Enlarge / Competitors take part in “Tough Mudder” at the Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California, United States on April 2, 2023. Getty | Tayfun CoÅkun Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event—a very muddy obstacle course race—held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like […]
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 […]
NOW. THE FIRST TWO HUMAN CASES OF WEST NILE VIRUS THIS SEASON ARE NOW CONFIRMED IN MASSACHUSETTS. HEALTH OFFICIALS NOW WARNING RESIDENTS ABOUT A POTENTIAL INCREASE IN INFECTIONS. SO HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IS DR. DANIEL KURITZKES, CHIEF OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AT THE BRIGHAM. DR. SAUGUS, GREAT TO HAVE YOU AS ALWAYS. GREAT TO BE […]
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 […]
Anthony Fauci has said that there is “not going to be the tsunami of cases that we’ve seen” during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the emergence of two new variants of the virus. Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday, the former chief medical advisor to the president, who was regularly the face […]
Topline Neurosurgeons in Australia this week reported pulling a live, three-inch worm from a woman’s brain, a shocking, world-first discovery that adds another threat to the catalog of dangerous worms and parasites that already target billions of people around the world. Key Facts Experts said the woman likely became an “accidental host” for the parasitic […]