Monthly Archives: September 2023

Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell. Credit: NIAID New research from Boston Medical Center found that providing pragmatic support, specifically rapid access to antiretroviral therapy, pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder, and strengths-based case management, improved treatment outcomes for people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia. Published in The Lancet HIV, researchers […]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen is urging people to get the new COVID-19 vaccine booster when it becomes available and says it is expected to be effective against the predominant strains circulating now. Cohen made the remarks in a briefing with reporters on Thursday, the week after the CDC flagged a […]

FRIDAY, Sept. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Naturally occurring and anthropogenic water-quality constituents may heighten the risk for nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease in people with cystic fibrosis, according to a study published in the October issue of Environmental Epidemiology. Ettie M. Lipner, from the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues […]

Summer might be winding down, but mosquitoes haven’t gotten the memo. They’re still out there biting, and in some cases spreading diseases, including one that hasn’t spread in the U.S. in 20 years. Consumer Reports has more on the return of malaria and how you can protect yourself. Malaria was virtually wiped out in the […]

image: Coordinator of the CLARITY study, Marianne Boes PhD view more  Credit: UMC Utrecht UMC Utrecht will lead an international consortium that will try to answer a key question that’s in the mind of many pediatricians, infectiologists, pulmonologists and other health professionals: “Why are children that had an RSV infection in early childhood at increased risk […]

San Diego resident Traci Parker spent 8 days in Sharp Memorial Hospital with a severe infection following a dentist visit for a crown placement  — and she says her dentist didn’t listen to her when she said something had gone wrong. After getting a crown — a tooth-shaped cap that goes over a damaged tooth […]