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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Respiratory Tract Infections
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Recommending oral probiotics doesn't cut antibiotic use
(HealthDay)—Advising patients with asthma to take probiotics does not reduce antibiotic use, according to a study published in the September/October issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
Sep 16, 2016
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Medications
Decision-making tool may help doctors cut unnecessary antibiotic prescribing
Respiratory tract infections (RTI) with cough are the most common reason children are prescribed antibiotics by their doctors, but up to a third of prescriptions may be unnecessary. A new study of over 8000 children has identified ...
Sep 1, 2016
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Immunology
Asthma risk increases when child had bronchiolitis
Results of a study published in PLOS ONE show that asthma risk increased 17 times when children who had bronchiolitis in the first two years of life also had a common variation of the Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) ...
Aug 24, 2016
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Medications
Idelalisib in second-line treatment for CLL: Added benefit again not proven
Already in 2014, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) examined in an early benefit assessment whether idelalisib offers advantages over the appropriate comparator therapy for patients with ...
Jul 6, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study investigates whether it is safe for GPs to prescribe fewer antibiotics
A new study has found that reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections - such as coughs, colds, sore throats and ear infections - is not linked to an increase in the most serious bacterial complications, ...
Jul 4, 2016
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Diabetes
Recurrent viral respiratory tract infections during first six months and risk of T1 diabetes
In a study appearing in the May 3, 2016 issue of JAMA, Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, M.D., of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Munich, Germany, and colleagues examined associations between infection types during the first 2 years of ...
May 3, 2016
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