Archive for the ‘Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses’ Category
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
The antiviral drug, valganciclovir, can lower the levels of Epstein-Barr virus in children with liver transplants, according to a new study. About half of young transplant recipients with detectable levels of the virus in their blood responded to a long course of the therapy, with 60 percent maintaining their response ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday released details of a draft of a second economic stimulus package that includes some provisions related to health care, CongressDaily reports (Sanchez, CongressDaily, 7/31). Among other provisions, the package includes:$570 million for nutrition programs;$792 million in loans and grants for rural community facilities, ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
In keeping with the Government's commitment to food safety, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is taking precautionary actions to prevent the implicated source of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak in the United States (U.S.) from entering Canada. Specifically, shipments of jalape?o and Serrano peppers from Mexico are being held ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Laboratory testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that both a sample of serrano pepper and a sample of irrigation water collected by agency investigators on a farm in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, contain Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint as the strain of ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Strong leadership, appropriate staffing levels and better management of staff workloads should be just as important as hand hygiene and environmental cleanliness in the battle to reduce healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), such as MRSA and C difficile. That is the key finding of Hospital Organisation and Management Factors in Infection ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Hospital patients with rare types of meningitis, including fungal and parasitic meningitis, are 15 times more likely to die than patients hospitalized with viral meningitis, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Among hospitalizations in 2007, according to AHRQ's new analysis, the ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
AACC Annual Meeting - Seegene's Seeplex(R) Sepsis multi-pathogen screening test introduced today at the 2008 Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) brings a novel and fast-acting diagnostic technique for hospitals to simultaneously verify a complex range of targets that indicate sepsis, ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Tuomas Jartti (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) and his teamexamined detailed viral aetiologies of recurrent moderate-to-severe respiratory illnesses in 27 infants from families with allergies orasthma. The demographic and clinical data of these recurrently ill infants were compared with 258 children with fewer illnesses. This is the first long-term prospective ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
The Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health, launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight chronic diseases in developing nations. The program is intended to build research capacity in cancer, stroke, lung disease, environmental factors, ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure.While shunts do their job well, the rate of shunt infection in children is very high for a variety of reasons, which requires putting the child ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
WHO has been notified by the Government of the Netherlands of a case of Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) in a Dutch tourist who visited Uganda. Marburg virus infection has been demonstrated by laboratory tests performed by the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg, Germany. The 40-year-old woman travelled in Uganda from ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The Health Protection Agency has today published its latest quarterly figures on MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bloodstream infections and C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections. These relate to the January to March 2008 period, the final quarter in the 2007/2008 financial calendar, providing annual figures for both infections. MRSAThe latest figures ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The Health Protection Agency is a contributor to two research consortia who have been granted a total of ￡9million by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) to carry out crucial research into microbiology and infectious diseases. The two consortia are based in London and Oxford. The Oxford consortium comprises the ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Commenting on the figures, Nigel Edwards, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said: "These figures show that the NHS has made good progress in reducing healthcare acquired infection rates over the last year, with significant reductions in the prevalence of both MRSA and C. diff." "There is still more ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Up to a million lives in Nigeria could be saved as a result of a new ￡50m project to tackle malaria announced by International Development Minister, Gillian Merron.The aid will help provide up to four million mosquito bed nets and ten million anti-malaria drug treatments alongside a wide-range of additional ...
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