Gale Scott

A combination of tenofovir and alafenamide got FDA approval for treatment of hepatitis B viral infection with compensated liver disease.

By a wide margin, Colorado voters approved a measure to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

In the wake of several mass murders with guns, three states passed new gun control laws. The American Medical Association's delegates this summer agreed that gun violence is a public health problem in the US and urged physicians to be activists.

Should porn actors be forced to wear condoms as a public health measure? It's on the ballot in California but both major political parties oppose it.

Do physicians feel voting is a waste of time? They are less likely to go to the polls than the average person, and far less likely to cast ballots than lawyers.

A naloxone nasal spray device widely used in homes and by 911 providers was recalled due to a faulty part that turns the drug into a stream instead of a spray.

Before antibiotics, people went blind from syphilis. They still could, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned today.

In a study of young adults who had confirmed respiratory infections, US military hospital researchers found the women reported more severe and longer lasting illness than the men.

Cefiderocol, a new drug that can attack several multi-drug resistant pathogens, is showing promise.

Are healthcare workers who wear glasses or contacts more likely to get colds and flu? Researchers at Johns Hopkins report on a study with intriguing findings.

Patients with HIV are likely to have other sexually transmitted infections, but routine testing may be too expensive an urban Alabama clinic estimated.

Not only is Brazilian AIDS and infectious disease specialist Mauro Schecter, MD, PhD, an expert in Zika, he was also a patient. In the opening session of IDWeek 2016, he described what that was like.

Noninvasive technology can accurately measure liver stiffness and track progress in liver disease cure.

The threat of Zika virus and state of research surrounding the virus drew standing room crowds at IDWeek 2016.

Concerns that high-risk men on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV would stop using condoms and start getting other sexually transmitted infections have been somewhat validated in a Boston clinic.

Transmitted HIV drug resistance is a growing problem. Researchers found 20% of treat-naive HIV patients in a rural Southern US community had such transmitted drug resistant strains of the virus.

A new drug combo had good results in treatment-naïve women with HIV, researchers reported today at IDWeek 2016 in New Orleans, LA.

Recommendations that children with asthma not get live attenuated flu vaccine may not be necessary, researchers found.

Deaths from measles can come through a complication known as SSPE, and it is more common than thought. It can occur years after measles infection, even in adults.

An experimental biologic for treating drug-resistant HIV showed dramatic results in phase 3 trials, researchers report. It's called ibalizumab.

Researchers calculate that more than 300,000 people in the US are now affected by the parasitic illness Chagas Disease, once limited to Latin and South America.

Antibiotics known to disrupt the microbiome appear to send more patients back to the hospital, CDC researchers found.

In a sign of the growing global problem of drug resistance, researchers from Ohio reported a steady increase in the percentages of cases of gonorrhea that did not respond to the usual antibiotics.

In hospital settings, caregivers’ clothing can harbor dangerous microbes, a study of nurses’ scrubs worn in the intensive care unit has found.

Could the interaction of Zika virus with similar flaviviruses like Dengue and Chikungunya be the reason why Zika virus has turned so virulent after decades of being a minor illness?

Though under lock and key, state prisoners are considered "hard to reach" when it comes to getting them into treatment for hepatitis C. A health Affairs study looked at how states vary in attitudes, practices, and spending.

Georgia researchers have caused microcephaly by infecting chick embryos with Zika virus. The good news is that such infected chicken eggs could be a quick effective place to test therapeutic compounds to halt fetal brain damage.

Using a drug database British Columbia researchers can identify new HIV hotspots by looking at phylogenotypic clusters and watching for any sudden growth. It works to get new cases into treatment, but comes with ethical concerns.

Despair may drive parents of children with chronic illnesses to seek unproven alternative remedies. The British Medical Journal reports on what happened to a 4-year-old with autism.

Primary care clinics could easily offer pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV/AIDS to appropriate patients, a team of Boston, Massachusetts researchers concluded.