Archive for the ‘Infectious Diseases’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
ICU patients with septic acute kidney injury (AKI) are generally sicker, have a higher burden of illness, a greater risk of mortality and longer stays in hospital than patients with non-septic AKI. The findings, published in the open access journal Critical Care, suggest that septic AKI may represent a unique ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
As part of its global mission of advancing science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has announced that it has signed a collaborative agreement with the renowned Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The agreement paves the way for Karolinska graduates to conduct post-doctoral research in New York and scientists from The ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A 10-state report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed little change in the incidence of some foodborne infections after a period of decline. The findings are from 2007 data reported to the CDC as part of the agency′s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet. ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, Atrius Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have created and tested a set of computer programs that use electronic medical records to help clinicians detect contagious illness and automatically report them to public health departments.The new system, called Electronic ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Scientists in the US have discovered that proteins in alligator blood could be a powerful source of antibiotics for use against superbugs that are resistant to conventional drugs, and for treating serious infections and burns.The discovery was presented at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society currently taking ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
BRAHMS USA, Inc announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its patented Procalcitonin (PCT) Kryptor® test. The automated test will be used in critically ill patients on the first day of ICU admission as an aid to assess their risk for ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
An article published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicinereports on the development and testing of two user-friendly methodsthat use changes in cross-sectional HIV prevalence (the fraction of thepopulation infected with HIV) to estimate HIV incidence (the number ofnew infections occurring during a specific time period). TimothyHallett (Imperial College London) and ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The number of tuberculosis cases among HIV-positive people in Jamaica is steadily increasing, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health released on Wednesday during a symposium at the country's National Chest Hospital, the Jamaica Gleaner reports. Terry Baker, a consultant pulmonologist at the National Chest Hospital, said that ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
"Getting to zero" - the emerging drive to eliminate infections acquired in hospitals - is provoking much discussion in the healthcare community, ranging from concern that the approach is overly simplistic and potentially dangerous to praise that it is a motivating and worthy goal. Healthcare experts will discuss ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Global patterns and mechanistic determinants of bacterial spread in mammalian organisms are difficult to obtain through numerical and topographical mapping of a single bacterial population. Appreciation of the true pathogenetic events during infections needs to be based on the understanding of the fine interactions that control the ...
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