Stephen Feller
Online Manage Editor at Healio
Online Managing Editor for infectious diseases at @GoHealio and @InfectDisNews. Former @UPI. Opinions are my own. #GoGators #HeatLifer
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1 week ago |
healio.com | Stephen Feller
Key takeaways:A CDC committee voted to recommend that people aged 50 to 59 years be vaccinated against RSV disease. The recommendation will be sent to the CDC chief of staff for consideration. A CDC committee has voted to expand its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine recommendation to include all people aged 50 to 59 years.
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1 week ago |
healio.com | Stephen Feller
Key takeaways: The system outperformed human analyses by 9% and exceeded WHO requirements for non-sputum triage tests for TB. It combines an ultrasound linked to a smartphone using a suite of deep learning AI models. VIENNA — A point-of-care lung ultrasound system connected to a smartphone combined with a suite of deep learning models outperformed human analyses as well as WHO requirements for non-sputum tuberculosis tests.
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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.
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2 weeks ago |
healio.com | Stephen Feller
Key takeaways:A mobile health care unit delivering ART and PrEP reduced the risk for death by roughly 70% among people who inject drugs. Nearly 1 in 10 new HIV diagnoses occur in this population. SAN FRANCISCO — The use of mobile health care units that distribute ART and PrEP medications increased uptake among people who inject drugs, a population at greater risk for acquiring HIV, according to a study.
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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.
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Mass layoffs across HHS this week, including several leaders at NIH, have sowed chaos and will make Americans less safe from disease, experts told @InfectDisNews. The cuts follow the termination of billions in grants and ending public health programs. https://t.co/EbNGyXfG0F
