Poor treatment of meningitis in kids can lead to tragedies warn experts
Research has shown that bacterial meningitis in infants may not be being diagnosed or acted on quickly enough by medical professionals.
Aug 24, 2017
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Research has shown that bacterial meningitis in infants may not be being diagnosed or acted on quickly enough by medical professionals.
Aug 24, 2017
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Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly invasive fungal infection which affects hundreds of thousands of HIV patients in the late stage of their disease every year.
Jul 25, 2017
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Experts aim to halve the number of deaths from cryptococcal meningitis by changing drug treatment programmes after the results of a new medical trial.
Jul 25, 2017
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It's the height of flu season but not all symptoms of the flu virus point to influenza. Sudden fever and headache also may be symptoms of early meningitis, which often mimics the flu.
Jan 16, 2017
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A campaign targeted at students arriving at university for the first time could hold the key to reducing the spread of meningitis and septicaemia, say researchers at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.
Jan 12, 2017
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have established in mice a way to study potentially life-threatening meningitis caused by Salmonella. Bacterial meningitis happens when bacteria infect the central nervous system ...
Dec 9, 2016
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Six suspected cases of meningitis have been identified in a Syrian town near Damascus that is under siege by government forces, the World Heath Organisation (WHO) said Friday.
Sep 2, 2016
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In a study of children with brain shunts at Children's of Alabama, a University of Alabama at Birmingham investigational biomarker outperformed the current "gold standard" test for detecting bacterial infections in the shunts.
Aug 30, 2016
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Scientists have identified two genes that are switched on only when a child is suffering from a bacterial infection. This could allow doctors to quickly distinguish between a viral or bacterial illness, and identify early ...
Aug 23, 2016
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The world is in the grip of a global crisis that kills the equivalent of the populations of Philadelphia, Kampala or Prague - around 1.6 million each year.
Aug 11, 2016
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