Research will help advance TB vaccine development. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $30 million in first-year funding to establish new centers for immunology research to accelerate progress in tuberculosis (TB) vaccine development. New and improved TB vaccines are badly needed. Over the past 200 [...]
The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom are alerting their citizens to the possibility that there may be unreported Ebola cases in Tanzania. The information — posted on the websites of the U.S. State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and its counterpart, Public Health England — relates to concerning [...]
About 48 million people in the U.S. (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is a significant public health burden that is largely preventable. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is transforming the [...]
The number of Ebola cases continues to slowly rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, with four more cases reported today, as global health officials released their latest overview of needs to prevent more spread to the DRC’s neighbors through the end of the year. In other developments, the World Health Organization [...]
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) yesterday recommended that only pregnant women should be screened for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), based on findings of a moderate net benefit in reducing perinatal complications. The findings appear in an evidence report, published yesterday in JAMA, that found that screening and treatment for ASB—the presence of bacteria in the urine [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bavarian Nordic’s new monkeypox and smallpox vaccine, Jynneos, for use in adults over the age of 18 who are at risk for either virus, the company said yesterday in a news release. In addition to being the only US-approved vaccine for preventing monkeypox, Jynneos is also the [...]
Bloodstream infections caused by the fungus Candida are among the most common and deadly infections in hospitals, with 25,000 such cases seen annually in the U.S. – mostly in people originally hospitalized for other reasons. About 40% to 45% of people with Candida in their blood die of the infection. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in [...]
Highlights • The gut microbiome was compared in high- and low-functioning (HF, LF) older adults. • Fecal transfer from HF and LF older adults into germ-free mice was performed. • Bacteria were identified that differed between HF and LF older adult humans. • Similar bacterial differences were identified for HF-and LF-colonized [...]
NAIROBI — Over the weekend, the World Health Organization issued a statement accusing the Tanzanian government of withholding clinical information on suspected Ebola cases. The statement outlines a series of unofficial reports of suspected Ebola cases in the country and the government’s repeated refusal to provide information that WHO requested to better understand the situation. Credit: CDC Read more… The [...]
Some of the genes that predict the risk of high cholesterol don’t apply to people from Uganda the same as they do in European populations, finds a new UCL-led study. The new Nature Communications study adds to evidence that genetic research involved in drug development and risk prediction testing might not apply equally to non-European populations. [...]
