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My life in public health has taught me that no crisis should go unexploited for its potential to improve health care delivery. For example, publicity about an outbreak of gastrointestinal infection has the benefit of…
Policy reforms and legislation to enhance the authority of pharmacists to administer vaccines may lead to increased immunization rates among individuals in low-income communities, especially older adults. These findings were published in the Journal of…
Although the spotlight has been on the COVID-19 pandemic during the past few years, attention has turned toward the recent outbreak of monkeypox. First observed among humans in 1970 during efforts to eradicate variola virus…
The aluminum phosphate-adjuvanted inactivated enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine was highly effective for the prevention of EV71-associated infections among infants and children. These findings, from a phase 3 trial, were published in The Lancet. This prospective,…
Treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) and infectious disease (ID) has traditionally been viewed as the individual responsibility of mental health professionals and ID physicians, respectively. However, the need for an integrated treatment approach has…
Study data published in the New England Journal of Medicine support the efficacy of a novel microbiome therapeutic consisting of purified Firmicutes spores for the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile (C difficile) infection. This phase…
Treatment with investigational, microbiota-based, live biotherapeutic RBX2660 reduced recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) in patients with rCDI and comorbid conditions, according to research presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2021 Annual Meeting, held…
After the rollout of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program in New York City, the rates of vaccine-related HPV types decreased but nonvaccine high-risk HPV types increased among adolescent girls and young women, according to…
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