Pediatrics
Kids, don't touch the toys at the doctor's office
(HealthDay)—Avoid the stuffed animals at your pediatrician's office. Or better yet, take your own playthings when your child has a doctor's appointment.
Oct 23, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists support African drug resistance fight
Edinburgh researchers have contributed to a Zimbabwean initiative to tackle the threat of growing resistance to antibiotics.
Oct 2, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Superbug's spread to Vietnam threatens malaria control
A highly drug resistant malaria 'superbug' from western Cambodia is now present in southern Vietnam, leading to alarming failure rates for dihydroartemisinin (DHA)-piperaquine—Vietnam's national first-line malaria treatment, ...
Sep 21, 2017
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Drug-resistant infections are a 'global health emergency': WHO
Resistance to antibiotic drugs is a "global health emergency" that threatens the progress made by modern medicine, the head of the UN's health agency warned as a new report was published Wednesday.
Sep 20, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists discover how tuberculosis hijacks the immune system
Scientists have unlocked a key element in understanding how human lungs fight tuberculosis (TB). They hope their research findings, which were published today in the international peer reviewed journal Immunity, will help ...
Aug 24, 2017
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New antibiotic class found effective against gonorrhea in the laboratory
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 700,000 people around the world die annually from drug resistant infections. It also listed drug resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the Neisseria ...
Aug 7, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers developing new tool to distinguish between viral, bacterial infections
Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, but overuse is leading to one of the world's most pressing health threats: antibiotic resistance. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are developing a tool to help physicians ...
Jul 28, 2017
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HIV & AIDS
Girl's HIV infection seems under control without AIDS drugs
A South African girl born with the AIDS virus has kept her infection suppressed for more than eight years after stopping anti-HIV medicines—more evidence that early treatment can occasionally cause a long remission that, ...
Jul 24, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Omega-3 fatty acids can neutralize listeria
Certain fatty acids are not only part of a healthy diet—they can also neutralise the harmful listeria bacterium, a new study shows. This discovery could eventually lead to improved methods to combat dangerous and drug-resistant ...
May 23, 2017
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Drug-resistant bacteria in patients' urine or stools raise risk of drug-resistant sepsis
People who have recently been found to have drug-resistant bacteria in their urine or stool samples have a greatly increased risk of developing a bloodstream infection that is also resistant to certain antibiotics, according ...
Apr 23, 2017
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