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In a recent preprint* study posted to the medRxiv server, a team of researchers evaluated the impact of hybrid immunity (combining vaccination and recovery from infection) on severe acute respiratory ...

A common cold affects people differently. While some suffer from mild symptoms, for others, it can be life-threatening. A new ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses one of the greatest threats to global public health, with excessive antibiotic use driving the emergence of ...

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Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

Switching to a long-acting cabotegravir/rilpivirine antiretroviral regimen may be safe for patients with HIV who have prior hepatitis B virus exposure, a real-world study shows.

Since it was first detected in the U.S. in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds ...

Respiratory infections are the leading causes of hospitalizations, ED visits and mortality in children in the United States and worldwide.Babies and children have stuffy noses and coughs several times ...