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The mysterious sudden deaths of apparently healthy people, some young and engaged in sports, could be explained by mutations uncovered by a Canada research team.

Being able to perform CPR matters a lot when it comes to saving children who experience a sudden out-of-hospital arrest.

The American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2016 gets underway in New Orleans, LA, this weekend. Here are some studies to watch for.

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.

Michelle Doll, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, discussed her recent work in assessing the association between regular dental check ups and decreased risk of getting pneumonia.

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.

Mark Mulligan, MD explained that Zika needs better diagnostic tests, which he knows can take some time, but is hopeful something will come along in a reasonable time frame.

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.

At IDWeek 2016, Mark Mulligan, MD, Hope Clinic at Emory Vaccine Center discussed his team's recent projects studying the natural history of Zika infection and their Zika vaccine trial.

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.

At IDWeek 2016, Mark Murphy, DO, Advocate Children's discussed his team's quality improvement project to improve the HPV vaccine completion rates in pediatric patients, which is an "ongoing national issue".

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.

Jason Roberts, The University of Queensland, Australia, has observed "suboptimal outcomes" in patients whereby they end up failing treatments or even need relatively long courses of treatment, which he attributes to the idea that healthcare professionals aren't using the right doses of antibiotics.

"The disturbing fact is that unvaccinated children who get measles run the risk of these [SSPE] complications."

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) has thought be a rare complication of measles, explained Jim Cherry, MD, UCLA, at IDWeek 2016. What was once a considered a rare form, was later found, through much research, to be more common.

Amesh Adalja, MD, UPMC Center for National Security and his colleagues study recent outbreaks and work on how to better prepare the country for outbreaks like this in the future.

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?

The treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration has come a long way in a short period of time. While it may take some explaining that injections in the eye are the best way to treat the condition now there is work being done to find better ways for the future.

If patients with the wet form of wet age-related macular degeneration are caught early enough there are treatments available to help treat the condition.

Space flight has changed dramatically from the days of the Mercury and Apollo programs. With an eye towards Mars research is being done to see what impact long-term flights will have on a person's body.