Gerard Gallagher

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.

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.

1 month ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher

HONOLULU — The results of a large observational study provided more evidence that receiving antibiotics in the first 2 years of life can increase a child’s risk for obesity, researchers reported. The study did not see a similar relationship between antibiotic use in the year leading up to a pregnancy all the way through the perinatal period, according to results presented at PAS by Sofia Ainonen, MD, a pediatric resident at the Oulu University Hospital in Oulu, Finland.

1 month ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher

Read more HONOLULU — New study findings provided more promising data for primary care-based telehealth. Researchers here reported the results of a study of more than a half-million pediatric encounters for acute respiratory tract infection, which found that physicians providing telehealth services integrated into a primary care practice were even more judicious in their antibiotic prescribing than physicians who saw children in the office.

1 month ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher

Key takeaways:Having acute RSV raised the risk for death within a year by 2.7 times among Danish adults. There are three RSV vaccines available for use in the United States, but uptake has been sluggish. VIENNA — After decades of fits and starts, scientists finally got the world’s first vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus across the finish line in 2023.