infectious diseases

Flu season is ramping up, folks. Cases are already “high” in certain parts of the US, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Southern regions are being hit the hardest right now, but influenza is…

The US 2022 midterm elections are rapidly approaching, and it’s hard to overstate how much is at stake: We are, once again, voting like our lives depend on it. While I’m trying to be optimistic (in part because the 2018 US midterms had the…

Either way, many experts aren’t happy about the CDC’s shift. “Doctors and other health care workers have an obligation to keep patients safe,” Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MPH, the dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health in New Jersey, tells…

Keep in mind, too, that norovirus cases are only expected to go up from here. “Kids are back in school,” which always boosts the risks of germs spreading, Richard Watkins, MD, an infectious disease physician and professor of internal…