New guidelines recommend antibiotic treatment for sore throats in high-risk children and adolescents without diagnostic confirmation of strep A to prevent acute rheumatic fever. Released…
More than 2700 pertussis cases in Queensland this year have prompted the RACGP to call for free vaccinations for all its residents. It says infections…
Patients with influenza have a 4.7-fold increased risk of stroke in the 28 days since initial infection, according to a new meta-analysis. Published in Cardiovascular…
The US drug watchdog has approved a world-first biannual HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis injection, and the manufacturer has already lodged a TGA application. Gilead’s HIV-1 capsid…
The clues are in the names: Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis are genetically similar bacteria. That is why NHS England’s world-first, free gonorrhoea vaccination program, targeting…
In a case that gives flashbacks to 2021, dermatologists initially speculated that COVID-19 had caused their patient’s chilblains, before a repeat reaction after a second…
Rising STI cases are forcing sexual health doctors to reject thousands of patients a year, a leading GP says. Last year, almost 56,000 consultations —…
A woman has died of a brain infection after performing nasal irrigation using water taken directly from her motorhome’s tap, US investigators report. The 71-year-old woman…
Deferring the first routine MMR vaccination to 12 months could put babies at unnecessary risk of measles amid a national outbreak of at least 77…
Widespread use of nirsevimab in infants may reduce RSV-related hospitalisations by more than half, suggests a real-world study published in the Medical Journal of Australia.…
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