Swine flu found to pose high risk to new mothers ; Officials revise CDC guidelines on vaccinesAlicia Chang
All changes were incorporated into the final manuscript before ASCO Evidence-Based Medicine Committee (EBMC) review and approval. All ASCO guidelines are ultimately reviewed and approved by the Expert Panel and the ASCO EBMC before submission to the Journal of Clinical Oncology for editorial review an...
The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionposted the guidelinesFriday, along with a second set for organizing and attending big gatherings such as concerts, sporting events, protests and political rallies. But the guidelines are "not intended to endorse any particular type of event," the CDC's...
This year's new"community snapshot"is the CDC's latest attempt to repackage its data in one place for Americans deciding when to take extraprecautionsrecommended in itsguidelines, like masking ortesting, going into the fall and winter. It centers around a sweeping new week...
The CDC Guidelines for TB Control address the need for dilution of airborne bacteria in rooms occupied by patients with known or suspected TB infection. Dilution is a key engineering control in prevention of the spread of TB. The CDC explains that room air must be kept moving throughout all ...
“Without school-based testing, no one can enforce a five-day COVID policy,” he said via text message. Ridley School District in the Philadelphia suburbs was already using a policy similar to the new CDC guidelines, said Superintendent Lee Ann Wentzel. Stu...
"Preliminary analysis of A[H5N1] viruses has not found changes that would make these viruses resistant to current FDA-approved flu antiviral medications, so these are believed to be effective against these viruses," the CDC said. As for the human case in Texas, "CDC is worki...
year to draw up a new"pan-respiratory" approachblending together federal recommendations forCOVID-19, flu and RSV. Cohen blamed the emergence of the highly mutated variantBA.2.86last summer and fall, and the fast-spreading descendant it spawned,JN.1, for delaying the rollout of the new ...
In an updatedreportthis week, the CDC's disease forecasters said RSV hospitalizations were at levels worse than pre-pandemic seasons, but likely on track to reach a "lower and later peak" than last year. Flu trends have also been accelerating nationwide, the agency said, with more expected ...
to CNN. “The overwhelmingly abundant evidence for this virus over the past 4 years tells us that it is a far more dangerous pathogen than flu, which lacks seasonality, is still evolving, has induced Long Covid in tens of millions of throughout the worlds, and cannot be ‘FLU-ified.’...