The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in the United States.
The patient, a health care worker who...
It was almost as if someone decided April would be hepatitis C month.
In case you hadn’t notice, April saw publication of six separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on what were...
Vaccines will prevent an estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 732,000 premature deaths during the lifetimes of children born during the two decades after the Vaccines for...
A new systematic review of clinical studies of the oral anti-influenza drug oseltamivir that included a substantial amount of clinical data that were not part of previously published assessments...
LAS VEGAS – Check fluoride levels in patients on long-term voriconazole who present with new-onset bone pain, researchers at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., advised after <link...
Onein twenty-five hospitalized patients on any given day has an infection acquired from health care, and as many as one in nine of those will die.
At a press briefing, Dr. Michael Bell discussed...
Information on the use of entecavir in children down to age 2 years has been added to the prescribing information for the chronic hepatitis B drug, the Food and Drug Administration has announced....
An estimated 4% of inpatients at U.S. acute care hospitals have at least one health care–associated infection on any given day, according to a report published online March 26 in the New England...
Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking an anti–tumor necrosis factor agent who had a prior hospitalization because of an infection significantly reduced their risk of a subsequent infection-related...
Despite the overall decline in tuberculosis, there continues to be a large disparity in incidence between U.S.-born and foreign-born U.S. residents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
