Educational interventions to increase Tdap vaccination rates among pregnant women
The highly contagious respiratory infection pertussis remains a public health problem for the United States.1 Infants have the highest morbidity…
Infection prevention
Deaths from coronavirus rise
In the past 24 hours, news coverage of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China has become more and more rampant. I…
First coronavirus patient identified in U.S.
On the heels of today’s earlier post regarding the increase mortality rates in Wuhan, China from the coronavirus, The New York…
First FDA-approved treatment for preventing Ebola virus
In late December 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of Merck’s Ervebo, the first FDA-approved…
Study fails to show benefit of adding vitamin C to treatment of septic shock
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medial Association aimed to examine if a treatment combination of…