Caitlyn Stulpin

New Jersey

Staff Writer, SLACK Incorporated at Healio

🦠Infectious disease reporter for @InfectDisNews 🥊Boxer/Boxing coach. Movie buff, stress baker & CrossFitter 🏋🏼‍♀️ Opinions are all me.

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Articles

Closed CDC lab was cornerstone of national, global STI science

3 days ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Stephen Feller |Caitlyn Stulpin

Read more Key takeaways: The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts painted a grim picture of STI surveillance in the wake of the lab’s closing. In early 2023, health officials in Massachusetts and at the CDC announced the detection of the first two cases of gonorrhea in the United States that were resistant or showed reduced susceptibility to five different classes of antibiotics.
HHS ends government-funded COVID-19 test program

3 days ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:$1 billion was spent on the program over the last 4 years. HHS is in the process of purchasing a supply of tests that can distinguish between COVID-19 and influenza to have on hand for emergencies. HHS has ended a government-funded program that distributed free COVID-19 tests to community organizations, a department spokesperson confirmed to Healio.
Q&A: Operational definition for sepsis should be updated, experts say

4 days ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Michael Klompas

Key takeaways:Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Experts say this should change as many patients “with sepsis” have conditions that mimic sepsis. Experts are calling for a modification to the operational definition for sepsis, which they say could improve patient outcomes by allowing care providers to focus on severe patients and aid in antibiotic stewardship efforts.
HHS cancels $766 million in funding for pandemic flu vaccines

1 week ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:The funding included $176 million given to Moderna last year and $590 million awarded in January. HHS said an internal review showed that the program did not meet scientific standards or safety expectations. HHS has terminated contracts with Moderna worth more than $700 million that were meant to fund the company’s development of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines, including the company’s H5 bird flu vaccine candidate.
Hand hygiene intervention with patient participation increases HCW compliance

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:As part of a pilot program, patients and visitors performed audits of HCW hand hygiene compliance. During the program, compliance increased to an average of 92%. ORLANDO — A hand hygiene intervention, which encouraged patients and visitors to the participating units to perform audits of health care workers, successfully improved compliance, researchers found.
FDA tells vaccine makers to expand warning labels on COVID-19 shots

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:The FDA is requiring Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to expand warning labels on COVID-19 vaccines. The agency cited estimates of myocarditis and pericarditis and study data showing the persistence of abnormalities. The FDA has told vaccine manufacturers to expand the warning labels on their COVID-19 shots with more information about the risk for rare heart conditions following vaccination.
FDA will restrict future COVID-19 vaccines based on age, risk factors

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Caitlyn Stulpin |Stephen Feller

FDA officials outlined new restrictions for COVID-19 vaccine approvals in the United States that could limit their use among healthy people. The policy shift was announced Tuesday in a New England Journal of Medicine article written by FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, and Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, who leads the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and is the agency’s top vaccine regulator.
Hepatitis A and E: Underappreciated public health threats

2 weeks ago | healio.com | Monica Stonehill |Caitlyn Stulpin

Currently, more than 300 million people are diagnosed with hepatitis around the world, according to the World Hepatitis Alliance. Cases continue to rise, with more than 2 million new cases each year. Among the five hepatitis viruses, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and hepatitis D usually cause chronic disease, liver cancer and cirrhosis, whereas hepatitis A and hepatitis E cause acute disease but may lead to more serious complications in certain populations, including pregnant people.
Consistent disinfection in patient room sinks vital for reducing pathogen spread

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

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Q&A: Immunoengineering shows promise for treating deadly infections

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin

Key takeaways:Immunoengineering has previously been beneficial for treating cancers. This concept could also benefit the ID field in terms of antimicrobial resistance and infections among immunocompromised patients. Immunoengineering, which has been beneficial to other medical specialties, could be used in the infectious diseases field to help treat a variety of potentially deadly infections by boosting patient immunity, researchers said.