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Extended Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Course May Not Provide Clinical Cure For Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis In Pediatric Patients, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/28, Nye) reports an extended amoxicillin-clavulanate course “for children with chronic wet cough resulted in a longer cough-free period but did not lead to a clinical cure for possible protracted bacterial bronchitis, accordi...

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Combination Of Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID-19 Doses May Be Effective, Study Suggests

The New York Times (6/28, Zimmer) reports that “early results from a British vaccine study suggest that mixing different brands of vaccines can provoke a protective immune response against COVID-19. In the trial, volunteers produced high levels of antibod...

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Third Dose Of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Boosts Immune Response, Study Suggests

The New York Times (6/28, Robbins) reports, “A third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford generated a strong immune response in clinical trial volunteers, Oxford researchers reported on Monday.” The data have...

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Delta COVID-19 Variant Most Transmissible Identified So Far, WHO Head Says

The AP (6/25, Cheng) reported World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday “said the COVID-19 delta variant, first seen in India, is ‘the most transmissible of the variants identified so far,’ and warned it is now spread...

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Blood Test Designed To Detect As Many As 50 Different Types Of Cancer Appears To Be Accurate And Reliable, Researchers Say

HealthDay (6/25, Mozes) reported that “a new one-and-done blood test designed to detect as many as 50 different types of cancer” appears to be “accurate and reliable at identifying and locating cancer, including some kinds for which there are now no effec...

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Volunteers In West Virginia Seek Public Health Emergency To Address Rising HIV Cases

The AP (6/26, Raby) reported volunteers in Kanawha County, West Virginia “formed the letters ‘HIV SOS’ at a health event Saturday as activists seek a public health emergency declaration in a city with one of the nation’s highest spikes of such cases.” The...

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Mosquito Batch Tests Positive For Jamestown Canyon Virus In New Hampshire

The AP (6/25) reported that on Friday, New Hampshire DHHS reported a batch of mosquitoes “tested positive for the Jamestown Canyon virus.” The department has not “identified the disease in a human this year. Since the first report of the disease in New Ha...

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Sudden Cardiac Death Is More Common Among Patients With HIV, Research Indicates

Cardiovascular Business (6/25, Walter) reported, “Sudden cardiac death is more common among patients with HIV, according to new research.” In the study, “the observed rate of presumed sudden cardiac death among people with HIV was 53.3 per 100,000 person-...

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Millions Of Brazilians Are Missing Their Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose, Further Complicating Rollout

The New York Times (6/27, Ionova) reports, “Millions of people in Brazil are missing their second doses of Covid-19 vaccine, further complicating a campaign already marred by supply shortages and allegations of graft.” The excuses “for people missing thei...

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Mortality Higher Among Black Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19, Study Finds

Healio (6/26, Stulpin) reported, “Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had higher rates of hospital mortality and discharge to hospice compared with white patients,” and “the differences could be attributed to differences in the hospitals to which th...

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Sepsis Prediction Tool Used By Hospitals Misses Majority Of Cases, Study Suggests

The Washington Post (6/26, Blakemore) reported that a new study found “a sepsis prediction tool used by hundreds of U.S. hospitals may miss many cases.” Epic Systems developed the tool and disputed those findings. The study team “used hospital data from o...

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FDA Adds Heart Inflammation Warnings To Literature Accompanying Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines

Reuters (6/26, Ponnezhath) reported the FDA added on Friday “a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc/BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use.” For each vaccine, the agency revi...

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WHO Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Likely To Be Needed Yearly For Most Vulnerable

Reuters (6/24, Guarascio) reports, “The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that people most vulnerable to COVID-19, such as the elderly, will need to get an annual vaccine booster to be protected against variants, an internal document seen by Reute...

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FDA Gives Emergency Authorization To First Saliva-Based COVID-19 Antibody Test

FierceBiotech (6/24, Hale) reports the FDA granted emergency authorization to Diabetomics’ rapid mouth swab COVID-19 antibody tests, the first “that doesn’t use blood samples to check for evidence of a COVID-19 infection. ... Designed to deliver a result...

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MDR Enterobacterales Colonization, Infections Common Following Transplant, Results Show

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/24, Gupta) reports, “Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Enterobacterales colonized in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract was found to be an independent risk factor for infections in patients following liver, lung, or small bowel transpla...

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Initial Syphilis Acquired Immunity May Attenuate Treponema Pallidum Infection, Study Suggests

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/24, Gupta) reports, “Acquired immunity resulting from an initial episode of syphilis may attenuate subsequent infection with Treponema pallidum,” researchers concluded in a 651-patient study published in Clinical Infectious D...

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Nearly All COVID-19 Fatalities In US Among Unvaccinated Patients, Data Show

The AP (6/24, Johnson, Stobbe) reports “only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19” fatalities in the US last month “were in fully vaccinated people,” and “‘breakthrough’ infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more th...

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Research Identifies Antibody Levels Needed To Prevent Symptomatic COVID-19 Infection

Reuters (6/24, Aripaka) reports UK investigators “have identified the level of antibody protection needed to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, the University of Oxford said on Thursday, adding that results from the study could help speed up new vaccine develo...

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Weaknesses Of Flu Medication Oseltamivir Phosphate Suggest Challenges For Similar COVID-19 Treatments

Bloomberg Law (6/24, Torrence, Subscription Publication) reports that the weaknesses of flu medication Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) “suggest that devising a similarly simple treatment for Covid-19 will be challenging.” According to the article, “Last w...

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Infratentorial Abnormalities May Be Predictive Of Ophthalmic Abnormalities In CZS, Study Says

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/24, Gupta) reports, “Infratentorial abnormalities were found to be a strong predictor of ophthalmic abnormalities in children with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS),” study results show. Researchers found “a statistically signif...

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Extended Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Course May Not Provide Clinical Cure For Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis In Pediatric Patients, Study Finds

Combination Of Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID-19 Doses May Be Effective, Study Suggests

Third Dose Of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Boosts Immune Response, Study Suggests

Delta COVID-19 Variant Most Transmissible Identified So Far, WHO Head Says

Blood Test Designed To Detect As Many As 50 Different Types Of Cancer Appears To Be Accurate And Reliable, Researchers Say

Volunteers In West Virginia Seek Public Health Emergency To Address Rising HIV Cases

Mosquito Batch Tests Positive For Jamestown Canyon Virus In New Hampshire

Sudden Cardiac Death Is More Common Among Patients With HIV, Research Indicates

Millions Of Brazilians Are Missing Their Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose, Further Complicating Rollout

Mortality Higher Among Black Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19, Study Finds

Sepsis Prediction Tool Used By Hospitals Misses Majority Of Cases, Study Suggests

FDA Adds Heart Inflammation Warnings To Literature Accompanying Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines

WHO Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Likely To Be Needed Yearly For Most Vulnerable

FDA Gives Emergency Authorization To First Saliva-Based COVID-19 Antibody Test

MDR Enterobacterales Colonization, Infections Common Following Transplant, Results Show

Initial Syphilis Acquired Immunity May Attenuate Treponema Pallidum Infection, Study Suggests

Nearly All COVID-19 Fatalities In US Among Unvaccinated Patients, Data Show

Research Identifies Antibody Levels Needed To Prevent Symptomatic COVID-19 Infection

Weaknesses Of Flu Medication Oseltamivir Phosphate Suggest Challenges For Similar COVID-19 Treatments

Infratentorial Abnormalities May Be Predictive Of Ophthalmic Abnormalities In CZS, Study Says