“You can’t fix what you don’t measure” is a maxim in the business world. And it holds true in the
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Low risk of cancer spread on active surveillance for early prostate cancer
Men undergoing active surveillance for prostate cancer have very low rates – one percent or less—of cancer spread (metastases) or
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Comeback of drug-resistant neglected tropical disease tracked through genomic surveillance
Genome sequencing has shed light on the re-emergence of the bacterium that causes yaws, a neglected tropical disease of the
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Direct-to-patient COVID-19 surveillance study launches in Boston
As the number of new cases of COVID-19 begin to increase again in our area and as schools face the
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Data-sharing website may speed the response to new illegal drugs: The ‘NPS Data Hub’ will help forensic chemists identify new types of fentanyl and other narcotics more quickly
The drug overdose epidemic currently gripping the nation is so tenacious in part because it’s being driven by fentanyl, a
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Tax hurts investment in medical device research and development
New research shows companies cut funding for research and development in response to a tax imposed on medical devices as
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Gonorrhoea surveillance study maps antibiotic resistance across Europe
The first European-wide genomic survey of gonorrhoea has mapped antibiotic resistance in this sexually transmitted disease throughout the continent. Researchers
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Black-white disparities in heart disease mortality have increased from 1968-2015 according to MMWR Surveillance Summary
Researchers at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published
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