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Manhattan Legionnaires’ Outbreak Kills One, Sickens 15.

The Wall Street Journal (10/10, West, Subscription Publication) reports New York City health officials said Wednesday one person has died amid an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that has caused a cluster of 16 cases in the Manhattan neighborhood of Was...

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ART May Reduce Neurocognitive Impairment In HIV-Positive Patients, Study Suggests.

Infectious Disease Advisor (10/10, Dellabella) reports research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that initiating “antiretroviral therapy (ART) may reduce the risk for neurocognitive impairment in patients living with HIV.” Researchers r...

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Walgreens To Open 600 Medical Testing Locations In Its US Stores.

Bloomberg News (10/10, Armstrong) reports Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. will open at least 600 medical testing sites in its drugstores operated by Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings. According to Bloomberg News, “The collaboration is an attempt to comp...

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Justice Department Approves CVS, Aetna Merger.

The Wall Street Journal (10/10, Mathews, Maidenberg, Subscription Publication) reports that on Wednesday, the Department of Justice gave its approval to CVS’ Health Corp.’s acquisition of Aetna Inc. USA Today (10/10, Snider) reports, “CVS must divest Aet...

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Health Authorities Investigating Spike In Cases Of Rare Polio-Like Disorder In Children.

The New York Times (10/10, Hauser) reports health authorities said this week they are investigating an unusual spike in cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). Since September, six cases of AFM in children younger than age 10 have been reported in Minneso...

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Early Third Trimester Maternal Immunization With Tdap Vaccine May Result In Higher Pertussis Antibody Concentrations In Neonates, Study Suggests.

Medscape (10/9, Garcia, Subscription Publication) reports, “Maternal immunization with tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine early in the third trimester results in higher pertussis antibody concentrations in neonates compared with...

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Thyroid Nodules With Atypia On Repeat Fine-Needle Aspiration Have Different Malignancy Risks Depending On Type Of Genetic Mutation, Study Indicates.

MedPage Today (10/9, Kuznar) reports that research indicates “thyroid nodules with atypia on repeat fine-needle aspiration (FNA) have different risks of malignancy depending on the type of genetic mutation.” In more than “200 patients who had atypia or f...

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Protective Flu Vaccine Candidate Clears Early Human Test.

Fierce Vaccines (10/9, Liu) reports that FluGen’s a novel vaccine that prevents multiple strains of flu, RedeeFlu, was found to be “safe and well-tolerated” in an early-phase human trial involving 96 adults. The company is also working with NIH’s Nationa...

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Colorado Investigates Outbreak Of Viral Infection Among 41 Children.

The Denver Post (10/9, Tabachnik) reports the Colorado Department of Health announced it will investigate “an unprecedented outbreak of rare viral infections with neurological complications among young children,” most of whom are under three years of age...

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Startups Targeting Antibiotic Resistance Crisis.

CNBC (10/9, Ioannou) reports on the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. The article profiles Peter Thiel’s “seed-stage fund” Breakout Labs and its investments in SciBac, a company that is “developing a microbe pill to boost the body’s microbiome in...

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After Prison, People With HIV Struggle For Access To Healthcare, Study Indicates.

NPR (10/9, Boerner) reports a study published in PLoS Medicine followed people with HIV as they were released back into the community from prison and found that access to healthcare after imprisonment is a problem. The researchers found “that most people...

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Fatal Lyme Disease Cases Spark Concern Among Experts, Advocates.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (10/9, Avril) reports Lyme disease, “well-established in public awareness, especially in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other northeastern states that are perennial hotbeds of the debilitating condition,” now is troubling experts...

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Three More Cases Of Rare Polio-Like Illness Reported.

The CBS Evening News (10/9, story 6, 1:40, Glor) reported that in Pittsburgh, there are three new cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare illness with symptoms similar to polio. The cases follow an “unusual rise this year” in incidence of the illne...

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HPV Vaccine Now Approved For Men And Women Aged 27 To 45, FDA Says.

The New York Times (10/5, Grady, Hoffman) reported that “the HPV vaccine...is now approved for men and women from 27 to 45-years-old, the Food and Drug Administration said” yesterday. CNN (10/5, Lamotte) reports that the agency “said it based the expansi...

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Just One-Third Of Youth With Documented Opioid Use Disorder Tested For HCV, Research Indicates.

MedPage Today (10/5, Walker) reports that “only a little over a third of youth with documented opioid use disorder were tested for hepatitis C, and of those, one in ten were positive for exposure to HCV, according to research presented” at “the IDWeek an...

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CRISPR Technique May Allow Way To Treat Genetic Diseases Before Birth, Mouse Study Suggests.

STAT (10/8, Begley) reports researchers said Monday that they have used the CRISPR gene editing technique to change the DNA of lab mice in the womb to eliminate an “often-fatal liver disease” called hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 before the babies are bor...

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Detroit’s High HIV Rate Driven In Part By Lack Of Access To Affordable Care.

In a feature, the Detroit Free Press (10/7, Stafford, Tanner) reported on drivers behind Detroit’s high HIV rate, which is more than four times higher than the Michigan average. While the overall number new cases of HIV in Michigan “has remained relative...

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Instability, Violence Jeopardize Ebola Response In Congo As Case Count Rises.

Bloomberg News (10/8, Clowes, Ssuuna) reports increasing instability along the Democratic Republic of Congo’s border has prompted Rwanda and Uganda to amplify surveillance efforts amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo, which “has killed at least 113 pe...

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Typhus Outbreak Strikes Downtown Los Angeles.

The New York Post (10/6, Dorn) reports a typhus outbreak in downtown Los Angeles has reached “epidemic levels,” which some experts are blaming “on the city’s ever-expanding homeless population.” So far, 20 cases “have been recorded in Pasadena alone over...

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Nearly Half Of Antibiotics Given Without Infection-Related Diagnosis, Study Suggests.

HealthDay (10/5, Norton) reports that “after years of public health warnings about antibiotic misuse,” research “suggests the problem is far from being solved.” Investigators “found that of more than 500,000 antibiotic prescriptions they analyzed, nearly...

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Manhattan Legionnaires’ Outbreak Kills One, Sickens 15.

ART May Reduce Neurocognitive Impairment In HIV-Positive Patients, Study Suggests.

Walgreens To Open 600 Medical Testing Locations In Its US Stores.

Justice Department Approves CVS, Aetna Merger.

Health Authorities Investigating Spike In Cases Of Rare Polio-Like Disorder In Children.

Early Third Trimester Maternal Immunization With Tdap Vaccine May Result In Higher Pertussis Antibody Concentrations In Neonates, Study Suggests.

Thyroid Nodules With Atypia On Repeat Fine-Needle Aspiration Have Different Malignancy Risks Depending On Type Of Genetic Mutation, Study Indicates.

Protective Flu Vaccine Candidate Clears Early Human Test.

Colorado Investigates Outbreak Of Viral Infection Among 41 Children.

Startups Targeting Antibiotic Resistance Crisis.

After Prison, People With HIV Struggle For Access To Healthcare, Study Indicates.

Fatal Lyme Disease Cases Spark Concern Among Experts, Advocates.

Three More Cases Of Rare Polio-Like Illness Reported.

HPV Vaccine Now Approved For Men And Women Aged 27 To 45, FDA Says.

Just One-Third Of Youth With Documented Opioid Use Disorder Tested For HCV, Research Indicates.

CRISPR Technique May Allow Way To Treat Genetic Diseases Before Birth, Mouse Study Suggests.

Detroit’s High HIV Rate Driven In Part By Lack Of Access To Affordable Care.

Instability, Violence Jeopardize Ebola Response In Congo As Case Count Rises.

Typhus Outbreak Strikes Downtown Los Angeles.

Nearly Half Of Antibiotics Given Without Infection-Related Diagnosis, Study Suggests.