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The organization announced this year's event, which aims to bring together stakeholders in Washington, DC, to advance awareness, policy, and patient-centered solutions for Clostridioides difficile infection.

In the second installment of the short series around fungal infections, Jatin Vyas, PhD, MD, discusses the increase in Candida auris including its unique clades and past challenges in diagnosing this difficult-to-treat infection.

In 2018, the FDA approved omadacycline as a new oral/intravenous third generation tetracycline to treat Community Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia (CABP) and Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections (ABSSSI). Here is a clinical overview of omadacycline as well as recent phase 2 clinical trial results favoring oral omadacycline as an oral treatment option for Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary disease.

Jatin Vyas, PhD, MD, discusses where the research is headed as it takes a page from the oncology world in trying to harness the immune system and combining with fungal therapeutics to treat these difficult infections.

Martin Gartland, PhD, discusses early data on the investigational therapy, VH184, including the potential for long-acting treatment and looking to address emerging drug resistance challenges.

This week, read about a new COVID variant, the test and treat paradigm model for hepatitis C, and a mission around bringing Americans with Ebola back to the US.

The latest CDC numbers show a 5.92% increase of measles cases from week-to-week. This is a decrease in the percentage of cases from last week where there was a 9.18% increase.

Despite the federal government’s recent stance on pandemic planning, author Kevin Hazzard reminds us of the importance of public health work in this area.

In this episode, author Kevin Hazzard talks about the preflight logistics as well as other issues that needed to be corrected for successful transatlantic flights.

In our second episode of our series, author Kevin Hazzard discusses the measures needed to protect the pilots and medical staff on board the plane from contracting Ebola.

A small airline company with a cowboy mentality stepped up to become the first aviation company to fly American patients back to the US to receive treatment.

A newly identified SARS-CoV-2 variant, BA32, is spreading globally with mutations that may reduce vaccine and prior infection protection, underscoring the continued importance of genomic surveillance.

New research from UC San Francisco (UCSF) suggests hepatitis C cure may be reliably confirmed as early as four weeks after treatment, potentially improving care access for underserved populations.