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Bacterial Factors May Predict Tuberculosis Treatment Relapse, Study Suggests.

MedPage Today (8/29, Boyles) reports research published in the New England Journal of Medicine discovered that “readily measured bacterial factors appear to predict treatment relapse in patients with drug-susceptible tuberculosis.” The study found that “...

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Type 2 Poliovirus Prevalance Declined Following Withdrawal Of Serotype 2 Oral Vaccine, Study Suggests.

MedPage Today (8/29, Walker) reports that according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Prevalence of type 2 poliovirus declined after the global withdrawal of the serotype 2 oral poliovirus vaccine blamed in part for a resurgence in...

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FDA Warns SGLT2 Inhibitors Can Cause Flesh-Eating Genital Infection.

Bloomberg News (8/29, Cortez) reports the FDA is warning physicians and patients that SGLT2 inhibitors, the “widely used diabetes drugs, may, in some rare cases, cause a flesh-eating bacterial infection of the genitals,” called Fournier’s gangrene. Twelv...

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Johns Hopkins Hospital Biocontainment Unit Leads Training On Infectious Disease, Bioterrorism.

The Baltimore Sun (8/29, McDaniels) reports Johns Hopkins Hospital is conducting training exercises at its Biocontainment Unit, “one of 10 regional centers across the country designed to respond to outbreaks of highly infectious diseases or bioterrorism...

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New Cases Of STDs Increased For Fourth Consecutive Year, CDC Says.

Bloomberg News (8/28, Edney) reports there was “a record number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in 2017, marking the fourth straight year of sharp increases in gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, according to preliminary data from the Centers fo...

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Researchers Find Increase In Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infections.

HealthDay (8/28, Preidt) reports a study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine found that drug-resistant bacteria “caused nearly 6 percent of urinary tract infections (UTIs) analyzed” by Alameda Health System Highland Hospital in Oakland, California....

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Researchers Develop New Process For Purifying Stem Cells For Treatment Of Parkinson’s Disease.

Parkinson’s News Today (8/28, Melão) reports researchers developed a new process for selecting and purifying “stem cells that hold therapeutic potential to replace dopamine-producing neurons may hasten clinical development of this promising avenue to tre...

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Number Of People At Risk Of Ocular Syphilis May Be Increasing In Industrialized Countries, Study Suggests.

Newsweek (8/28, Georgiou) reports researchers found that “increasing numbers of people in industrialized countries are at risk from permanent damage to their vision as a result of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis.” Justine Smith, one of the stud...

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Congo Republic Finds Yellow Fever Case Near Angolan Enclave.

Reuters (8/28, Elion, Bouka) reports the Congo Republic’s health ministry “has confirmed a case of yellow fever near the border with an Angolan enclave” and is warning of what it called “an emerging event of epidemic proportions.” So far this year, “186...

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China Agriculture Ministry Says It Cannot Rule Out Further African Swine Fever Outbreaks.

Reuters (8/29, Gu, Mason) reports that China’s agriculture ministry said Wednesday it cannot rule out the possibility of new African swine fever outbreaks in the country. According to the article, “It is not clear how widely the disease has spread, and t...

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Colorado To Pay $41M To Resolve Inmates’ Suit Over Hepatitis C Treatment.

The Denver Post (8/28, Mitchell) reports that four Colorado prisoners who claimed in a lawsuit they were not adequately treated for hepatitis C “have reached a $41 million settlement with the state that ensures all infected inmates will be treated for th...

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Despite Slight Increases, HPV Vaccination Rates Still Lag Behind CDC’s Goal.

Fierce Pharma (8/28, Sagonowsky) reports that despite efforts by the US CDC to improve HPV vaccination, increases to vaccination rates have only been “slight”: CDC data show “65.5% of adolescents received at least one dose of an HPV shot, while 48.6% com...

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NICE Rejects CAR-T Cancer Cell Therapy For Being Too Expensive.

Reuters (8/28, Hirschler) reports the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence rejected Gilead Sciences’ “cutting-edge CAR-T cell therapy for otherwise treatable forms of blood cancer” because its Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) product...

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Nobel-Winning Scientist Behind The New RNAi Drug Spotlighted.

STAT Plus (8/28, Farber, Subscription Publication) profiles Nobel Prize winner Craig Mello, whose prize-winning work on RNA interference (RNAi) showed that “snippets” of RNA, “which typically serve as the blueprint for manufacturing the body’s proteins,...

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Algeria’s Health Minister Says Cholera Outbreak Under Control.

The AP (8/27) reports the Algerian government has rejected calls by trade unions “to delay the start of the new school year because of a cholera outbreak that has caused two deaths and infected dozens.” According to Health Minister Mokhtar Hasbellaoui, “...

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Immune Cells Respond To Brain Injuries Using Channels Between Skull Bone Marrow And Brain Lining, Research In Mice Suggests.

HealthDay (8/27, Preidt) reports researchers found in mice that “immune cells use channels that run from skull bone marrow to the lining of the brain to rapidly respond to stroke and other brain injuries.” The findings were published in Nature Neuroscien...

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Scientists Discover New Type Of Brain Cell In People.

The NPR (8/27, Hamilton) “Shots” blog reports scientists have discovered “rose hip neurons,” which exist “in people but not mice.” The findings were published in Nature Neuroscience. Joshua Gordon, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health,...

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Protein Analysis Of Tears May Identify People With Parkinson’s Disease, Study Suggests.

Parkinson’s News Today (8/27, Melão) reports researchers found that “an analysis of the protein content in tears may offer a non-invasive and inexpensive way of identifying people with probable Parkinson’s disease.” The findings were presented at the 201...

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China Has Yet To Provide Flu Virus Samples As Agreed.

The New York Times (8/27, Baumgaertner) reports that despite an international agreement established by the World Health Organization, “U.S. health authorities still have not received H7N9 avian flu specimens from their Chinese counterparts” more than a y...

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Congo Ebola Patients Recover With Experimental Treatment As Others Become Infected.

On its website, CNN (8/27, Senthilingam) reports two of the first 16 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo “to receive an experimental treatment for Ebola have recovered” as the outbreak continues in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, the World Health...

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Bacterial Factors May Predict Tuberculosis Treatment Relapse, Study Suggests.

Type 2 Poliovirus Prevalance Declined Following Withdrawal Of Serotype 2 Oral Vaccine, Study Suggests.

FDA Warns SGLT2 Inhibitors Can Cause Flesh-Eating Genital Infection.

Johns Hopkins Hospital Biocontainment Unit Leads Training On Infectious Disease, Bioterrorism.

New Cases Of STDs Increased For Fourth Consecutive Year, CDC Says.

Researchers Find Increase In Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infections.

Researchers Develop New Process For Purifying Stem Cells For Treatment Of Parkinson’s Disease.

Number Of People At Risk Of Ocular Syphilis May Be Increasing In Industrialized Countries, Study Suggests.

Congo Republic Finds Yellow Fever Case Near Angolan Enclave.

China Agriculture Ministry Says It Cannot Rule Out Further African Swine Fever Outbreaks.

Colorado To Pay $41M To Resolve Inmates’ Suit Over Hepatitis C Treatment.

Despite Slight Increases, HPV Vaccination Rates Still Lag Behind CDC’s Goal.

NICE Rejects CAR-T Cancer Cell Therapy For Being Too Expensive.

Nobel-Winning Scientist Behind The New RNAi Drug Spotlighted.

Algeria’s Health Minister Says Cholera Outbreak Under Control.

Immune Cells Respond To Brain Injuries Using Channels Between Skull Bone Marrow And Brain Lining, Research In Mice Suggests.

Scientists Discover New Type Of Brain Cell In People.

Protein Analysis Of Tears May Identify People With Parkinson’s Disease, Study Suggests.

China Has Yet To Provide Flu Virus Samples As Agreed.

Congo Ebola Patients Recover With Experimental Treatment As Others Become Infected.