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Two People In China Being Treated For Plague

CNN (11/13, Yeung) reports on its website two people in China “are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday.” This is “the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has be...

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Seattle Children’s Hospital Shuts Down Operating Rooms For A Second Time Due To Mold Problems

CNN (11/12, Sanchez) reports on its website Seattle Children’s Hospital shut down several areas including operating rooms “for the second time this year due to mold problems, according to the hospital.” The hospital “said routine air tests revealed Asperg...

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Researchers Say Needle Exchange Programs Prevented Thousands Of HIV Infections In Philadelphia And Baltimore

HealthDay (11/12, Preidt) reports researchers say that needle exchange programs prevented thousands of people from becoming infected with HIV in Philadelphia and Baltimore and also saved hundreds of millions of dollars as a result. The article says the re...

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Middle-Income Countries Fare Worse Than Poor, Rich Counterparts When It Comes To Vaccines, Review Suggests

NPR (11/12, Huang) reports that so-called middle income countries tend to fare worse than either their poor or rich counterparts when it comes to rates of vaccination, according to a review published this month in Nature. Beate Kampmann, Director of the V...

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WHO Prequalifies Merck’s Vaccine For Ebola Zaire Virus

Bloomberg (11/12, Park) reports that the World Health Organization “prequalified an ebola vaccine for the first time – Merck’s vaccine, Ervebo – which speeds up licensing, access and roll-out in high-risk countries.” Prequalification “means that vaccine m...

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Researchers Identify New HIV Strain In Group That Has Caused Most Human Infections

The Wall Street Journal (11/6, Rana, Subscription Publication) reports researchers at Abbott Laboratories used advanced technology to identify a new strain of HIV that is part of the group that has caused most human infections. The researchers published t...

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Study Finds Mixed Results For At-Home HPV Test Kits

MedPage Today (11/6, Bennett) reports that “mailing at-home human papillomavirus (HPV) test kits to underscreened women failed to significantly increase the detection or treatment of cervical precancers compared with usual care,” according to a study publ...

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Results From First US Attempt To Study CRISPR In Cancer Patients Indicate The Treatment May Be Safe, Feasible

The New York Times (11/6, Grady) reports in the first US attempt to test the gene-editing technique CRISPR as a cancer treatment, early results suggest “the procedure was feasible and safe.” The study, which was posted online and is to be presented at the...

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Women With HIV May Experience Earlier Menopause Onset, Research Suggests

MedPage Today (11/6, Walker) reports researchers in Canada found “women living with HIV had an average age of menopause onset several years prior to the general population of women, and almost 30% experienced menopause prior to age 45.” The study showed “...

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Dengue Vaccine Candidate Appears Effective In Phase 3 Trial Except Against One Type In People With No Prior Exposure

Reuters (11/6, Steenhuysen) reports Takeda Pharmaceutical’s experimental dengue vaccine appeared to be “highly effective” in a phase 3 trial; however, the vaccine candidate “failed to protect against one type of the virus in people with no prior exposure...

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FDA Approves Next-Gen Assay To Detect HIV-1 Drug Resistance

Medscape (11/6, Subscription Publication) reports the FDA “has approved the Sentosa SQ HIV genotyping assay (Vela Diagnostics USA Inc) that uses next generation sequencing technology to detect HIV-1 drug resistance mutations from a blood sample.” Recent d...

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Trump Administration Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Gilead Sciences

The Washington Post (11/6, Rowland) reports the Trump Administration “took the rare step Wednesday of filing a patent infringement lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturer Gilead Sciences over sales of Truvada for HIV prevention, a crucial therapy inve...

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Research Indicates Increase In ED Visits Related To HCV

Infectious Disease Advisor (11/6, Schad) reports researchers found that “from 2006 to 2014, the number, rate, and cost of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated emergency department (ED) visits increased significantly, especially among baby boomers and Medica...

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DNA-Testing Firm Veritas Genetics Experiences Data Breach Of Customer Information

Bloomberg (11/6) reports “DNA-testing firm Veritas Genetics experienced a security breach that included customer information.” The company explained that its customer facing portal, which was recently accessed by an unauthorized user, did not “contain gen...

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US Maintains Measles-Elimination Status, HHS Says

The Wall Street Journal (10/4, McKay, Subscription Publication) reported the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed on Friday that the US has managed to hold on to its measles-elimination status, despite an outbreak in New York state. Had that...

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Automated Clinical Decision Support During Electronic Order Entry Process May Help Increase Rate Of Blood Testing For AKI Among Pediatric Patients, Study Indicates

Health IT Analytics (10/4, Kent) reported, “Giving clinicians automated clinical decision support during the electronic order entry process helped increase the rate of blood testing for acute kidney injury (AKI) among pediatric patients by nine percent,”...

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Hepatitis A Outbreaks Reportedly Spread Across US

The Wall Street Journal (10/4, Campo-Flores, McKay, Subscription Publication) reported there are many hepatitis A outbreaks across the US. Since hepatitis A outbreaks started in 2016, there have been 30 states that reported cases, totaling over 26,000 and...

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Scientists Worry Climate Change Is Causing Diseases Like EEE, West Nile Virus To Flourish

USA Today (10/5, Weise) reported, “The nation’s changing climate patterns are bringing heatwaves, flooding, warming waters and droughts,” which “in turn alter the environment and the microbes, viruses and insects that inhabit it in ways that can cause the...

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Research Suggests Cefiderocol May Be Noninferior To Standard Care For Patients With Nosocomial Pneumonia

MedPage Today (10/5, Walker) reported researchers found that “the new antibiotic cefiderocol was non-inferior to standard of care for patients with nosocomial pneumonia.” The findings were presented at IDWeek.

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MSM On Grindr May Be More Open to HIV Prevention Than Those Who Are Not, Research Suggests

MedPage Today (10/5, Walker) reported researchers found that “men who have sex with men (MSM) who used the dating app Grindr were more likely to accept an offer of HIV prevention at a sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic in San Diego than non-Grind...

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Two People In China Being Treated For Plague

Seattle Children’s Hospital Shuts Down Operating Rooms For A Second Time Due To Mold Problems

Researchers Say Needle Exchange Programs Prevented Thousands Of HIV Infections In Philadelphia And Baltimore

Middle-Income Countries Fare Worse Than Poor, Rich Counterparts When It Comes To Vaccines, Review Suggests

WHO Prequalifies Merck’s Vaccine For Ebola Zaire Virus

Researchers Identify New HIV Strain In Group That Has Caused Most Human Infections

Study Finds Mixed Results For At-Home HPV Test Kits

Results From First US Attempt To Study CRISPR In Cancer Patients Indicate The Treatment May Be Safe, Feasible

Women With HIV May Experience Earlier Menopause Onset, Research Suggests

Dengue Vaccine Candidate Appears Effective In Phase 3 Trial Except Against One Type In People With No Prior Exposure

FDA Approves Next-Gen Assay To Detect HIV-1 Drug Resistance

Trump Administration Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Gilead Sciences

Research Indicates Increase In ED Visits Related To HCV

DNA-Testing Firm Veritas Genetics Experiences Data Breach Of Customer Information

US Maintains Measles-Elimination Status, HHS Says

Automated Clinical Decision Support During Electronic Order Entry Process May Help Increase Rate Of Blood Testing For AKI Among Pediatric Patients, Study Indicates

Hepatitis A Outbreaks Reportedly Spread Across US

Scientists Worry Climate Change Is Causing Diseases Like EEE, West Nile Virus To Flourish

Research Suggests Cefiderocol May Be Noninferior To Standard Care For Patients With Nosocomial Pneumonia

MSM On Grindr May Be More Open to HIV Prevention Than Those Who Are Not, Research Suggests