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Malaysia To Work With UNICEF On Polio Vaccination Campaign After First Case In Almost Three Decades

Reuters (12/15, Sipalan) reports Malaysian health officials announced “they are working with UNICEF to bring polio vaccines to the state of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, where the country’s first polio case in nearly three decades was detected last week.” On...

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Researchers Identify Potential Drugs For Blocking Nipah Virus

Reuters (12/12, Kelland) reports researchers have identified “a dozen potential drugs that might be developed to block” Nipah virus, “a highly infectious and deadly” pathogen “transmitted to humans from bats and pigs.” For a study published in PLOS Neglec...

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Researchers Develop AI Algorithm To Identify Cancer Cells In Digital Pathology Images

AI in Healthcare (12/12, Walter) reports researchers “developed an AI algorithm” called ConvPath “that can identify cancer cells in digital pathology images” and published their findings in EBioMedicine. In a statement, Guanghua Xiao, PhD, a professor at...

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Sputum Isolates Of Mycobacterium Abscessus May Not Represent Full Diversity Because There May Be Subclones With Different Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles, Study Indicates

Infectious Disease Advisor (12/12, van Paridon) reports a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that “sputum isolates of Mycobacterium abscessus may not reflect a patient’s full bacterial diversity because subclones with differing antim...

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Study Identifies Eight Psychiatric Disorders That Share A Common Genetic Structure

Healio (12/12, Gramigna) reports investigators “have identified eight psychiatric disorders that share a common genetic structure.” For the study, researchers “used genome-wide association analyses of 232,964 individuals diagnosed with one of eight psychi...

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Seattle Elementary School Cancelled After 100 Students, Staff Called Out Sick With Potential Norovirus

Forbes (12/13, Lee) reports Leschi Elementary School in Seattle, Washington, is closed today due to illness. As KOMO News reported, “over 100 students and staff have already called out sick with symptoms consistent with norovirus infections.” Forbes state...

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Deficiencies In Cleveland’s HIV/AIDS Program Include Failure To Test Highest Risk Populations

The Cleveland Plain Dealer (12/10, Dissell) reports that several of the deficiencies the Ohio Department of Health “cited as reasons for not renewing Cleveland’s $1.5 million HIV/AIDS grant are core to preventing infection and eradicating the epidemic, ex...

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CVS Says Some Cancer Patients With Aetna Insurance Will Have Easier Access To Broad Genetic Testing

Reuters (12/12, Humer, Steenhuysen) reports CVS Health Corp announced “it will make it easier for patients with advanced cancer enrolled in some Aetna insurance plans to receive broad genetic gene sequencing tests that can help identify the best drug or t...

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Few Childcare Centers Require Children To Get Flu Shot, Childcare Workers To Be Vaccinated, Research Indicates

Reuters (12/12, Steenhuysen) reports research indicates “only a quarter of childcare centers in the United States require children in their care to get a flu shot, and even fewer require childcare workers to be vaccinated.” Investigators arrived at this c...

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Experts Discuss Ways To Improve Global Pandemic Preparedness At Event 201

Forbes (12/12, Stone) provides coverage of a pandemic preparedness exercise called Event 201, “a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” Experts attending th...

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New Jersey Senate Committee To Consider Bill Banning Religious Exemptions To Vaccinations

NJ News (12/12, Livio) reports a New Jersey Senate committee “is scheduled to hold a public hearing on” legislation that “would repeal the religious exemption that has enabled thousands of children avoid vaccinations required to attend school.” The bill,...

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Researchers Identify Genetic Mutation Associated With Increased Risk Of Heart Failure In Black People

The Washington Post (12/11, Beachum) reports a new study suggests an “underdiagnosed genetic mutation in people of African descent carries an increased risk for heart failure.” When present in those patients, “a genetic variant, TTR V122I, could lead to a...

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Two Studies Identify Mutations In RIPK1 Gene In Families With Autoimmune Symptoms

FierceBiotech (12/11, Liu) reports two studies published in Nature suggests that the RIPK1 gene may play a role in autoinflammatory diseases. In one study, researchers “identified three families whose members suffered from similar autoimmune symptoms and...

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Researchers Say CA-125 Is Helpful For Identifying Ovarian Cancer In Primary Care

Healio (12/11, Miller) reports researchers concluded that “CA-125 is a valuable tool to help identify ovarian cancer in women in primary care.” The researchers “reviewed the records of 50,780 women in England with potential signs of ovarian cancer, includ...

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Research Suggests Diabetes Treatment Does Not Mask Or Reduce PSA Levels

Prostate Cancer News Today (12/11, Wexler) reports researchers found that “common treatments for diabetes don’t appear to mask or reduce levels of” prostate specific antigen (PSA) in men with diabetes. The “large population-based study from Sweden” publis...

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FDG-PET/MRI Found Not As Accurate As Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy For Staging Of Breast Cancer

Aunt Minnie (12/11, Forrest) reports on a study presented at RSNA 2019 in Chicago finding that “although FDG-PET/MRI shows promise for accurate staging of breast cancer, the modality still isn’t as accurate as sentinel lymph node biopsy.” Aunt Minnie adds...

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Research Suggests Some Patients In Remission From Follicular Lymphoma May Be “Cured”

HealthDay (12/11, Reinberg) reports a small study presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting suggests that “some patients in remission from the blood cancer called follicular lymphoma can be considered cured.” The researchers used DNA...

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Study Finds Incidence OF IPD, CAP Greater Among People With HIV Than In General Population In The Netherlands

Infectious Disease Advisor (12/11) reports on a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases finding that “the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is >7-times higher in people living with HIV (PLWHIV) compared with the general population i...

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China Reports African Swine Fever Found In Three Dead Wild Boars

Reuters (12/11, Daly) reports, “China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that African swine fever had been detected in three dead wild boars in northwestern Shaanxi province.” The disease “was found in wild boar in China in November 2018.”

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New Drug Application For Fostemsavir Submitted To FDA

Infectious Disease Advisor (12/11, Park) reports, “The New Drug Application (NDA) for fostemsavir (ViiV Healthcare), a first-in-class HIV-1 attachment inhibitor for the treatment of HIV-1 infection, has been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (...

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Malaysia To Work With UNICEF On Polio Vaccination Campaign After First Case In Almost Three Decades

Researchers Identify Potential Drugs For Blocking Nipah Virus

Researchers Develop AI Algorithm To Identify Cancer Cells In Digital Pathology Images

Sputum Isolates Of Mycobacterium Abscessus May Not Represent Full Diversity Because There May Be Subclones With Different Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles, Study Indicates

Study Identifies Eight Psychiatric Disorders That Share A Common Genetic Structure

Seattle Elementary School Cancelled After 100 Students, Staff Called Out Sick With Potential Norovirus

Deficiencies In Cleveland’s HIV/AIDS Program Include Failure To Test Highest Risk Populations

CVS Says Some Cancer Patients With Aetna Insurance Will Have Easier Access To Broad Genetic Testing

Few Childcare Centers Require Children To Get Flu Shot, Childcare Workers To Be Vaccinated, Research Indicates

Experts Discuss Ways To Improve Global Pandemic Preparedness At Event 201

New Jersey Senate Committee To Consider Bill Banning Religious Exemptions To Vaccinations

Researchers Identify Genetic Mutation Associated With Increased Risk Of Heart Failure In Black People

Two Studies Identify Mutations In RIPK1 Gene In Families With Autoimmune Symptoms

Researchers Say CA-125 Is Helpful For Identifying Ovarian Cancer In Primary Care

Research Suggests Diabetes Treatment Does Not Mask Or Reduce PSA Levels

FDG-PET/MRI Found Not As Accurate As Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy For Staging Of Breast Cancer

Research Suggests Some Patients In Remission From Follicular Lymphoma May Be “Cured”

Study Finds Incidence OF IPD, CAP Greater Among People With HIV Than In General Population In The Netherlands

China Reports African Swine Fever Found In Three Dead Wild Boars

New Drug Application For Fostemsavir Submitted To FDA