Respiratory Infections News

Placebos administered without deception, or nondeceptive placebos, may offer an alternative and effective way to help people manage prolonged stress, according to a study published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.

Patients who received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated a 1.16-fold higher long-term risk for systemic lupus erythematosus, while a booster was linked to higher risk for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, according to data.

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.

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.

The CDC issued an advisory on Aug. 13 alerting health care providers and public health officials about the elevated activity of parvovirus B19 in the United States.

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.

More than half of antibiotic prescriptions for acute sinusitis follow prescribing guidelines, but nearly one-third do not, and most prescriptions are given for too long a duration, according to a study.

People with virally suppressed HIV who are hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia do not have a higher mortality risk than people without HIV, according to a study.

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.”