The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its guidance for the screening of pregnant women for asymptomatic bacteriuria, downgrading the strength of the recommendation from grade A to grade B.
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Researchers reviewed data on more than 2.5 million patients from the Premier Healthcare Database to analyze the current burden, outcomes, and costs of managing patients with sepsis.
In an FDA statement, Scott Gotlieb, MD, discusses the pathogen added to the list of foodborne pathogens to routinely test for, why it was added, and the FDA’s ongoing efforts to screen domestic and imported...
Research presented at the CDC’s International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2018 suggests that socioeconomic status plays a large role in salmonella infection.
Research presented at the CDC’s International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2018 investigated the prevalence of MRSA among health care workers vs the general population.
Research presented at the CDC’s International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases 2018 investigated the prevalence and etiology of emerging zoonotic diseases.
In a new study of more than 300,000 adults, researchers aimed to determine the incidence of MRSA and Clostridium difficile infection among patients with and without penicillin allergy who were treated with...
The standard treatment duration for tuberculosis is 6 months. To see if this period could be reduced, researchers tested whether a higher daily dose of rifampin could effectively treat TB in a shorter...
