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Self-Testing For HIV In Zimbabwe Helps People Beat Stigma, Seek Treatment Earlier.

Reuters (8/6, Moyo) reports on the rising number of people in Zimbabwe using self-testing kits to learn whether they have HIV. “Under an initiative launched in 2016, the kits are sold for $3 to $5 in pharmacies and are free at public health centers as pa...

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Pakistan Strives To Eradicate Polio Amid Barriers.

In a 2,500-word story, ABC News (8/5, Winsor, Jacobson) reports Pakistan is working to eradicate polio, but is beset by poor infrastructure, “hard-to-reach communities, high population movement, cultural barriers and armed conflict” that make it difficul...

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Nearly 10 Percent Of Patients With Candidemia May Also Have Clostridium Difficile Infection Coinfection, Study Indicates.

Healio (8/5, Stulpin) reports that research indicates nearly “10% of patients with candidemia also had a Clostridium difficile infection coinfection.” Healio adds, “These conditions occurring concurrently can lead to prolonged hospital stays and broad-sp...

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FDA Warns Against Long-Term Azithromycin Use In Certain Cancer Patients.

MedPage Today (8/3, Walker) reported that the Food and Drug Administration warned Friday in a safety communication that “azithromycin (Zithromax, Zmax), an antibiotic generally used to treat infections of the lung, sinuses, and skin, should not be given...

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Op-Ed: Vaccine Science Threatened By Anti-Vaccine Activism.

Melinda Wenner Moyer, science and health writer and a contributing editor at Scientific American, wrote for the New York Times (8/4) that Americans who do not support vaccinations “are increasingly getting their way,” and “the cloud of fear surrounding v...

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Researchers Aim To Cut Dengue-Bearing Mosquito Population With Bacteria.

Newsweek (8/3, Interrante) reported researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, employed a strategy to curb dengue-carrying mosquito populations by releasing “even more mosquitoes...infected with bacteria to help fight the disease.” Resea...

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Mylan CEO Calls For US To Buy More Generic HIV Drugs.

Science Magazine (8/3, Cohen) reported Mylan CEO Heather Bresch spoke at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last week, “arguing that the United States is wasting billions of dollars on name brand anti-HIV drugs instead of its cheaper alternat...

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Ecolab Creates Badges To Monitor Hospital Employees’ Hand-Washing.

The AP (8/4) reported Ecolab has developed a device “that assures doctors, nurses and other health care providers are washing their hands to prevent the spread of infections.” According to the AP, healthcare professionals “wear badges that are electronic...

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Emergency Response To Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak “Highly Complex,” Officials Say.

The AP (8/2) reports the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says the emergency response to the new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s “North Kivu province will be ‘highly complex’ given the armed unr...

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Naked Mole Rats That Reproduce May Age More Slowly, Live Longer Than Those That Do Not, Study Suggests.

HealthDay (8/2, Preidt) reports researchers found in a study published in BMC Biology that naked mole rates that “mature into breeders” age more slowly and “are able to live longer than nonbreeders,” according to “study corresponding author Martin Bens.”...

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Obesity May Increase Length Of Time A Person Is Contagious With Flu, Study Suggests.

HealthDay (8/2, Preidt) reports obese adults with the flu “are contagious for much longer than their slim peers,” according to a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Researchers analyzed data “from about 1,800 people in 320 households in Nicaragu...

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New DNA Privacy Guidelines Reportedly Fail To Address “A Major Concern.”

Bloomberg News (8/2, Brown) reports that new guidelines implemented by genetic-testing companies to protect data privacy “failed to address a major concern: what happens to customers’ data that is shared for research with pharmaceutical giants, academics...

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CDC Warns Consumers To Not Wash Or Reuse Condoms.

USA Today (8/2, Diebel) reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “has issued an appeal to folks to not wash or otherwise reuse condoms.” The CDC tweeted, “We say it because people do it. Use a fresh one for each #sex act.” CNN (8/2, Willing...

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Twelve People Across The US Infected With Rat Lungworm, CDC Says.

On its website, NBC News (8/2, Fox) reports the CDC announced Thursday that the “parasite called rat lungworm, which can get into people’s brains, has infected 12 people including toddlers in the continental U.S. in recent years.” The CDC adds that “more...

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New Ebola Outbreak Hits Northeast DRC Killing At Least 20.

The New York Times (8/1, Gladstone) reports there is a new outbreak of Ebola in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo that “has killed at least 20 people” already. The article points out that the DRC’s Health Ministry just declared...

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Plasma Copeptin Test May Be More Accurate For Diagnosing Diabetes Insipidus Than Water-Deprivation Test, Study Suggests.

MedPage Today (8/1, Monaco) reports researchers found that a “test involving direct detection of plasma copeptin using a hypertonic saline infusion” may be a more accurate diagnostic test for diabetes insipidus “than the traditional indirect water-depriv...

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Single-Gene Testing For Driving Mutations Does Not Provide As Much Clinically Relevant Information As Targeted NGS For Patients With NSCLC, Research Indicates.

Cancer Therapy Advisor (8/1, Hernandez) reports that research indicates “single-gene testing for driving mutations does not provide as much clinically relevant information as targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) for patients with non-small cell lung...

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Two Groups Of Researchers Discover New Type of Cell That May Play Role In Cystic Fibrosis.

STAT (8/1, Joseph) reports two groups of researchers found a “new type of cell” that is “similar to a cell found in the gills of fish and skin of frogs,” and that “appears to play an outsize role in cystic fibrosis.” The two groups published separate pap...

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Researchers Develop “Alzheimer’s-In-A-Dish.”

Newsweek (8/1, Georgiou) reports on a study (pdf) published in Nature Neuroscience regarding the creation of “Alzheimer’s-in-a-dish” at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a “culture of human brain stem cells that show signs of neuroinflammation” as we...

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Multidrug-Resistant “Superbugs” Becoming Increasingly Resistant To Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers, Research Indicates.

Reuters (8/1, Kelland) reports that research indicates “multidrug-resistant ‘superbugs’ that can cause dangerous infections in hospitals are becoming increasingly resistant to alcohol-based hand sanitizers and disinfectants designed to hold them at bay.”...

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Self-Testing For HIV In Zimbabwe Helps People Beat Stigma, Seek Treatment Earlier.

Pakistan Strives To Eradicate Polio Amid Barriers.

Nearly 10 Percent Of Patients With Candidemia May Also Have Clostridium Difficile Infection Coinfection, Study Indicates.

FDA Warns Against Long-Term Azithromycin Use In Certain Cancer Patients.

Op-Ed: Vaccine Science Threatened By Anti-Vaccine Activism.

Researchers Aim To Cut Dengue-Bearing Mosquito Population With Bacteria.

Mylan CEO Calls For US To Buy More Generic HIV Drugs.

Ecolab Creates Badges To Monitor Hospital Employees’ Hand-Washing.

Emergency Response To Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak “Highly Complex,” Officials Say.

Naked Mole Rats That Reproduce May Age More Slowly, Live Longer Than Those That Do Not, Study Suggests.

Obesity May Increase Length Of Time A Person Is Contagious With Flu, Study Suggests.

New DNA Privacy Guidelines Reportedly Fail To Address “A Major Concern.”

CDC Warns Consumers To Not Wash Or Reuse Condoms.

Twelve People Across The US Infected With Rat Lungworm, CDC Says.

New Ebola Outbreak Hits Northeast DRC Killing At Least 20.

Plasma Copeptin Test May Be More Accurate For Diagnosing Diabetes Insipidus Than Water-Deprivation Test, Study Suggests.

Single-Gene Testing For Driving Mutations Does Not Provide As Much Clinically Relevant Information As Targeted NGS For Patients With NSCLC, Research Indicates.

Two Groups Of Researchers Discover New Type of Cell That May Play Role In Cystic Fibrosis.

Researchers Develop “Alzheimer’s-In-A-Dish.”

Multidrug-Resistant “Superbugs” Becoming Increasingly Resistant To Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers, Research Indicates.