Discover a rare case linking cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection to severe immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in a healthy adult. Learn about diagnosis and treatment challenges.

A powerful immunotherapy that targets out-of-control viral infections has saved the lives of dozens of critically-ill ...

Elton John shared his struggle with vision loss due to an eye infection, affecting his ability to watch his new musical.

IDWeek 2024 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 16–19 October. Phoebe Hall ...

[64] evaluated the efficacy of preemptive treatment in preventing symptomatic CMV disease (476 patients). Compared with placebo or standard care, preemptive treatment significantly reduced the ...

As a virologist at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, she knew that researchers around the world were testing virus-based cancer ... the “unconventional” treatment has left her in remission ...

Beata Halassy, an expert infectious disease researcher, treated her own stage 3 breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses. Following this treatment, 50-year-old Beata Halassy has ...

In a bid to avoid more gruelling chemotherapy, Dr Halassy decided to take matters into her own hands with an experimental immunotherapy treatment. Oncolytic virus therapy, or OVT, is an emerging ...

These results suggest that the treatment, named Ad-TD-nsIL12, is safe and could be effective at certain doses. Encouraged by these findings, the researchers are now preparing for Phase II trials.

Thanks to its ability to quickly diagnose an infection, mNGS helps guide management decisions and treatment for patients with meningitis and encephalitis, potentially reducing healthcare costs ...