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STAT+: Gilead defeats federal government in closely watched battle over patents for HIV prevention pills
A U.S. court jury handed a major win to Gilead Sciences on Tuesday in a…
Category: infectious disease
Listen: Lilly’s Alzheimer’s success, a milestone FDA approval, & Moderna’s shrinking business
What’s the future of Alzheimer’s disease treatment? How do you pivot from a pandemic? And…
Opinion: How small vaccine stockpiles can stop outbreaks of infectious disease from becoming big
Marburg could soon become the second virus in the past year to have experimental vaccine…
Listen: Sarepta’s pivotal moment, biotech’s big week, & the future of Covid boosters
How can you be sure a gene therapy is working? What does $11 billion get…
STAT+: STAT-Harris Poll: Most Americans are worried about RSV
A majority of Americans are concerned about the health threat posed by the respiratory syncytial…
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Opinion: The window is closing to stop deadly drug-resistant fungi like Candida auris
Just one week after the season finale of the HBO show “The Last of Us,”…
Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana
DAKAR, Senegal — Ghana on Thursday became the first country to approve a new malaria…
Often overlooked, a common infection during pregnancy kickstarts a conversation about newborn screening
On a spring day in the late 1980s, pediatrician Mark Schleiss was confronted with a…
Focus Covid booster campaigns on high-risk people, WHO’s vaccine experts recommend
A panel of experts that advises the World Health Organization on vaccine use suggested Tuesday…
Opinion: Biden’s budget boosts funds for future pandemics, but cuts them for current ones
The Biden administration has rightly talked a lot about pandemic preparedness. And to its credit,…
Directly observed therapy for TB treatment, via video, gets CDC nod
Directly observed therapy — where a health professional watches someone take a medication — has been…
Tuberculosis cases nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, data show
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, new diagnoses of tuberculosis dropped like a stone in the…
Marburg fever outbreak in Equatorial Guinea widens, WHO reports
The ongoing Marburg fever outbreak in Equatorial Guinea is significantly larger than has previously been…
Tanzania reports a Marburg outbreak, Africa’s second this year
Africa is grappling with not one, but two outbreaks of Marburg fever, a disease that…
Steroid drug reduces death rate in severe pneumonia, study shows
Giving doses of the steroid hydrocortisone to patients with severe pneumonia cut the risk of…
Arizona plans to dramatically increase hepatitis C testing and treatment in prisons
WASHINGTON — The Arizona Department of Corrections is promising a federal judge that it will…
Polio cases derived from new oral vaccine reported for first time
Experts have long understood that a new polio vaccine developed to try to minimize the…
‘That is my dream’: Scientist who uncovered likely leading cause of MS wants to tackle ALS next
Alberto Ascherio began his career as a young doctor treating tropical diseases in South American…
FDA issues rare comment on approval of Covid and flu home test from company that went bankrupt
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home…
Rare polio case highlights how hard it will be to keep polio gone once it’s eradicated
An incident that took place at a Dutch polio vaccine production facility late last year…
Opinion: Invasive strep A: bad in affluent countries, far worse in low-income nations
The deaths of nearly 30 children under the age of 15 years from invasive strep…
Federal panel approves plans to safeguard lab-made virus research
A panel of federal advisers voted unanimously Friday to advance a set of proposals to…
Opinion: The WHO’s new pandemic treaty is good for the world — and the U.S.
In December, delegates from more than 180 countries met in Switzerland to discuss the International…
STAT+: Moderna says RSV vaccine worked, setting stage for competition with GSK and Pfizer
Moderna’s vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, reduced the rate of lower respiratory…
Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable…
XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?
It’s like clockwork now. Every few months, we’re warned that the Omicron variant of the…
With attention to mpox fading, health officials fear infections will go undetected and unreported
In the transmission heyday of the international mpox outbreak early last summer, it appeared that…
South Dakota plans major ramp up of hepatitis C treatment in prison
WASHINGTON — The head of South Dakota prisons is pledging to dramatically overhaul how the…
Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons…
3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023
For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, people working in the infectious diseases…
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming
People who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a…
Flu activity in the U.S. continues to decline after early surge
Flu activity across the United States continues to decline, though it remains at high levels…
Opinion: Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19
Sepsis, a deadly overreaction of the immune system to infection, has befuddled clinicians and researchers…
Infectious disease board recommends hospitals stop screening asymptomatic patients for Covid-19
An influential board of infectious disease physicians recommended Wednesday that hospitals and other health care…
CVS, Walgreens limiting purchases of children’s drugs amid cold and flu season shortages
Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to…
Opinion: Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids
Americans have been warned — again — about lax attention to routine vaccinations. This time…
Early flu season in U.S. may be peaking early, too
This year’s abnormally early flu season is showing signs it may be peaking in parts…
Getting hepatitis C treatment opens new doors for the incarcerated
WARREN, Maine — For the prisoners who receive it, hepatitis C treatment is more than…
For families, grieving an incarcerated person’s death adds complexity to an already painful process
PLEASANTON, Texas — The only thing worse than caring for a sick loved one in…
Watch: With little more than a typewriter, an Idaho man overturns the entire state’s policy on hepatitis C treatment in prison
BOISE, Idaho — When he took on the state department of corrections, Phil Turney didn’t…
Despite federal disclosure rules, state prisons hide information on hepatitis C-related deaths
It’s virtually impossible to get information from states and correctional facilities about why people die…
Prisons say they can’t afford to cure everyone with hepatitis C. But some are figuring out a way
State prison systems say they can’t afford to cure everyone with hepatitis C. The drug,…
Legal and medical experts say denying hepatitis C care is cruel and unusual punishment, but the courts are still catching up
The final years of Carl Hoffer’s life were, in his words, “living hell.” His legs…
These 8 states are doing the worst job of treating hepatitis C in prisons
In 2022, whether an incarcerated person gets cured of hepatitis C is largely determined by…
Hundreds of incarcerated people are dying of hep C — even though we have a simple cure
FALLS CITY, Neb. — John Ritchie shouldn’t have died. He knew he had hepatitis C….
Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study
This Wednesday will mark two years since nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in…
Walensky says CDC needs more authority from Congress to collect public health data
WASHINGTON — The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention needs Congress to help it collect…
Jynneos mpox vaccine provided strong protection against infection, new CDC data show
People who received one or two doses of mpox vaccine contracted the infection at substantially…
Limits of ‘Fauci effect’: infectious disease applicants plummet, and hospitals are scrambling
Tulane University touted “the chance to train in a unique & wonderful city.” The University…
Opinion: Pediatricians and parents on the brink: This is their March 2020
In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the United States, the nation’s pediatric…