Emerging Diseases News

Clinical outcomes after COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis were similar vs. myocarditis from COVID-19 infection, and events were fewer vs. conventional myocarditis, researcher reported.

Even before I came to the United States to start my internal medicine residency, I had discovered that my calling was a career in infectious diseases.

On June 11, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued the result of their lengthy deliberations to develop a consensus definition for long COVID.

The federal government will once again be distributing free at-home COVID-19 tests to households across the country starting next month, health officials announced Friday.

The FDA on Thursday announced that it has greenlit the updated COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which the companies said should be available within days.

In new guidance, the Infectious Diseases Society of America suggested that immunocompromised patients take the monoclonal antibody pemivibart as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent severe COVID-19.

A multicenter study identified factors associated with mortality among patients with Candida auris bloodstream infection.

Compared with 2019, in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalizations for acute MI were down but in-hospital mortality in that population rose in the U.S., researchers reported in the Korean Circulation Journal.

Healio’s infectious diseases and pediatrics news teams received an APEX award for a 2023 report on the CDC and FDA’s performances during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was part of a larger series called “Life during COVID.”

Among patients with systemic autoimmune disease in a large, real-world cohort, 29.8% reported long COVID, with frequent impacts to quality of life, following infection, according to data published in The Journal of Rheumatology.