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An executive order, a confirmed director, and 20 straight months of measles: The State of US Vaccine Policy
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (749+ words) Unbiased Science / Izzy Brandstetter Figueroa Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have been watching a lot of John Oliver lately, and I admit that writing this week’s issue feels a…...
Prescriptions for leucovorin soar after White House announcement on autism
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (837+ words) Iryna Olkhova / iStock Following a White House press conference suggesting leucovorin as a treatment for autism in September 2025, and despite a lack of supporting data, US prescriptions of the drug soared, according to a paper published yesterday in The New…...
More recalls as US faces several foodborne illness outbreaks
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (1008+ words) The summer of 2026 continues to bring toilet trouble for thousands of Americans, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirming 13,895 Cyclospora cases and an additional 10,455 infections under investigation. Of the total, 3,427 Cyclospora cases are new this week. And…...
Global rubella cases have dropped dramatically despite 2024 uptick, according to CDC analysis
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (529+ words) Carlos Alonso / CDC Global cases of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) have dropped 70% since 2012 as vaccine uptake soared, but they rebounded slightly in 2024, scientists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their UK partners said in a recent…...
COMMENTARY: We must address the market challenges behind microbiome-sparing antibiotics
7+ hour, 43+ min ago (615+ words) Antibiotic prescriptions are often measured in days. But their effects on the gut microbiome may be measured in years. That's one concerning finding from a recent study in Nature Medicine that examined antibiotic prescribing data and fecal metagenomic samples from…...
COVID vaccination may have prevented more than 4,000 deaths in one Washington county
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (558+ words) Jelena Stanojkovic / iStock COVID-19 vaccination may have prevented more than 16,000 hospitalizations and 4,000 deaths in one Washington county during the first eight months of the vaccine rollout, according to a new modeling study published last week in BMC Public Health. The…...
DR Congo Ebola outbreak on track to be largest in history
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1096+ words) Today during general remarks, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to become the world’s largest, outpacing the West African outbreak of…...
Flu vaccines helped prevent US hospitalizations, emergency and urgent-care visits in 2024-25
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1096+ words) Experts considered the 2024-25 influenza season severe, the most serious since the 2017-18 season. Vaccination against flu protected US adults and children from hospitalization and needing outpatient medical care, according to a paper published last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. “These…...
Organizations hit back at Trump’s call to reduce childhood vaccines
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (489+ words) “This executive order will deny Americans access to life-saving vaccines, increase vaccine hesitancy, and make America’s children and adults less healthy,” the statement read. “The science about vaccines and their efficacy has not changed." Medical organizations sounded the alarm that…...
Study: 10% of hospitalized pneumonia patients tested for Coccidioides were infected
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1096+ words) Of 1,141 adult patients in Arizona hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia, 76% were tested for Coccidioides infection, and 10% had positive results, Mayo Clinic Phoenix researchers report in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The researchers reviewed the medical records of CAP patients admitted to Mayo…...