Alexandra Ward

When taken consistently, PrEP can reduce the risk of HIV infection by 92%. So why aren’t more health care professionals prescribing it to adolescents, who continue to have an increased HIV incidence rate nationally?

Conducting preoperative urine cultures to identify and treat asymptomatic bacteriuria does not necessarily mean better postoperative outcomes, according to a new JAMA Surgery study.

Investigators at Johns Hopkins have developed a new saliva-based assay that would make norovirus infection testing less invasive.

HIV diagnostics have gone mobile thanks to a new cellphone app and 3D-printed attachment that use optical sensing and micromotor motion to detect the presence of HIV-1 in a single drop of blood.

Pregnant women have been routinely excluded from the vaccination research and development process, even though this vulnerable class is sometimes uniquely affected by infectious disease outbreaks.

Young black gay men are strikingly more likely to have an HIV infection despite fewer sexual partners and more frequent screenings.

University of Hawaii medical school investigators have developed a Zika virus vaccine candidate that is proving effective in preclinical trials.

Bilirubin level, age, and sex should all be considered when assessing the need for a ciprofloxacin dose reduction in critically ill patients, German investigators reported in a new study published this week.

The rate of drug use-associated infective endocarditis hospitalizations and valve surgeries increased more than 12-fold in one US state, a new 10-year study shows.

Although decontamination strategies are thought to generally slash the rate of infection in ICUs, a new study finds that the use oral and digestive tract decontaminants in ventilated ICU patients is not associated with a reduction in antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections.