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) – In children with bacterial meningitis, age and presenting neurologic status are the most important predictors of hearing loss, and neither dexamethasone nor glycerol…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Prove-it sepsis assay (Mobidiag, Helsinki, Finland) is highly sensitive and specific in identifying bacterial species in blood samples and provides much faster…
Jennifer Daru, MD, Chief of Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, speaking here at the 2009 Pediatric Hospitalist Conference in Tampa, Fla,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The initial empiric antimicrobial therapy used to treat septic shock may be the most important determinant of whether a patient will survive to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that tenofovir 300 mg-emtricitabine 200 mg (TDF-FTC) is comparable to abacavir 600 mg-lamivudine 300 mg (ABC-3TC) in anti-HIV efficacy but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using hypertonic saline with nebulized epinephrine instead of normal saline does not improve the clinical outcomes of infants in the ER with mild…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a follow-up study of Alaska Natives who received plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine when they were more than 6 months old, a large…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term treatment with low-dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is modestly effective in preventing urinary tract infections (UTI) in predisposed children, according to a report in The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prophylactic use of acetaminophen during vaccination in children can reduce febrile reactions, but unfortunately the antibody responses to various vaccine antigens are weakened,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether the catheter is removed or not has no bearing on the resolution of catheter-related coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia following treatment with antimicrobial therapy,…
