Emerging Diseases News

Hospitalizations that involved fungal infections increased by more than 8% in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years, researchers found.

HOUSTON — In this video, Cheryl A. Nickerson, PhD, professor of life sciences at the Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics at Arizona State University, explains the benefits of microbiological research in space.

HOUSTON — Data from a cloud-based surveillance system showed a substantial increase in cases of Candida auris in the United States during a recent 6-month period, researchers reported at ASM Microbe.

President Joe Biden on Friday officially announced that former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, will be the next director of the CDC.

An FDA advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend changing the composition of the country’s COVID-19 vaccines to be monovalent XBB-lineage vaccines, removing the wild strain of SARS-CoV-2 from the shots.

Houston is making space for the largest microbial sciences conference in the world.

PHILADELPHIA — Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is a common cardiac complication in COVID-19 survivors and research is ongoing as to optimal treatments, a speaker said during the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, discusses the excess risk for heart attack in patients with COVID-19.

Adults with overweight or obesity who received metformin shortly after a COVID-19 diagnosis had a lower risk for developing long COVID than those receiving placebo, according to study data.

Reusing single-use surgical masks for up to a week had no major impact on skin or upper respiratory tract microbiomes, according to data published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.