Archive: 18/11/2013
Antibiotics – friend and foe?
European Antibiotic Awareness Day is marked on the 18th November every year. This year in Norway, a seminar for health care providers about antibiotic use and resistance will be held, as well as several local events around ...
Nov 18, 2013
Sore throat: Is it strep or something else?
It's a common complaint, "Mom, my throat hurts." The quandary for many parents is why does it hurt? Is it a virus or something more? For some infections, like strep throat, that question can be difficult to determine without ...
Nov 18, 2013
Untreated HIV carriers transmit resistant viruses
Around one in every ten newly infected HIV carriers in Switzerland has viruses that are resistant to at least one of the three classes of drugs used to treat AIDS. Contrary to previously held assumptions, resistant viruses ...
Nov 18, 2013
Study explains why drug may help more cancer patients
(Medical Xpress)—Recently some intriguing data has suggested that breast cancer patients whose tumors appear insensitive to a class of drugs known as anti-HER2 medications (the drug trastuzumab, marketed as Herceptin, is ...
Nov 18, 2013
Caesarean delivery doesn't lower risk of cerebral palsy
(Medical Xpress)—Caesarean deliveries do not prevent children from developing cerebral palsy, despite long-held medical and community beliefs about the causes of cerebral palsy, according to new research led by the University ...
Nov 18, 2013