Although reports on COVID-19 cases and death have seemingly tapered off, COVID-19 and long COVID remained a heavy focus of research throughout this year. Topics investigated by researchers across fields included the impact of vaccination...
Results of a decades-long study recently published in BMJ found that suicide risk increased on New Year’s Day in most countries, while the risk varied by country on Christmas. Healio spoke with Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW, professor in...
In a set of healthy school-aged children, several lung function measures, including FEV1 and FVC, improved with classroom plus bedroom air purification, according to results published in JAMA Pediatrics. “The respiratory benefits in...
Long COVID appears to be more prevalent in young and middle-aged adults and may not be taken as seriously as in other age groups, resulting in compromised lives. Medscape Medical News
Recombinant pertussis booster vaccines provided sustained immunity against whooping cough in adolescents and young adults, showed a recent follow-up study of a clinical trial. Medscape Medical News
At a recent congress in Berlin, Germany, clinicians were updated as to recent findings on post-COVID syndromes among children and adolescents. Medscape Medical News
A recent study showed that rates of antiretroviral therapy in enrollees living with HIV increased over the years, but women had low prescription rates across all age groups. Medscape Medical News
Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience Amid all the dire news to come out of the movie business this year – a box...
The FDA has updated the definition of “healthy,” so food labels will have to abide by new rules to earn the title, according to a press release. In the United States, there is a worsening crisis of diet-related, preventable chronic...
Each month, we ask one of our PharmD columnists to dig into the literature to find evidence-based answers to important clinical questions in the field of infectious diseases. In 2024, the columnists provided evidence-based answers to...
Each cover of Healio | Infectious Disease News is topped by a feature story on an emerging topic in the field of ID. Often, the stories are suggested by members of our editorial board. Below is a selection of nine feature stories we...
Prof Christoph Diener picks his top neurology publications in 2024 covering Alzheimer’s, stroke, Parkinson’s, migraine, glioblastoma, long COVID, and the GLP-1 drugs. Medscape Neurology
No adverse events were observed in a small retrospective study of pediatric patients receiving the MMRV vaccine while on dupilumab or methotrexate. Medscape Medical News
A new finding of post-exertional malaise in 20% of people with fibromyalgia might be an overestimate, but when post-exertional malaise is present, extreme caution is needed around prescribing exercise. Medscape Medical News
Children with critical asthma in higher vs. lower volume institutions had a greater likelihood of receiving noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and CPAP, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society....
SAN DIEGO — Tabelecleucel provided durable benefit to solid organ or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients with Epstein-Barr virus-driven post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease, according to study results. About half...
Rwanda has declared an end to the country's Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told a news... Reuters Health Information
A healthy 5-year-old boy, whose only problem had been mild-to-moderate seborrheic dermatitis, is taken to his provider with the complaint of a sore on his left lower eyelid. There is no history of injury, and the sore was first noted...
Experts published a swath of new research this year about the youth mental health crisis in the United States, which U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, has called an emergency. According to the CDC, nearly one-third of high...
Children and teens are using technology earlier and more often than they ever have, and research from 2024 documented the consequences of heavy screen use among youth. Two studies reported that young children with high amounts of screen...
Physicians struggle to diagnose ear infections and often overprescribe antibiotics to children with acute otitis media, according to research published this year. “If it is missed, a misdiagnosis will result in undertreatment and...
A team has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung. Their findings highlight how a little-known member of the gut microbiome reshapes the lung immune environment to have both beneficial and detrimental effects on...
Men’s health has been declining for years in the United States, and health literacy may play an unexpectedly large role, according to experts. Historically, in most societies, men have typically had shorter average lifespans than women,...
The CDC’s confirmation on Wednesday of the first case of severe bird flu in the United States was just the latest development in the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. This year, H5N1 has been reported not only...
Thirty-six years ago, James H. Brien, DO, FAAP, wrote a letter to Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD, congratulating him on the launch of a new publication for which Eickhoff was the chief medical editor, Infectious Disease News. In response,...
New and rare infections were a common source of some of our most popular stories in 2024. Travelers returned to the United States with uncommon infections, such as Lassa fever from West Africa and Oropouche virus, an infection endemic in...
Canada’s prison needle exchange programs not only reduce bloodborne infections and injection-related infections but also save healthcare costs. Medscape Medical News
Medscape Medical News spoke with the CDC expert on the current H5N1 situation in the United States and ongoing surveillance of the disease. Medscape Medical News
Los Angeles health officials investigate new cases after felines who had consumed raw milk found with H5 virus Health officials in Los Angeles are investigating three household cats presumed to have bird flu , as officials confirmed the...
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Merck's experimental two-drug combination met the main goal of significantly suppressing replication of the HIV-1 virus in adults receiving another form of therapy in two... Reuters Health Information
France has declared itself to be free of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the absence of new outbreaks for more than a month, though the country remains on high alert... Reuters Health Information
New research shows that the lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on people's immune response to microorganisms. During the lockdown, inflammation level in the body was low, but afterwards, the immune system...
Children and young adults who underwent surgical removal of tonsils or adenoids had a higher risk for stress-related disorders later in life vs. those who did not undergo either procedure, according to a study published in JAMA Network...
Paper published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in 2020 withdrawn by Dutch publisher Elsevier A controversial study that promoted hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a treatment for Covid-19 has officially been...
To guard against harmful waterborne pathogens, many consumers, including managers of health-care facilities, install antimicrobial silver-containing showerheads. But researchers now report that these fixtures are no 'silver bullet.' In...
The CDC on Wednesday confirmed the first severe case of bird flu in the United States. According to the agency, a person in Louisiana was hospitalized with a severe case of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection after having contact...
Researchers made strides this year in the diagnosis and treatment of autism. They also learned more about potential factors that might increase the risk for autism. Researchers found a potential link between prenatal antiseizure...
The U.S. reported its first severe human case of bird flu on Wednesday in a Louisiana resident who is hospitalized in critical condition after suspected contact with an... Reuters Health Information
Study finds 9,000-year-old remains in Americas hold genomes of bacteria family that causes disease After the French king Charles VIII invaded Italy in 1494, an unknown and disfiguring disease erupted in the army camps and duly spread...
Corticosteroids had no effect on mortality rates or serious adverse events in patients with HIV and tuberculosis, showed a recent meta-analysis. Medscape Medical News
After success in Tanzania, other African countries may introduce the rodents to help sniff out the disease Mwajuma Abdalla Ngema went to the clinic in Dar es Salaam with a persistent cough and intense pain around her ribs. The mother of...
A new study shows how one kind of bacteria, Vibrio cholerae, triggers painful intestinal contractions by activating the immune system. The research also finds a more general explanation for how the gut rids itself of unwanted intruders,...
The FDA accepted a biologics license application for Merck’s respiratory syncytial virus immunization, clesrovimab, the company announced Tuesday. Clesrovimab is a monoclonal antibody (mAb) that protects against RSV subtypes A and B....