What to Know About New Tools to Fight RSV
The tide may be turning on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a seasonal scourge that’s responsible for a substantial number of hospitalizations and deaths among older people and young children each year. In the span of just a few months, the FDA has approved two vaccines and a monoclonal antibody for use in specific populations with […]
Opinion | Cholera Returns With a Vengeance
It has been a bad year for cholera, the fecally transmitted scourge once depicted as a supernatural reaper wielding a giant scythe. When the artwork above, “Le Choléra,” first appeared in 1912, cholera’s pathophysiology was still a mystery, but its clinical wrath wasn’t. By then, it was public knowledge that cholera could sometimes transform a […]