Tuberculous meningitis is often lethal, and many survivors have disabilities despite antimicrobial treatment and adjunctive glucocorticoid therapy. Standard-dose rifampin has limited central nervou...

Podcastepisode · I selskab med Q · 10.10.2025 · 1 t. 4 min.

Use of some antifungal pesticides may select for resistant fungi in the environment, which can then endanger human health. Coordinated regulatory processes in this area are important.

Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, is a candidate for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH). In this ongoing phase 3, multicenter, randomize...

Preclinical and observational studies suggest that exercise may improve cancer outcomes. However, definitive level 1 evidence is lacking. In this phase 3, randomized trial conducted at 55 centers, ...

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Is persons with well-treated HIV still infectious: No, they are not !!! The Danish AIDS foundation celebrated its 40 years anniversary last Friday. We were recognised with an award for contributing ...

Treatment of Mpox: the drug regulators and clinicians though worked and used for routine care, failed to show efficacy in this state-of-the-art designed placebo-controlled trial. #MPoxTherapy #Clini...

Forfatter Mathilde Walter Clark advarer om, at svin kan udløse den næste pandemi. Men professor Jens Lundgren vurderer, at risikoen er ekstremt lille.

Podcast Episode · I selskab med Q · 07/03/2025 · 1h 15m

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United States, with sporadic human cases. We describe characteristics of human A...

President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back at the U.S.’ demand for a $500 billion deal for its natural resources, saying that the U.S.’s aid grants are not debts, during the Ukraine: Year 2025 forum in ...

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Short email from a longtime colleague, working in Africa at a PEPFAR site: Without USAID, PEPFAR is essentially dead. I got chills reading this. PEPFAR, the abbreviation for the President’s Emergency ...

For decades, poor treatment options and low-quality evidence plagued care for patients with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. The advent of new drugs to treat tuberculosis and enhanced funding now p...

For decades after the identification of mpox in humans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1970, the disease was largely confined to the rural areas of Central and West Africa and thus did...

The president told reporters the island's 57,000 residents "want to be with us".

Over the past two years, mpox has twice been declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”, PHEIC by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2022, it was in response to a global outbreak of a new clade IIb primarily among men who have sex with men (MSM), ultimately with >100,000 cases reported worldwide centered in Europe and the US [1]. In August 2024, it was in response to a complex outbreak originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, and many fold increase in mpox cases caused by the original central African clade I variant (now designated Ia), but also the emergence of a human-to-human transmitted clade Ib that has since spread to neighboring countries [2].

In early 2024, an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle in the USA. The epidemic remains uncontrolled, with spillbacks into poultry, wild birds...

While machine learning offers diverse techniques suitable for exploring various medical research questions, a cohesive synergistic framework can facilitate the integration and understanding of new app...

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At the beginning of the 2018–2020 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), no vaccine had been licensed. However, cluster-randomized evidence from Guinea...

Standard multidrug therapy for leprosy may be associated with severe side effects, which add to the stigma and discrimination that affect persons with the disease. In addition, the threat posed by ...

In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...

NIH-funded study finds risk of human infection continues to remain low.

In most countries, especially in low-income and middle-income countries, diabetes treatment has not increased at all or has not increased sufficiently in comparison with the rise in prevalence. The bu...

Combining radiotherapy with standard of care plus abiraterone improves radiographic progression-free survival and castration resistance-free survival, but not overall survival in patients with low-vol...

A new RCT of HEPA filters for residential care homes gets heads spinning