Addiction Science & Clinical Practice - Hospitalizations for acute bacterial and fungal infections related to injection drug use are increasing in the background of the United States drug...

Public health leader and epidemiologist who led successful efforts to eradicate smallpox. Born on March 12, 1936, in Decorah, IA, USA, he died from congestive heart failure in Atlanta, GA, USA, on Jan...

Explore best practices for diagnosing fever in returning travelers: standard tests, new tools and laboratory workflow tips in this webinar.

Sidelining our field will inevitably leave us all unprepared for the next threat

Background and aims The overdose epidemic accounts for more than 89 000 deaths across the United States annually. Despite the availability of medications and therapies to treat substance use disorde.....

After 30 years of health improvements around the world, funding cuts to global health could put lifesaving health care at risk between now and 2030

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In this article on measles, the authors review the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and associated illnesses as well as treatment and prevention strategies.

AbstractBackground. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, with a high risk of metastatic infections. Un

he fuel that propels Academic Health Centers like UAB comes, in large part, from NIH funding.

This brief provides an overview of vaccine coverage requirements by payer or program, as they relate to ACIP and the CDC.

There are certain irrefutable verities when, like me, you’re an infectious diseases specialist married to a pediatrician. Here are our top two, which are deeply interrelated: Infectious deaths in chil...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

"This is a setback of probably a decade for HIV vaccine research," one scientist said.

Halt to foreign “subawards” disrupts ongoing global studies and has researchers scrambling to fulfill ethical obligations to trial volunteers

The annual Holly Smith Visiting Professorship is named for Lloyd Hollingsworth “Holly” Smith Jr., MD, a visionary physician-scientist whose uncompromising quest for excellence over a career spanning h...

This study examines the impact of National Institutes of Health grant terminations on the US research enterprise by quantifying the number and funding amount of these terminations and characterizing t...

The endless churn of damaging actions from the Trump administration toward science—from freezing and canceling grants to ending programs that encourage greater participation in science—has wreaked hav...

During his State of the Union address in 2019, President Trump pledged, “to defeat AIDS in America and beyond,” urging Congress to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to end the HIV epidemic in the...