Stephen Feller

Cuts to U.S. foreign aid will endanger HIV treatment and prevention services globally and are likely to reverse decades of progress against the virus, researchers said this week.

The U.S. Senate has opened debate on a $9 billion rescission bill to claw back foreign aid and other funding not aligned with Trump administration priorities, but will apparently leave one critical public health program alone.Republican senators voted to amend the bill to remove a proposed $400 million cut to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which had been caught up in

HHS announced on Wednesday that it has adopted a recommendation from a CDC committee to remove thimerosal from all influenza vaccines.

Healio received an APEX award for a 2024 report on the cloudy future of HIV vaccine research in the age of long-acting injectable medications that can protect people from the virus for months at a time.

A controversial hematologist-oncologist who joined FDA this spring and quickly became its top regulator has left the agency.HHS confirmed the departure of Vinay K. Prasad, MD, MPH, providing the following statement to Healio: “Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with

HHS has barred several professional medical organizations from participating as outside liaisons to the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee.

Clinical management of aspergillosis has become more challenging as Aspergillus fumigatus develops increasing resistance to azoles, the antifungals primarily used to treat the infection, according to a review.

The first human case of New World screwworm infestation in the United States has been confirmed in a Maryland resident who returned from travel in Central America, according to health officials.

The FDA on Tuesday accepted a new drug application from Shionogi to market ensitrelvir, an oral antiviral, as post-exposure prophylaxis for COVID-19, the company announced.

An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has doubled in size and spread in the province where it started, raising fears of cross-border spillover into neighboring Angola, a health official said.