Connie Gittens Webber shares her role as an HHS infection control practitioner for National Infection Prevention and Control Week from Oct. 16 to 20, in recognition of the important role infection prevention and control teams play in keeping health-care settings safe. Connie Gittens Webber had a gift for sciences back in her school days. But […]
Senior patient of nursing home moving with walking frame and nurse support (Adobe Stock 429992527 by InsideCreativeHouse) Nursing home residents face a substantial risk of infection and hospitalization, primarily due to the presence of multidrug-resistant organisms. Nevertheless, a recent study offers a ray of hope in mitigating this pressing concern. The research reveals that nursing […]
All the cystic fibrosis (CF) patients participating in the Phase 2 portion of a clinical trial have been dosed with BX004, an inhaled virus-based therapy for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterial infections of the lungs. Data from the first part of the Phase 1b/2a study (NCT05010577) showed the experimental therapy reduced the number of bacteria in […]
Content Previous research has implicated fungi in chronic neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, but there is limited understanding of how these common microbes could be involved in the development of these conditions. Working with animal models, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions discovered how the fungus Candida albicans enters the brain, activates […]
A campaign to improve awareness and understanding of urinary tract infections (UTIs) has been launched by the NHS. The campaign, being run by NHS England and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), is designed to remind people, especially those aged over 65, of the steps they can take to reduce their risk of getting a harmful […]
In the U.S., sexually transmitted infections are at an all-time high. If you know you’re living with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and are hoping to have a baby, you may be nervous about whether (and how) it will affect your pregnancy. Or maybe you’re already pregnant, and you haven’t yet been tested for STIs. […]
In 2018, several Philadelphia physicians, worried about rising rates of sexually transmitted infections in the city and around the country, decided to try a new method to fight their spread: an antibiotic taken after sex that functioned like a “morning-after pill,” preventing those infections from taking hold in patients. They had seen promising early research […]
Representative image of a mosquito net. Photo: Bezons/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 Something unusual seems to be happening with dengue, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne viral disease found across swathes of tropical Africa, Asia and the Americas. As with most infectious diseases, the number of cases tends to rise and fall over the years as epidemics […]
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Yi-Syuan Sun Yi-Syuan Sun, MD, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan and and Faculty of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. De-Feng Huang De-Feng Huang, MD, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan. Wei-Sheng […]