Respiratory Infections News

CDC advisors on Thursday unanimously supported the addition of Pfizer’s 20-valent pneumococcal vaccine as an option for children in the United States.

CDC vaccine advisors said Wednesday that older adults in the United States should talk to their physicians about getting vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus.

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For survivors of serious COVID-19, a physical activity program was a safe, effective intervention for improving health-related quality of life, persistent symptoms and more, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial.

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.

The FDA recently approved two separate vaccines to prevent respiratory syncytial virus in older adults. Soon, additional RSV prevention tools may be available for pediatric patients, too.

New video game modifications can help others to understand what it is like to live with long COVID.

BPaL shortens treatment times significantly and shows few adverse effects in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis , according to data published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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.