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Margaret Aldrich, MD, provides insight around this concept, addressing stewardship within this patient population, and how their institution’s collaborative work environment helps all of the department’s clinicians.

Gilead Sciences reported positive phase 3 ARTISTRY-2 results demonstrating that a once-daily single-tablet combination of bictegravir and lenacapavir is statistically noninferior to bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide tablets in virologically suppressed adults with HIV. The company plans to file for regulatory submissions for approval.

With a novel, non–cross-resistant mechanism and phase 3 data showing noninferior efficacy to injectable standard therapy, zoliflodacin could become a novel treatment that expands clinician choice and strengthens global efforts to combat antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea. Innoviva CMO David Altarac, MD, offers further insights about the newly-approved antibiotic and its potential place in the market.

This week, check out our coverage on 2 antibiotic FDA approvals, and clinicians weigh in on the ACIP recommendations on the hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine.

The antibiotic's approval was based from phase 3 results demonstrating noninferiority to a combination therapy.

Infectious disease pediatrician Sharon Nachman, MD, talks about how the new recommendations will defer immunization, leading to a whole host of issues and negative impacts on long-term public health.

GSK’s David Payne, PhD, provides more information are the data from the EAGLE-1 trial.

The federal nod was given based from the phase 3 data of the EAGLE-1 trial, which showed noninferiority to combination therapy. This approval provides a new oral option.

NYU’s Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD, continues our Media Day discussion around these illnesses and how in New York City, clinicians need to be prepared to decipher in differential diagnosis for these potential diseases.

In episode 2 of our Media Day series with New York University (NYU), Angelica Cifuentes Kottkamp, MD, discusses its vaccine center and their work around COVID-19 vaccines, as well as the importance of achieving diversity in clinical trials.

Robert Hopkins Jr, MD, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, discusses the changes in the new vaccine recommendations and what potential serious consequences may be seen as a result.

The federal agency approved Augmentin XR in just 2 months through the new CNPV pilot program, marking a potential step toward rebuilding domestic antibiotic manufacturing and addressing drug shortages.

Questions raised about unverified FDA claims linking COVID-19 vaccines to pediatric deaths, and concerns that proposed vaccine testing requirements could delay access to key immunizations.