A global consensus meeting was convened to go over current evidence and knowledge gaps and propose collaborative studies on population-wide screening and eradication of Helicobacter pylori for the prevention of gastric cancer (GC).
Regardless of interval or dose level, both heterologous and homologous Ad26, MVA Ebola vaccine regimens were observed to be well tolerated in healthy adults.
Researchers developed a microsimulation model of the natural history of injection opioid use to assess long-term infective endocarditis mortality associated with injection opioid use in the United States.
From 2008 to 2018, there was an increase in shingles vaccination among adults aged 60 years and older, with demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic variations in vaccination rates.
A total of 62 cases of mumps were found to have occurred across 6 states and linked to exposure of wedding attendees to an asymptomatic and fully vaccinated individual.
Treatment with the thrombin inhibitor dabigatran was associated with a decreased incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia compared with treatment with the factor Xa inhibitors rivaroxaban and apixaban.
Authors of this viewpoint described the current challenges in the management of cytokine storm syndromes and reviewed the safety profile of intravenous anakinra.
The FDA has approved MenQuadfiTM Meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y, W; Sanofi Pasteur) Conjugate Vaccine for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, W, and Y in patients aged ≥2 years.