PET/CT can add valuable information to aid the diagnosis of fever of unknown origin (FUO), according to a new multicenter, retrospective study published in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In a cohort of ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Children hospitalized with severe pneumonia can safely switch from injectable to oral antibiotics once they begin to recover, allowing many to return home sooner and complete treatment outside the hospital. That is according ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Researchers from the University of Cologne, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT present a clinical case in the New England Journal of Medicine that provides new insights ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (the bacterium that causes gonorrhea) has become one of the most urgent antimicrobial-resistant threats to public health worldwide. Clinicians expect to be confronted by rising rates of ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Certain antibiotics are overused in most countries, while too few people receive the specific antibiotic treatments they need, according to a study of antibiotic use across 186 countries published in The Lancet Public Health ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Macrophages are considered the "scavenger cells" of the immune system, but some pathogens exploit these very cells as hiding places. Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic has largely subsided, scientists continue to investigate why the virus proved so deadly, causing at least 3 million deaths worldwide, according to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization ...
Jul 20, 2026
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A volunteer was injected Friday with the first dose of a rapidly developed vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Oxford University said.
Jul 24, 2026
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The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.
Jul 24, 2026
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New research from the University of South Alabama is shedding light on an emerging bacterial cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs) that appears to be more common along the Gulf Coast than previously recognized.
Jul 24, 2026
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