John Parkinson

John Parkinson is the assistant managing editor for Contagion. Prior to joining MJH Life Sciences in 2020, he has covered a variety of fields and markets including diabetes, oncology, ophthalmology, IT, travel, and local news. You can email him at jparkinson@mjhlifesciences.com.

Articles by John Parkinson

After the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) revised their clinical breakpoints for susceptibility test results, a laboratory at a major medical center in a large midwest city evaluated enterobacterales as it relates to bloodstream infections (BSI) and piperacillin/tazobactam.

After Helen Boucher, MD, gave the Maxwell Finland presentation she spoke of the continuing issues as well as the encouraging aspects that have institutions working on the problem.

There is an evolution of thinking about how this is treated and investigational therapies are looking to help these patients improve not only their medical conditions but give them back their quality-of-life.

The vaccine is meant to be administered during the third trimester of pregnancy to the expecting mother to prevent this respiratory disease in infants younger than 2 months of age.

WHO and CDC have laid out some ambitious goals for the treatment of hepatitis C, and HCV co-discoverer and vaccine developer Michael Houghton, PhD, offers some insights and commentary on whether he feels it is realistic to consider the eradication of this stubborn and subtle virus.

The federal agency's recommendation for both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech updated bivalent vaccines allows people to get the booster dose this fall.