Infectious diseases arise from bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites and can spread through contact, contaminated food or water, or weakened immunity. Common types include bacterial infections (e.g., strep…
Cellulitis is a bacterial skin infection causing redness, swelling, and pain, often in the lower legs. Tom Warren, MD, explains it results from bacteria entering compromised skin barriers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients and health care workers (HCWs) with symptomatic nosocomial norovirus (NoV) infection are much more apt to transmit the virus than asymptomatic shedders,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with egg-induced anaphylaxis can safely receive the influenza vaccine, according to findings published in the January 9th Journal of Allergy and Clinical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined pegylated interferon and ribavirin are effective in treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 6 infection, researchers report in a January…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – H1N1 antibody levels remain high in children a year after immunization with a monovalent adjuvanted pandemic swine influenza vaccine, a UK team reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For nosocomial pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), linezolid is more effective and better tolerated than the gold standard vancomycin, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy started 10 days or more after onset of Kawasaki disease (KD) suppresses inflammation but does not prevent coronary artery lesions,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While first-void urine specimens have been used traditionally to test for Chlamydia trachomatis, newer DNA detection methods produce reliable results using midstream specimens,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with HIV infection who are admitted to the hospital with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) face a “substantial” risk of dying in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A pooled analysis of two trials indicates that HIV patients with aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) fare better with a regimen of rituximab…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In populations with low prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection, the majority of positive results on the tuberculin skin test (TST) and the newer…
