Health
High-dose vitamin D doesn't appear to reduce the winter sniffles for children
Giving children high doses of vitamin D doesn't appear to reduce the winter sniffles, a new study has found.
Jul 18, 2017
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Respiratory Tract Infections
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infections in early life associated with increased risk for celiac disease
Infections during infancy are associated with increased risk for gluten intolerance (celiac disease) later on. Apparently the risk is particularly high in the case of repeated gastrointestinal infections in the first year ...
Jun 20, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Respiratory infections in children often treated unnecessarily with antibiotics
Many childhood virus infections are mistaken for bacterial infection and risk being unnecessarily treated with antibiotics. A new thesis from Karolinska Institutet on respiratory infections in children shows that viruses ...
May 22, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists isolate new antibodies to fight human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Researchers from VIB, UGent, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and several collaborators developed a new antiviral strategy to fight human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a leading cause of lower respiratory tract ...
Feb 13, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bloodstream infections: Most common type of health care-associated infections in children
A study published by The Lancet Infectious Diseases establishes the prevalence and type of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in children in Europe and describes risk factors for infection in this population.
Jan 13, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researcher develops drug to non-invasively diagnose infectious diseases
A professor at The University of New Mexico has developed a new, groundbreaking drug that that could revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
Dec 2, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Almost half of daycare children found to have respiratory virus
Forty-three per cent of children at two daycare centres researchers studied had at least one virus in their respiratory tract.
Nov 28, 2016
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Hospital admissions rising for elderly patients with Parkinson's disease
Although treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) is significantly extending the lives of patients, these patients are now being admitted to hospitals at increasing rates. In a study reported in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Pediatrics
Infants in Northern Canada face the highest rates of respiratory infection in the world
Infants in Canada's north are facing alarming rates of respiratory infection, but providing an antibody to all infants will prevent hundreds of hospitalizations of babies in the Arctic and save hundreds of thousands of dollars ...
Oct 18, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Preserving the power of antibiotics
Of the 10 million prescriptions for antibiotics that emergency department physicians in the U.S. write each year, many are prescribed for known viral infections such as acute bronchitis and upper respiratory infections, which ...
Oct 6, 2016
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