FRIDAY, Dec. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- When an outbreak of mpox first hit the United States in 2022, a vaccine called ...

In this Review, we examine the concurrent outbreaks of mpox in Africa, focusing on clade 1a, the newly emerged clade 1b, and ...

Many cancer deaths are caused by the spread of the cancer to other areas and not by the original tumor. Researchers found that some patients have a greater genetic predisposition to the disease ...

Siga Technologies' antiviral drug tecovirimat did not reduce the time to lesion resolution or have an effect on pain among ...

Of 33 people interviewed by health officials, 27 (82%) reported eating cucumbers in the days prior to illness.

MLST: Multilocus sequence typing; ND: Not determined; NG-MAST: Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence typing; ST: Sequence type; XDR: Extensively drug-resistant. † No test-of-cure to ...

The reality is some states have it worse than others. A team at Inoxoft analyzed the number of reported spam calls in each state on a daily basis for nine months, starting at the beginning of 2024.

However, investigators in San Francisco recently reported an unusual cluster of nine patients who developed HIV-associated KS despite good immune function. At the time of KS diagnosis, patients ...

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has confirmed the country’s first case of a more severe type of mpox in a person in Manitoba, though it says the risk to the general population ...

Visits to emergency rooms for drug overdoses ... and 122 five years ago in 2018, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention among participating states.

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed.