Testing for tuberculosis has revealed that nearly 40 percent of the doctors in one Russian city have latent infection, with even higher levels in those who work in TB clinics. The research has been published in PLoS Medicine.
In a randomized placebo-controlled trial, patients smoking cannabis experienced a 34 percent reduction in intense foot pain associated with HIV — twice the rate experienced by patients who smoked placebo.
Liu and colleagues studied women who delivered a child between 1991 and 2005 in Canada (excluding Quebec and Manitoba) and report a three-fold rate of severe complications overall among women having a planned cesarean section compared with those who planned a vaginal delivery.
In hospitals today, the first warning that a post-operative patient is going into septic shock is often when the patient’s blood pressure collapses and congestive heart failure begins. By that time the patient has a high probability of dying, or if he survives, an even higher probability of permanent major organ damage after a long stay in an intensive care unit.
NHS Health authorities have announced a plan to reward hospitals for low death and infection rates and few readmissions.
A study by the University of Western Sydney has revealed that recurring middle ear infections in early childhood can have a detrimental impact on language and literacy skill development in later life.
The first draft of the horse genome sequence has been deposited in public databases and is freely available for use by biomedical and veterinary researchers around the globe, leaders of the international Horse Genome Sequencing Project announced.
New York also planning to introduce legislation next week that would require schoolgirls in New York to get hpv vaccine to knock out the virus linked to cervical cancer.
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) today called on UN agencies, major foundations and bilateral aid programs such as PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to immediately increase funding for the procurement and distribution of female condoms in countries heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as funding for programs that raise public awareness of female condoms and provide education on their use.
The absence of a specific marker in the blood and tissues of certain monkeys may be part of the key to understanding how they can be infected for years with SIV, the primate version of HIV, and never develop AIDS, according to research published by Tulane University pathologist Ivona Pandrea in the scientific journal Blood.