Gerard Gallagher

1 week 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.

1 week ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Kristen Dowd

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world. The conference, known informally for years as ECCMID, was renamed last year for the organization that runs it — the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) — and to reflect its global focus, organizers said.

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

Key takeaways: HHS layoffs last week gutted a CDC lab dedicated to tracking STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. The lab is only one of three in the world that performs this function. The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including gonorrhea. “The lab ... is kind of the cornerstone of much of the work that we do,” Joseph N.

3 weeks ago | healio.com | Gerard Gallagher |Stephen Feller |Sara Kellner |Caitlyn Stulpin

Read more Key takeaways: HHS began laying off 20,000 workers from various health agencies. The layoffs are part of a raft of cuts to the nation’s health care infrastructure that has alarmed experts. The mass layoffs initiated by HHS this week, including in the upper echelons of the NIH, have sowed chaos and will make Americans less safe from disease, experts warned.

1 month ago | healio.com | Sara Kellner |Gerard Gallagher

Key takeaways: Healio confirmed that the White House withdrew Weldon’s nomination to be CDC director. While in Congress, Weldon questioned the safety of vaccines, despite many studies demonstrating their safety. The White House withdrew the nomination of David Weldon, MD, to be CDC director on Thursday morning, just hours before he was to appear before a Senate committee.