South African television personality, Derek Watts, recently shared that he was suffering from sepsis and "would basically have to learn to walk again." Sepsis, a life threatening condition, happens when the body has an excessive ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Omisirge (omidubicel-onlv), a substantially modified allogeneic cord blood-based cell therapy, to cut the risk of infection in patients with blood cancer following a myeloablative ...
Apr 24, 2023
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A team of medical researchers at the University of Tübingen's Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research in Germany has found that exposing organoids at a certain stage of growth to interleukin-6 leads to an increase in ...
Metagenomic sequencing can provide rapid and actionable antimicrobial resistance predictions to treat bloodstream infections much faster than conventional laboratory tests, and has the potential to save lives and better manage ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Two-thirds of staff and residents in long-term care facilities for older people across England were infected with COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic, according to new findings from the Vivaldi study being ...
Apr 13, 2023
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Patients recovering from a severe spinal-cord injury can develop an immune deficiency that puts them at risk of developing life-threatening infections, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University ...
Apr 6, 2023
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In the spring of 2022, a pediatric gastroenterologist treating children in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow issued an alert to Public Health Scotland (PHS), warning of an unusual outbreak of hepatitis cases ...
Apr 3, 2023
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I recently began experiencing swelling in my legs, feet and hands, as well as fatigue. Testing led to a diagnosis of pericardial constriction. Can you explain what this is and how it's treated? Is there anything I can do ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Sepsis has a way of flying under the radar. Public awareness of the life-threatening disease is low, and official statistics are misleading. Now researchers are using special alarm systems and AI to increase detection.
Mar 21, 2023
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The magnitude and quality of a key immune cell's response to vaccination with two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were considerably lower in people with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to people without ...
Mar 20, 2023
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