Emerging Diseases News

The gender gap in life expectancy in the United States has grown in recent years, with women living nearly 6 years longer than men on average, according to the results of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to a short decrease in obstetric interventions and an increase in perinatal mortality, according to a retrospective study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

BOSTON — Researchers reported similar patient and allograft survival 1 year after liver transplantation between COVID-19 positive and negative donors, showing potential for expanding organ access, according to data at The Liver Meeting.

The FDA approved the world’s first vaccine against chikungunya virus.

Many health care personnel working in acute-care hospitals and nursing homes are not up to date on recommended COVID-19 or influenza vaccinations, new study findings suggest.

The COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with changes in parental vaccine hesitancy overall, but there were other effects, including a polarization of vaccine attitudes and changes in trust about vaccine information, a study found.

Approximately 20% of patients with solid organ transplants, rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases or lymphoid cancers fail to mount a response to three or more COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

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In a cohort of older adults, the COVID-19 pandemic was a mitigating factor in self-perceived cognitive decline, the presence of which indicated a higher risk factor for worsening cognitive function in the year following the pandemic.

Antibiotic use among critically ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 declined between 2020 and 2022, researchers found.