Epidemic

PHILADELPHIA — The epidemic of age-related macular degeneration is expected to increase, according to a speaker here.

Patients with prediabetes who participated in shared medical appointments lost more weight and experienced greater reductions in HbA1C and BP levels than their counterparts who received usual care, a retrospective cohort study showed.

A new review on systematic studies and analyses highlighted the urgent need for the development of CVD prevention strategies and research to impede CVD epidemics in Asia.

June 5 marks 40 years since MMWR published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia among young men in Los Angeles — the first report of what would come to be called AIDS.

Experts said during a media briefing Thursday that the impact of COVID-19 on the tuberculosis epidemic is even worse than they predicted a year ago.

A genetic analysis has linked a new Ebola outbreak in Guinea to the West African Ebola epidemic that ended in 2016.

Men in 20 sub-Saharan African countries were half as likely to receive an HIV test as women but still accounted for 37% of HIV-positive test results, according to a recent study.

Last year, researchers estimated that 60% of the global population will be at risk for dengue by 2080, citing climate change as a potential factor in the disease’s spread. We asked Duane J. Gubler, ScD, FAAAS, FIDSA, FASTMH, chair of the Global Dengue & Aedes-Transmitted Diseases Consortium and emeritus professor of emerging infectious diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, if climate change impacts the spread and transmission of dengue.

Fewer medical trainees are entering the field of HIV, leaving a shortage in the workforce that is likely to get worse, experts said. The trend coincides with slowed progress in reducing new infections, and likely complicates a lofty new federal plan to end the U.S. epidemic in 10 years.