Even as antiretroviral therapies began making inroads into the AIDS epidemic, the virulence of HIV-1 increased and the time from seroconversion to a significant CD4-cell drop was cut in half,...
The era of interferon and ribavirin in the treatment of hepatitis C viral infections appears to be drawing to a close, and few clinicians will mourn the passing of the effective but highly toxic...
A scathing new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found ample room for improvement in inpatient antibiotic prescribing.
Findings include continued overuse of antibiotics in...
Federal officials are proposing new targets for reducing health care–associated infections, including a 75% reduction in invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections by...
SILVER SPRING, MD. – The trivalent and quadrivalent influenza vaccines for the 2014-2015 influenza season in the United States should retain the same strains that are included in the current season’s...
The incidence of all meningococcal serotypes is in decline, except for the spike in serogroup B on college campuses.
"Although we do not expect an increase in MenB outbreaks on college...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to retain its current recommendations and patient populations for annual influenza vaccination Feb....
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) released guidelines on vaccination recommendations for patients with immunocompromised conditions. While not the majority of patients for most...
So far, the 2013-2014 influenza season has been hardest on young and middle-age adults, with 61% of flu hospitalizations occurring in the 18- to 64-year-old age group, the Centers for Disease Control...
NEW ORLEANS – There were no cases of HIV transmission to infants born of a second pregnancy to mothers who maintained viral suppression between their two pregnancies, a study showed.
In a...
