Kenneth Bender

Universal childhood immunizations should continue to include hepatitis A to avoid reversing 3 decades of progress toward eliminating the infection, say contributors to the previous, long-standing CDC guidance.

Five days of nitrofurantoin was found superior to single-dose fosfomycin for uncomplicated UTI in women, prompting investigators to recommend choosing efficacy over convenience.

Modeling of the ACIP recommendation to replace universal birth-dose HepB vaccination with vaccination based on "shared decision" and maternal status shows substantially more maternal screening or vaccinating infants of unscreened mothers will be necessary to mitigate increase in infections.

An increase in Plasmodium vivax malaria in New York City follows trends in migration from regions where it is endemic.

Effectiveness of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) with doxycycline for chlamydia and syphilis comes with increase in resistant gonorrhea.

New data on flu vaccine for children counter the contention that a lack of contemporaneous randomized data justifies its removal from recommended annual immunizations.

Meta-analysis finds approximately 1% of well-appearing outpatient infants aged 60 to 90 days with fever have an invasive bacterial infection.

One in five patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection achieved functional cure in two phase 3 trials with the investigational agent.

An investigational dual vaccine against Lassa fever and rabies demonstrates promise against priority target plaguing West Africa.

An FDA advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend mRNA-1010 for approval, after the Agency initially refused to review the application and HHS cancelled contracts supporting mRNA vaccine development.