Hospital Medicine News

New Hampshire on Tuesday announced that a person in the state who tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis virus has died after being hospitalized with severe central nervous system 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 Infectious Diseases Society of America has updated its guidance on the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative infections and said it aims to update the guidelines annually to keep up with evolving resistance and new research.

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.

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

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Women are less likely to be prescribed pain relief medications compared with men when treated in EDs, findings from a retrospective analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested.

Diagnostic stewardship helped reduce the number of inappropriate tests ordered for Clostridioides difficile by 20 percentage points in a Florida health care system, according to a study.

Although daptomycin remains more expensive than vancomycin, it is a “suitable alternative” to daptomycin for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy because it results in less health care utilization, researchers reported.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America released updated guidelines on complicated intra-abdominal infections for the first time since 2010.