infectious disease

Health Helen Branswell

Report: Measles cases and deaths increase worldwide, as childhood vaccinations rates decline

Health Helen Branswell

FDA grants approval for first time to a home test for chlamydia and gonorrhea

Health Matthew Herper

Study suggests Covid rebound is far more common with Paxlovid than without

Health Helen Branswell

U.K. recommendation could lead to world’s first use of meningitis vaccine to curb gonorrhea

Health Helen Branswell

Congenital syphilis cases in the U.S. have skyrocketed, CDC says

Health Helen Branswell

New antibiotic targets gonorrhea as well as last existing treatment, study shows

Health Helen Branswell

‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders vaccine uptake

In the Lab Jason Mast

Giant sloths and woolly mammoths: Mining past creatures’ DNA for future antibiotics

Health Helen Branswell

AstraZeneca, maker of FluMist, seeks to allow at-home administration of vaccine

Health Helen Branswell

CDC recommends rationing of RSV shot due to shortages

Health Deborah Balthazar

Maternal Covid-19 vaccination offers infants immunity for up to 6 months

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

To protect chickens from bird flu, researchers try to CRISPR in immunity

Health Helen Branswell

Access to new tools to combat RSV in babies likely to prove challenging

Health Helen Branswell

FDA expert panel endorses idea of removing a component from flu vaccine

First Opinion David Scales, Sara Gorman, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

How headlines about the RSV antibody injection could cloud parents’ decision-making

Health Annalisa Merelli

WHO recommends second malaria vaccine, hoping to address supply issues

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J agrees not to enforce patents on a key tuberculosis drug in dozens of poor countries

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Unitaid slams J&J over pricing and patents for a tuberculosis drug

Health Helen Branswell

WHO recommends dropping component of many flu vaccines

Health Helen Branswell

Rollout of Covid vaccines is bumpy, but not unexpected, experts say

Health Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Northeastern among sites chosen by CDC to establish ‘National Weather Service’ for infectious disease

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: After a high-profile pressure campaign, Cepheid agrees to sell a TB test at cost

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: South Africa investigates Johnson & Johnson over ‘excessive pricing’ for its TB drug

Health Helen Branswell

Polio transmission was supposed to end by 2023. A new report explains why it won’t.

Pharmalot Lizzy Lawrence and Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Novelist John Green launches attack on Cepheid over the price of its TB test

Health Helen Branswell

Amid another rise in cases, Covid’s new normal has set in

Health Helen Branswell

Group behind ProMED fires three top moderators amid strike

Health Andrew Joseph

Vaccine experts urge more inclusivity in clinical trials

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J cuts the price of its lifesaving TB pill by more than half for many low- and middle-income countries