The American Society of Microbiology (AMS) today released consensus recommendations on gain-of-function research into infectious agents with pandemic potential. The recommendations include internationally accepted definitions of terminology, greater transparency with the public, and stronger biorisk-management systems and…
A quarter of COVID-19 survivors had impaired lung function 1 year after infection, and older patients, those with more than three chronic conditions, and those with severe cases improved slower than other patients over time,…
It's no secret that antibiotics are one of the foundations of modern medicine. Since penicillin was first introduced in the early 1940s, antibiotics have turned once-deadly infections into easily treatable conditions, made surgery and childbirth…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it has approved the emergency use of updated COVID-19 vaccines that more closely target circulating strains, setting the stage for tomorrow's discussion on recommendations by the Centers for Disease…
Seema Sachdeva The small city of North Bay in northeastern Ontario was in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Nearly 300 international students, who had taken admission in various courses in the September/fall…
The UK health authorities began rolling out their winter vaccine schedule for the most medically vulnerable on Monday, brought forward from a planned early October rollout amid concerns around the new COVID variant BA.2.86. The…
In a technical briefing on SARS-CoV-2 variants today, the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) revealed that, of 34 confirmed involving the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant, 28 were from a single outbreak at a nursing home, an early…
COVID-19 and influenza vaccines can be safety administered together, with no significant drop in antibody response, according to a study led by Sheba Medical Center researchers in Israel. The research, published today in JAMA Network Open, involved healthcare…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday sent a health alert to clinicians, warning that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity is rising in parts of the Southeast, which typically predicts the spread of…
A pair of new studies documents initial drops—and, in some cases, rebounds—in cancer diagnoses in Canada and the United States in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Diagnosis rates varied by cancer type In…
