Jonna Lorenz

A multicenter, randomized trial of patients in Europe and India showed improvements in mortality among patients with COVID-19 who received a higher dose of dexamethasone.

People who inject drugs (PWID) remain at risk of HIV infection, according to a recent report by the CDC, which found HIV infection and HIV-associated behaviors remained steady between 2015 and 2018.

A new study in Israel supports the use of a shorter course of antibiotics for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infection in recipients of kidney transplants.

Incidences of Clostridioides difficile infection have risen in recent years, and understanding risk factors can help practitioners address associated mortality, morbidity and health care costs.

St. Joseph Mercy Health System launched a program in February to provide infusion of monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19 in patients’ homes.

Unapproved stem cell treatments derived from umbilical cord blood can pose potential risks to patients without proven benefits, a CDC study shows.

No ICU admissions or deaths were reported among Native American patients treated with monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19 in a recent study.

The TakeMeHome program, a public-private partnership to distribute HIV self-test home kits to at-risk populations, is reaching at-risk individuals who weren’t otherwise accessing testing.

The HIV In-hospital Mortality Prediction (HIV-IMP) risk score showed good discrimination and calibration and may be useful in guiding clinical decision-making.

Pregnant women infected with certain strains of human papillomavirus during pregnancy had a nearly fourfold greater risk of preterm labor.

Strong public health measures coupled with infection control practices can contain the spread of Candida auris.

After two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, 83% of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients showed positive antibody response.

A recent study examining trends in time-to-antibiotics among veterans hospitalized with sepsis found that patients received antibiotics faster over time.

Changes in perceptions about the severity of HIV with advances in treatment and efforts to normalize living with the disease may create challenges for HIV prevention, a new study from the Netherlands suggests.

HIV coinfection was associated with a 3.7-fold increase in the risk of non-liver-related cancer among patients with hepatitis C virus infection, a new study found.

Optimizing delivery of HIV preexposure prophylaxis will take more than access to health care, according to a recent analysis of PrEP use behaviors among adults in an integrated health system.

Incidence of cholangitis with mult-drug resistant bacteria was higher among patients who regularly use proton pump inhibitors, a new study in Japan found.

Purified nisin is effective at killing Clostridioides difficile, a recent ex vivo study demonstrated, opening up the potential to use the bacteriocin as a treatment.

Global use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis has risen as more countries have adopted World Health Organization recommendations.

The adoption of numerous HIV prevention measures was associated with an 80% drop in the number of HIV diagnoses, a study evaluating the success of 56 Dean Street in London found.

Positive results of a phase 3 trial of Regeneron’s monoclonal antibodies treatment REGEN-COV among people at high risk for COVID-19 because of household exposure support the drug’s use for post-exposure prophylaxis.

Attendance of professional and college football games may resume with COVID-19 mitigation measures, according to a study that found no association between games with limited attendance and COVID-19 cases.

Three HIV screening strategies identified comparable numbers of new HIV diagnoses, a new study found.

A clinical decision support (CDS) strategy including a default influenza vaccine order for eligible patients, a nursing script using a presumptive strategy, and education for clinicians, was associated with significant improvement in vaccination rates among hospitalized children, a new study showed.

A recent study of sexually active young women in Africa found that initiation of HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was high at 95% and one-fifth showed high adherence at 6 months.

Use of remdesivir for COVID-19 was associated with longer hospital stays but was not associated with improved mortality, a recent study of 2344 patients at 123 VA hospitals found.

An emergency department in Canada saw a steep drop in emergency department visits and a spike in the proportion of serious bacterial infections among newborns and young infants during the first year of the pandemic, a new study found.

US residents with HIV have higher rates of mortality than their peers without infection, but the gap is narrowing, a recent study showed.

Life expectancy for Black and Hispanic Americans dropped 2 to 3 times more than that of White Americans during the pandemic, a research letter in JAMA Network Open said.

Kansas counties that adopted mask mandates saw a 60% drop in COVID-19 cases, a new study found.