
Am I Protected Against Polio? Most people in the U.S. are vaccinated, which provides substantial protection, experts say Aug 17, 2022
Monkeypox Detected in Asymptomatic Men The virus was found on anal swabs collected for routine STI testing Aug 16, 2022
CDC: Paralytic Polio an Ongoing Risk for the Unvaccinated No additional cases identified, but wastewater testing continues to detect the virus Aug 16, 2022
The Current Case of Polio Through a Historical Lens Broader wastewater surveillance and targeted immunization are critical Aug 15, 2022
New CDC COVID Guidance Wins Plaudits, Brickbats Agency shifts containment focus now that transmission seems unstoppable Aug 12, 2022
