The Japanese government has come under criticism for silently slashing its funding to about half of what it pledged in 2022 ...

World leaders are now advancing the idea of a treaty to better prepare for the next pandemic. However, a treaty between states would not cure the myriad inefficiencies revealed by the response to ...

Drexel Dornsife's Infectious Disease Prevention and Control program covers the major risks for infection in health care settings, surveillance and prevention strategies for health care-associated ...

A new model to analyse infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and control. A new model to analyse infectious disease ...

The city Health Department is looking at how to preserve its “core” functions as it enters an expected federal funding downturn five years after the pandemic and new threats to support from Washington ...

Africa carries a disproportionately high burden of infectious diseases which significantly contribute to morbidity, mortality ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare, and its impact on infectious disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is drawing growing attention. A new series in The Lancet ...

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented demand for germicidal ultraviolet (UV) light irradiation equipment, marking a turning point for an underutilized technology for ...

Physical distancing policies and particularly stay-at-home work mandates have proven highly effective at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus. But these measures have had numerous unwanted ...

The CDC's new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics will only be as effective as the data it receives. Analyzing the data is just the first step. Leaders have relied on data-driven weather ...