The Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Defense Department Senate and House conference agreement released Thursday demonstrates legislators' commitment to tackling some of the most critical health issues our nation faces.
The Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Defense Department Senate and House conference agreement released Thursday demonstrates legislators' commitment to tackling some of the most critical health issues our nation faces.
The decision by Nostrum Laboratories executives to more than quadruple the price of an antibiotic drug developed more than six decades ago reflects opportunistic greed in its most indefensible form.
As the hurricane season reaches its peak, and Hurricane Florence brings threats of catastrophic weather events and flooding to the eastern United States, preparation and sustained responses will be essential to prevent and the respond to public health and infectious disease impacts that pose risks in a storm’s aftermath.
As the largest and oldest professional society of physicians, scientists and other health care professionals who specialize in transmitted diseases, the Infectious Diseases Society of America is deeply concerned about the ongoing impacts of climate change on epidemiologic patterns and public health in the United States and worldwide.
As thousands of physicians, including those providing infectious diseases and HIV care, cited damaging impacts of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal to slash reimbursements for evaluation and management of complex cases, lawmakers are signing onto a letter asking the agency to delay action on the move.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the nation’s leading infectious diseases professional society, recognizes the distinguished physicians and scientists from the United States and around the world who were elected this year to be Fellows of IDSA.
Improved compensation, expanded mentorship and training opportunities, and concrete measures to improve workforce diversity are all needed to address attrition from the ranks of physician scientists specializing in infectious diseases...
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) announced today the recipients of its Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence (CoE) designation.
Obese adults shed influenza A virus for a longer time than adults who were not obese, according to a new JID study.
Ensuring that Medicare physician reimbursement promotes quality care was a key topic of today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee hearing.
With a key provision supporting the development of a trained and ready public health workforce, and new efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance, the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act reauthorization bill approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday addresses issues that are essential to ensuring we have the resources and capacities we will need to confront emerging threats to public health.
Today the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released Integrating Responses at the Intersection of Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Epidemics, a report documenting the proceedings of a two-day meeting of public health, drug policy and law enforcement experts, including leaders of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association.