Respiratory Infections News

The Infectious Diseases Society of America on Friday announced the creation of an award honoring National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD.

Long COVID can cause multisystem health issues that can last anywhere from months to years. We asked Farha S. Ikramuddin, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the department of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, what the most significant consequence of long COVID will be moving forward.

I grew up in a household surrounded by medicine and the medical needs of my sister. It was an environment I had become accustomed to and later became the focal point of my studies.

WASHINGTON — Carlos del Rio, MD, an Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member and the new president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, discussed his agenda with Healio.

WASHINGTON — Three late-breaking studies offered a promising glimpse of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in the pipeline for older adults — including the RSVPreF3 OA vaccine, which showed an overall vaccine efficacy of about 83%.

The FDA authorized a booster shot of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, giving the United States an option for people who cannot or will not receive a messenger RNA vaccine.

The COVID-19 pandemic and H1N1 epidemic were associated with adverse mental health events in adolescents and youth from low- and middle-income countries, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

COVID-19 rebound in people who have recovered from the disease is not due to an impaired immune response, according to a small study of patients treated with and without Paxlovid.

Experts say that people with HIV should be included in clinical trials for new tuberculosis vaccine candidates in the pipeline, according to newly written recommendations published in The Lancet HIV.

Early data from trials assessing the new Pfizer and BioNTech omicron-adapted booster vaccine show that the vaccine substantially increased protective antibodies against the BA.5 subvariant in adults.