Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of the Adverse Event Monitoring System ( AEMS ), a new platform for assessing adverse event reports made to the FDA for drugs, ...

The first known meta-analysis of how SARS-CoV-2 variant type and time since infection influence long-COVID symptoms ties Omicron to brain fog and paresthesia (numbness and tingling), while earlier ...

The single-dose dengue vaccine developed by Brazil’s Butantan Institute is 80.5% effective against hospitalization for the mosquito-borne disease for at least five years, per a phase 3 clinical trial ...

Today, the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) unanimously endorsed the WHO’s recommendation for viral strains to include in flu shots starting this fall. The final ...

The state had eight detections of highly pathogenic avian flu in the past week in three counties, Elkhart, Lagrange, and Jay. Jay County had the largest outbreak, involving 20,600 birds on a ...

The guidance aims to help accelerate the development of new antibiotics for severe, drug-resistant gram-negative and gram-positive infections and community-acquired and healthcare-associated bacterial ...

Both Arizona and South Carolina, two states that recorded hundreds of measles cases in recent months, are reporting significant slowdowns in new cases reported this week. Utah, however, has now ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that the war in Iran is worsening public health conditions across the Middle East region. After 10 days of bombings and conflict in Iran, national health ...

Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies the current flu season as “moderate,” at least 90 children have already died of influenza. Among the children who died and were ...

A University of Calgary–led research team finds that only 7% of children infected with Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) during a 395-case ...

Unless agriculture practices change, the use of antibiotics in livestock worldwide is projected to increase 19% in 5 years and almost 30% by 2040—to more than 140,000 tons—according to new estimates ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic ...