The results of a large observational study in children show no difference in treatment failure rates between the two most commonly prescribed antibiotics for pediatric acute sinusitis, researchers reported today in JAMA. Overall, treatment failure for…
Facebook's removal of some COVID-19 vaccine misinformation didn't drive down user engagement with the content—likely because the social media platform's architecture allowed users to view and interact with it and let groups boost each other's…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today noted that COVID-19 hospitalizations are up 8.7% and deaths up 4.5% in the most recent reporting week, though numbers are still quite low. Roughly 18,900 Americans were hospitalized…
Nipah Virus, often abbreviated as NiV, is a zoonotic virus that can cause severe illness in humans. It was first identified in Malaysia in 1999 during an outbreak among pig farmers and subsequently in Singapore.…
Dharamsala : A 32-year-old tourist from Punjab’s Jalandhar drowned here while bathing in a canal near the Bhagsu Nag waterfall, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when Pawan Kumar, while bathing…
Race, COVID-19 infections, and chronic disease contributed to higher COVID-related hospitalization rates for Black patients compared to white patients, according to new research from scientists at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health, New Orleans, School of Public Health…
With COVID activity slowly increasing amid variant shifts, vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for people ages 6 months and older. Though some on the…
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…
