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Shorter Course Of Antibiotics May Be Effective For Treatment Of Complicated UTIs, Study Suggests

Healio (2/1, Stulpin) reports, “Another study has demonstrated that a shorter course of antibiotics may be better, this time for the treatment of complicated UTIs when antibiotics with comparable IV and oral bioavailability are administered.” In this obse...

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WHO Issues Early Draft Of Global COVID-19 Pandemic Agreement

Reuters (2/1, Rigby, Tetrault-Farber) reports, “Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the ‘catastrophic failure’ during the COVID-19 pandemic, according...

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End Of Emergency Declarations Will Impact Programs Offering Free COVID-19 Care

CNN (1/30, Luhby, Mattingly, Diamond) reports President Biden “intends to end the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies on May 11, the White House said Monday,” which “means that many Americans could have to start paying for COVID-19 testing and...

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White-Tailed Deer May Serve As Reservoir For Older Coronavirus Variants, Study Suggests

The New York Times (1/31, Anthes) reports, “The Alpha and Gamma variants of the coronavirus continued to circulate and evolve in white-tailed deer, even after they stopped spreading widely among people, a...study suggests,” but “whether the variants are s...

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Questions Over Mpox Outbreak Remain As US Public Health Emergency Declaration Ends

CNN (1/31, Goodman) reports “the US public health emergency declaration for mpox” ended Tuesday, and while “the virus isn’t completely gone...for more than a month, the average number of daily new cases reported to the” CDC “has hovered in the single digi...

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Timely Detection, Isolation Of Symptomatic Cases May Help Contain Future Mpox Outbreaks On College Campuses, Study Suggests

Healio (1/31, Rhoades) reports, “Future outbreaks of mpox on college campuses could be contained with timely detection and isolation of symptomatic cases, a study found.” For the study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, “researchers used a mat...

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CDC Warns Over-The-Counter Eyedrops May Be Tied To Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

NBC News (1/31, Edwards) reports, “One person has died and at least three others are left with permanent vision loss because of a bacterial infection possibly linked to a brand of over-the-counter eyedrops, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

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FDA Issues Draft Policy To Ease Restrictions On Blood Donations From Gay And Bisexual Men

The New York Times (1/27, Jewett, Anthes) reported the FDA “plans to revise a longstanding policy that excluded most gay and bisexual men from blood donation, instead adopting an approach that will screen donors depending on their recent sexual activity,...

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Discordant Outcomes At Test-Of-Cure Visit Tied To Increased Risk For Late Clinical Failure In Patients With Complicated UTIs, Study Finds

Healio (1/28, Stulpin) reported an analysis of 13 “phase 3 trials of patients with complicated UTIs found that having discordant outcomes at a test-of-cure visit – clinical success but microbiological failure – was associated with an increased risk for la...

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Study Identifies Independent Predictors For Hospital-Acquired CDI Among Children With Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea

Infectious Disease Advisor (1/27, Cimino) reported, “Abdominal pain, prolonged hospitalization and antibiotic use prior to diarrhea onset, and receipt of meropenem and clindamycin were found to be independent predictors for hospital-acquired Clostridioide...

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Omicron Subvariant XBB.1.5 Accounts For 61.3% Of Coronavirus Cases In US, CDC Finds

Reuters (1/27, Mandowara, Mahobe) reported “the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has likely become the dominant variant in the United States, accounting for 61.3% of COVID cases in the week ended Jan. 28,” according to CDC data released Friday. XBB.1.5 “account...

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Expert Panel Endorses Stricter Oversight Of Pathogen Research

The New York Times (1/27, Mueller, Zimmer) reported that on Friday, an expert panel “endorsed a sweeping set of proposed changes to the federal government’s program for regulating experiments that involve tinkering with risky viruses and other pathogens.”...

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FDA Advisers Recommend Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines Become Standard Shot

The New York Times (1/26, Mueller, LaFraniere) reports, “An expert committee advising the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Thursday that regulators phase out the original versions of the Covid-19 vaccines, allowing Americans getting their first...

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Roche Launches New PCR Test To Detect XBB.1.5 Omicron Subvariant

Reuters (1/26, Revill) reports, “Roche has launched a new PCR test to detect a fast-spreading sub-variant of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday.” This “new test specifically targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron variant and wil...

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CDC, FDA Still Investigating Possible Stroke Risk Tied To Pfizer/BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Shot In Older Adults

Reuters (1/26, Erman) reports new data from a CDC database show “a possible stroke risk link for older adults who received an updated Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot, but the signal is weaker than what the agency had flagged earlier in January, heal...

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PEPFAR Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

Roll Call (1/26, Raman) reports, “Saturday marks a major milestone in the global fight to eliminate the AIDS epidemic, as the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief celebrates its 20th anniversary as the largest commitment by a country to combat...

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FDA Withdraws Emergency Use Authorization For AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab

Reuters (1/26, Satija, Mandowara) reports the FDA “has withdrawn emergency-use authorization for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail” tixagevimab/cilgavimab (Evusheld) “as the treatment is not expected to neutralize the currently dominant XBB.1.5 sub...

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FDA To Ease Restrictions On Blood Donations From Gay, Bisexual Men In Monogamous Relationships

The Washington Post (1/26, A1, McGinley, Amenabar, Nirappil) reports, “Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships will no longer be forced to abstain from sex to donate blood under federal guidelines to be proposed in coming days, ending a vestige o...

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Use of a Vanadate Oxidation Conjugated Bilirubin Assay to Reduce Test Cancellations Resulting from Hemolyzed Specimens in Pediatric Patients

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Association between Methylene-Tetrahydrofolate Reductase C677T Polymorphism and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection in Morocco

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Shorter Course Of Antibiotics May Be Effective For Treatment Of Complicated UTIs, Study Suggests

WHO Issues Early Draft Of Global COVID-19 Pandemic Agreement

End Of Emergency Declarations Will Impact Programs Offering Free COVID-19 Care

White-Tailed Deer May Serve As Reservoir For Older Coronavirus Variants, Study Suggests

Questions Over Mpox Outbreak Remain As US Public Health Emergency Declaration Ends

Timely Detection, Isolation Of Symptomatic Cases May Help Contain Future Mpox Outbreaks On College Campuses, Study Suggests

CDC Warns Over-The-Counter Eyedrops May Be Tied To Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

FDA Issues Draft Policy To Ease Restrictions On Blood Donations From Gay And Bisexual Men

Discordant Outcomes At Test-Of-Cure Visit Tied To Increased Risk For Late Clinical Failure In Patients With Complicated UTIs, Study Finds

Study Identifies Independent Predictors For Hospital-Acquired CDI Among Children With Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea

Omicron Subvariant XBB.1.5 Accounts For 61.3% Of Coronavirus Cases In US, CDC Finds

Expert Panel Endorses Stricter Oversight Of Pathogen Research

FDA Advisers Recommend Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines Become Standard Shot

Roche Launches New PCR Test To Detect XBB.1.5 Omicron Subvariant

CDC, FDA Still Investigating Possible Stroke Risk Tied To Pfizer/BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Shot In Older Adults

PEPFAR Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

FDA Withdraws Emergency Use Authorization For AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab

FDA To Ease Restrictions On Blood Donations From Gay, Bisexual Men In Monogamous Relationships

Use of a Vanadate Oxidation Conjugated Bilirubin Assay to Reduce Test Cancellations Resulting from Hemolyzed Specimens in Pediatric Patients

Association between Methylene-Tetrahydrofolate Reductase C677T Polymorphism and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection in Morocco