Infectious Disease

AAOS developed 14 strong and moderate-strength recommendations to decrease surgical site infections after major extremity trauma

Improvement in mean P/F ratio with no reported toxicity observed among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and mild-to-moderate ARDS

CoVac-1, a peptide vaccine, induces T-cell immune responses in those with B-cell deficiencies, particularly leukemia and lymphoma patients

Difference in absolute risk for three versus four doses was 180.1 and 68.8 cases per 100,000 for COVID-19-related hospitalization, severe COVID-19

Samples of the virus collected from four infected people had two mutations previously identified in farmed mink in Europe

87 percent of 397 children hospitalized during omicron predominance unvaccinated; 34 percent of unvaccinated children were Black

Roughly one in five children hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 and upper airway infection had severe disease

Among beneficiaries without low-income subsidy, noninitiation reported in 30 percent of those with new prescriptions for anticancer drugs

Evidence shows worse clinical outcomes on day 5 for the intervention group versus the usual-care group

Goal of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics is to act as a 'National Weather Service' for infectious disease outbreaks