NEW DELHI: A Covid-19 variant that may be more infectious and could evade vaccine immunity has caused alarm among scientists tracking the adaptability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This latest emerging variant, JN.1, was identified in Luxembourg on August 25, 2023, followed by England, Iceland, France, and the US. Scientists were specially astonished by the sheer […]
New Jersey’s best hospitals have stumbled in the most recent patient safety scores, dropping in the past six months, at a time of staffing shortages, from first in the nation for the percentage of facilities with an “A” grade to 13th, according to a report released Monday. While hospitals overall cut down on the number […]
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday (Nov. 7) announced the country’s first death from Mpox. In a press release, the CDC said the case was a man from northern Taiwan in his 30s who had not been vaccinated against the disease. In August, he developed skin ulcers associated with […]
Stopping the spread of infectious diseases. That’s what Boston Logan International Airport, and many others across the country, are now taking steps to do. It’s all in the hopes of preventing a similar scenario to how the coronavirus first spread in the pandemic. This new effort to ramp up prevention comes at a time when […]
Danish officials have solved an E. coli outbreak linked to meat that sickened six people. Since late March, half a dozen E. coli O157:H7 patients fell sick, and one developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). HUS is a severe complication associated with E. coli infections that causes kidney failure. The first patient was identified in March, […]
Nov. 6 (UPI) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its infectious disease surveillance program to detect more than 30 bacteria, antimicrobial resistance targets and viruses including influenza A and B, and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, and SARS-CoV-2. The agency will launch the pilot program in four of America’s […]
The Global Eye Infections Treatment Industry is experiencing a remarkable upswing as it is poised to reach a staggering revenue of US$ 7.3 billion in 2022, with further growth anticipated in the coming years. According to comprehensive market research, the industry is expected to maintain a steady compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8% from […]
Abstract Accurate characterization of respiratory bacterial co-infection is critical for guiding empirical antibiotic treatment for hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We retrospectively assessed the clinical and analytical predictors of respiratory bacterial co-infection and described the empirical use of antibiotics in COVID-19 hospitalised patients. Respiratory bacterial co-infection was documented in 6.9% (80/1157) of the […]
Tuberculosis, or TB, was the world’s second deadliest infectious disease in 2022, following only after Covid-19. According to data from the World Health Organization, an estimated 1.13 million HIV-negative people died from TB last year. To put this into perspective, the officially reported death toll for Covid was 1.24 million in 2022, while total deaths […]
BOSTON, Nov. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Novotech, the leading Asia Pacific centred biotech CRO with global execution capabilities, today published the latest 2023 global clinical trial environment whitepaper focused on infectious diseases. The Novotech research analyst team offers these expert reports monthly at no cost. This helps to contribute to the advancement of knowledge […]