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Brazilian City Declares State Of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak.

The Los Angeles Times (7/16, Langlois) reports, “With 317 cases of measles already confirmed and another 2,225 awaiting confirmation from laboratories” the capital city of northern Brazilian state Amazonas declared a state of emergency. Four months after...

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Countries Making Progress In Eliminating World’s Leading Infectious Cause Of Blindness.

The New York Times (7/16, McNeil) reports on treatments for trachoma, a bacterial infection that can cause eyes to swell and invert eyelids such that eyelashes scrape the corneas with each blink. The World Health Organization declared in May that Nepal h...

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Drug-Resistant Strain Of Typhoid Spreads In Pakistan.

Science Magazine (7/16, Cohen) reports, “In the past 6 months, more than 2000 people in Pakistan have been infected with extensively drug-resistant” strain of the bacterium that causes typhoid fever. Azithromycin is the only oral antibiotic that works ag...

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CRISPR/Cas9 Can Cause Unexpected Genetic Damage, Research Indicates.

Reuters (7/16, Kelland) reports that researchers “studying the effects of the potentially game-changing gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 have found it can cause unexpected genetic damage which could lead to dangerous changes in some cells.” Reuters adds tha...

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Safety Of Probiotic, Prebiotic, Synbiotic Products Remains Unknown, Study Suggests.

NBC News (7/16, Fox) reports on its website that a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that despite the prevalent belief that “probiotics and prebiotics are safe...there’s very little research to show that’s true.” Researchers examinin...

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Providers, Patients Should Be Aware Of Continued Threat Of Zika For Travelers, Researchers Say.

MedPage Today (7/16, Walker) reports that “providers and patients should be aware of the continued threat of Zika virus for travelers, and weigh the risks and benefits of travel to areas with Zika, given that most cases are asymptomatic, researchers argu...

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Opinion: Price For PrEP Must Come Down.

James Krellenstein and Peter Staley, co-founders of the Prep4All Collaboration, and Aaron Lord, a physician at New York University School of Medicine, write in an op-ed in the New York Times (7/16) about a type of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, calle...

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FDA Approves First Drug To Treat Smallpox.

The New York Times (7/14, A23, McNeil) reported the Food and Drug Administration approved SIGA Technologies’ Tpoxx (tecovirimat), the first drug “to treat smallpox.” The article reported that the drug “could halt a lethal pandemic if the virus were to be...

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Researchers Seek More African-Americans For Genetic Testing.

The Wall Street Journal (7/14, Marcus, Subscription Publication) reported that private genetic testing companies and scientists are pushing to enroll more African-Americans in genetic research databases. The Journal examined the mistrust within the demog...

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Respiratory Viral Testing Important For Improving Outcomes In Adult Patients With Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Due To Viral Pathogens, Research Indicates.

Pulmonology Advisor (7/13) reported, “According to a study published in” the journal CHEST, “respiratory viral testing is important to improve patient outcomes in adults who have severe lower respiratory tract infections due to viral pathogens.” Addition...

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US Sanctions On North Korea Exacerbate Tuberculosis Epidemic.

The AP (7/14, Talmadge) reported that despite “a budding mood of detente on the Korean Peninsula since the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...ongoing sanctions championed by the U.S. and Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’...

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Research Evaluates Relationship Between Hospital Occupancy And Clostridium Difficile Infection Risk.

HealthLeaders Media (7/15, Michek) reported that “when researchers from the University of Michigan (UM) and RAND set out to explore the relationship between hospital occupancy and Clostridium difficile infection risk, they expected to find that high cens...

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Patients With Certain Infections Should Be Screened For Opioid Addiction, Experts Say.

MedPage Today (7/14, George) reported a panel of experts convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services has proposed “screening people with certain infectious diseas...

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McDonald’s Pulls Salads After Outbreak Of Intestinal Parasite Tied To Product.

The New York Times (7/13, Haag) reported McDonald’s has pulled salads from 3,000 of its Midwest locations “after health experts announced that more than 100 people had been infected by an intestinal parasite in recent weeks.” Illinois and Iowa officials...

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Disease-Bearing Ticks More Widespread In US Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests.

NBC News (7/12) reports a new study in the journal PLOS One finding “83 counties, located in 24 states, where ticks carrying disease-causing bacteria had not been documented before” reached that conclusion through the assistance of “an army of ‘citizen s...

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Early Genetic Changes May Help Identify Seemingly Healthy Individuals Who Have Higher Risk Of Developing AML, Study Suggests.

Medscape (7/12, Nelson, Subscription Publication) reports, “Early genetic changes may be key to identifying seemingly healthy individuals who face an increased risk of developing acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to” research published in Nature. T...

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Digital Genetic Code Holds “Promising Applications.”

The Wall Street Journal (7/12, Higgins, Subscription Publication) reports on a new technology that uses digital genetic code to chemically synthesize DNA strands overnight. According to the Journal, the Digital to Biological Converter turns digitized DNA...

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Researchers Discover Unknown Virus In Bats Tied To SARS, MERS.

Newsweek (7/12, Hugo) reports Smithsonian “announced Wednesday that scientists working for the PREDICT program made the troubling discovery”: The research team “found a never-before-known virus in the wrinkle-lipped bat from Myanmar,” which is “in the sa...

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FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Approval Of Single-Dose Tafenoquine For Prevention Of Relapse Of Malaria.

MedPage Today (7/12, Walker) reports the Food and Drug Administration’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted unanimously “to recommend approval of” GlaxoSmithKline’s single-dose tafenoquine “in patients 16 and older for the ‘radical cure’ (preven...

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FDA’s New Guidance On Gene Therapy Could Have Big Impact, Experts Say.

Greg Langlois writes in the Bloomberg BNA (7/12) “Health Care Blog” that earlier this week, “the FDA issued six guidance documents...addressing gene therapy--three on specific diseases and three on manufacturing – nearly a year after approving the first,...

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Brazilian City Declares State Of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak.

Countries Making Progress In Eliminating World’s Leading Infectious Cause Of Blindness.

Drug-Resistant Strain Of Typhoid Spreads In Pakistan.

CRISPR/Cas9 Can Cause Unexpected Genetic Damage, Research Indicates.

Safety Of Probiotic, Prebiotic, Synbiotic Products Remains Unknown, Study Suggests.

Providers, Patients Should Be Aware Of Continued Threat Of Zika For Travelers, Researchers Say.

Opinion: Price For PrEP Must Come Down.

FDA Approves First Drug To Treat Smallpox.

Researchers Seek More African-Americans For Genetic Testing.

Respiratory Viral Testing Important For Improving Outcomes In Adult Patients With Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Due To Viral Pathogens, Research Indicates.

US Sanctions On North Korea Exacerbate Tuberculosis Epidemic.

Research Evaluates Relationship Between Hospital Occupancy And Clostridium Difficile Infection Risk.

Patients With Certain Infections Should Be Screened For Opioid Addiction, Experts Say.

McDonald’s Pulls Salads After Outbreak Of Intestinal Parasite Tied To Product.

Disease-Bearing Ticks More Widespread In US Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests.

Early Genetic Changes May Help Identify Seemingly Healthy Individuals Who Have Higher Risk Of Developing AML, Study Suggests.

Digital Genetic Code Holds “Promising Applications.”

Researchers Discover Unknown Virus In Bats Tied To SARS, MERS.

FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Approval Of Single-Dose Tafenoquine For Prevention Of Relapse Of Malaria.

FDA’s New Guidance On Gene Therapy Could Have Big Impact, Experts Say.