Gerard Gallagher

An hourlong session during this year’s ESCMID Global raised awareness of hospital sinks and toilets as a source of outbreaks caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Hillary A. Craddock, PhD, MPH, lecturer in the department of public health and epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, summarized the challenges of reducing the spread of bacteria from hospital hand

The FDA on Monday approved the first medication for COVID-19 prevention that people can take after they have been exposed to someone with the disease, according to the drug's manufacturer, Shionogi.

Health officials have identified shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in five states as the source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC confirmed Friday.

The evidence remains strong that contaminated iceberg lettuce sourced by Taylor Farms in Mexico is to blame for the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak

The Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee delayed a scheduled vote Thursday on the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, to be the next CDC director.

A 21-year-old man became the latest person potentially cured of HIV after receiving stem cells from a donor with a rare mutation that makes people naturally resistant to the virus, physicians reported Monday.

Disruptions to funding and new policies aimed at aligning foreign aid programs with the Trump administration’s agenda have had a broad and negative impact on a critical global HIV/AIDS treatment program, new research showed.According to survey responses from more than 160 facilities in dozens of countries, 77% of implementing partners of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS

Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, received bipartisan support from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Wednesday on her nomination for CDC director.

Federal officials said this week that the United States will release $600 million in held-up funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — another sign

Health officials in Michigan reported the deaths of two people who had cyclosporiasis — the first deaths linked to the ongoing outbreak of the diarrheal illness that has impacted at least nine states.