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CDC’s ACIP Chair Says Group May Release Recommendations On Dengue Vaccine This Year

Healio (3/12, Downey) reports CDC’s ACIP “could make recommendations on the use of a newly approved dengue vaccine in U.S. children as early as October, the chair of the ACIP’s dengue vaccines work group said.” Dr. Robert Atmar, the chair of the group, sa...

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WHO Says Spread Of Coronavirus Is Now A Pandemic

The Wall Street Journal (3/11, McKay, Ansari, Calfas, Subscription Publication) reports the WHO is now describing the spread of coronavirus as a pandemic, the first time the organization has declared a pandemic since the H1N1 flu in 2009. The AP (3/11, Ke...

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FDA Approves Cytology Test As First Biomarker-Based Triage Test For Cervical Cancer In Women With HPV

OncLive (3/11, Broderick) reports the FDA approved Roche’s “CINtec® PLUS Cytology test as the first biomarker-based triage test for women whose primary cervical cancer screening results are positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV) using the cobas® 4800...

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Liquid Biopsies Might Be Able To Target DNA Of Pathogens Released By Tumors Rather Than Human DNA From Cancerous Cells, Study Suggests

STAT (3/11, Robbins) reports a study published in Nature suggests that scientists might be able to develop liquid biopsies that can detect cancer by searching “for the DNA of bacteria and viruses released from tumors into the bloodstream.” The article say...

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Patients With Most Severe Degree Of HIV May Be At Greater Risk For Developing HF, Researchers Say

Healio (3/11, Swain) reports, “Those with the most severe degree of HIV are at greater risk for developing” heart failure (HF), investigators concluded after analyzing data on “participants of Kaiser Permanente integrated health care delivery systems in N...

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Researchers Say Triple Combination Therapy May Improve Outcomes In Patients With Highly Drug-Resistant TB

Healio (3/11, Foster) reports researchers found in an ongoing, open-label trial in South Africa that “combination therapy with bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid led to favorable outcomes in most patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis [TB].”...

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Low-Dose Daily Aspirin Might Lower Risk Of Liver Cancer In Patients With Hepatitis B Or C, Study Suggests

Healio (3/11, DeRosier) reports researchers found in a retrospective study that “low-dose aspirin use appeared associated with significantly lower risk for hepatocellular carcinoma and lower liver-related mortality among patients with chronic viral hepati...

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Trump Suspends Travel From Europe To US For 30 Days

Reuters (3/12, Holland, Alper) reports that in an Oval Office speech Wednesday, President Trump “suspended travel from Europe to the United States, except for the UK, for 30 days starting on Friday.” The Hill (3/11, Samuels, Chalfant) reports, “A proclama...

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Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer Have Threefold Higher Prevalence Of Pathogenic Variants In Breast Cancer-Associated Genes, Study Finds

Healio (3/10, Southall) reports, “Postmenopausal women with breast cancer had a threefold higher prevalence of pathogenic variants in breast cancer-associated genes than their cancer-free counterparts, according to results of a case-control study publishe...

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CDC Director Tells Congress That Around 4,900 People Have Been Tested For Coronavirus In Public Health Laboratories In The US

Reuters (3/10, Erman) reports CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told Congress that around 4,900 people have been tested for coronavirus in public health laboratories in the US. The article says “that number does not include Americans who have been tested i...

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Researchers Say There Is No Genetic Correlation Between Myopia And Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

Healio (3/10, VanDewater) says researchers examined data from the Australian and New Zealand Registry of Advanced Glaucoma and the Rotterdam Study and “reported that there was no genetic correlation between myopia and primary open-angle glaucoma.” The res...

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Researchers Discover New Species Related To Chlamydia Under Arctic Ocean

CNN (3/10, Kaur) reports “researchers discovered several new chlamydia-related species deep below the Arctic Ocean, in a place with no oxygen and without an apparent host organism.” The researchers published their findings (PDF) in Current Biology.

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Among People With HIV, Those With Insomnia May Have Great Risk For Type 2 MI Than Those Without HIV, Researchers Say

Healio (3/10, Buzby) reports, “Among individuals living with HIV, those with insomnia had greater risk for type 2 MI, but not type 1 MI, than those without it,” researchers concluded. In the study “cohort of 10,948 people living with HIV (mean age, 43 yea...

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Researchers Say Black Patients With HIV Maintained Viral Load Suppression When Switched To New Regimens

MedPage Today (3/10, Susman) reports researchers found that “self-identified black or African-American patients with HIV maintained viral load suppression when switched to new regimens.” The article says that “in the randomized, open-label BRAAVE (B/F/TAF...

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Australian Study Supports Notion Of “Treatment As Prevention” For HIV

MedPage Today (3/10, Walker) reports researchers in Australia found that “community-level HIV viremia was associated with decreasing HIV incidence in a real-world example of the population-level impact of ‘treatment as prevention’ in” the two Australian s...

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Coronavirus Continues To Spread Across US With More States Taking Emergency Action

The AP (3/10, Villeneuve, Rodriguez) reports there are now “alarming clusters of the coronavirus” on both sides of the US “with 70 cases now tied to a biotech conference in Boston and infections turning up at 10 nursing homes in hard-hit Washington state....

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FDA Halts Routine Inspections Overseas Through April Due To Coronavirus

The New York Times (3/10, Kaplan, Thomas) reports the FDA announced “it would stop routine inspections of food, drugs and medical devices overseas through April, citing the worldwide spread of the coronavirus.” The agency previously withdrew its inspector...

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New York Governor Orders One-Mile Containment Zone In New Rochelle In Effort To Curb Spread Of Coronavirus

The Washington Post (3/10, Guarino, Bailey, Horton) reports New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered “a one-mile containment zone in New Rochelle, the epicenter of the state’s outbreak, to curb the spread of the coronavirus on the doorstep of New York City.” Un...

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Researchers Say People Shed High Amounts Of Coronavirus Early In Their Infections

STAT (3/9, Branswell) reports researchers in Germany found that “people who contract the novel coronavirus emit high amounts of virus very early on in their infection.” The study was published in the BMJ and “suggests that while people with mild infection...

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So Far This Flu Season, There Have Been 20,000 To 40,000 Flu-Related Deaths, CDC Estimates

NPR (3/9, Palca) that even though US health officials are now waiting “to see just how bad a public health challenge COVID-19 will pose, they still have to deal with” influenza. The CDC estimates that so far this flu season, the US has “had between 30 and...

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CDC’s ACIP Chair Says Group May Release Recommendations On Dengue Vaccine This Year

WHO Says Spread Of Coronavirus Is Now A Pandemic

FDA Approves Cytology Test As First Biomarker-Based Triage Test For Cervical Cancer In Women With HPV

Liquid Biopsies Might Be Able To Target DNA Of Pathogens Released By Tumors Rather Than Human DNA From Cancerous Cells, Study Suggests

Patients With Most Severe Degree Of HIV May Be At Greater Risk For Developing HF, Researchers Say

Researchers Say Triple Combination Therapy May Improve Outcomes In Patients With Highly Drug-Resistant TB

Low-Dose Daily Aspirin Might Lower Risk Of Liver Cancer In Patients With Hepatitis B Or C, Study Suggests

Trump Suspends Travel From Europe To US For 30 Days

Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer Have Threefold Higher Prevalence Of Pathogenic Variants In Breast Cancer-Associated Genes, Study Finds

CDC Director Tells Congress That Around 4,900 People Have Been Tested For Coronavirus In Public Health Laboratories In The US

Researchers Say There Is No Genetic Correlation Between Myopia And Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

Researchers Discover New Species Related To Chlamydia Under Arctic Ocean

Among People With HIV, Those With Insomnia May Have Great Risk For Type 2 MI Than Those Without HIV, Researchers Say

Researchers Say Black Patients With HIV Maintained Viral Load Suppression When Switched To New Regimens

Australian Study Supports Notion Of “Treatment As Prevention” For HIV

Coronavirus Continues To Spread Across US With More States Taking Emergency Action

FDA Halts Routine Inspections Overseas Through April Due To Coronavirus

New York Governor Orders One-Mile Containment Zone In New Rochelle In Effort To Curb Spread Of Coronavirus

Researchers Say People Shed High Amounts Of Coronavirus Early In Their Infections

So Far This Flu Season, There Have Been 20,000 To 40,000 Flu-Related Deaths, CDC Estimates