Navigating Chronic Cough in Primary Care Navigating Chronic Cough in Primary Care
"When it comes to chronic cough, general practitioners often feel lost."Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news
What Are Common Vascular Rings and Slings?
Discussion
Vascular rings and slings are not that common a congenital heart problem (about 1% of all congenital heart defects), but do occur and arise from abnormal embryological development of the major vascular structures.
Embryologically the great vessels and their major branches arise from the aortic sac.
The aortic sac forms two horns – a right and a left. These horns then form aortic arches.
The aortic arches with their paired branches then course into the pharyngeal arches.
Initially these aortic/pharyngeal arches have symmetric vascular pairs, but as development progresses they become asymmetric (basically du...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - September 11, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Cipla to acquire South Africa-based Actor Pharma
Actor was founded in 2009 and has quickly grown to become the fifth largest privately owned OTC player in the South African market. Actor specialises in OTC and generic medicine, where they have established strong consumer brands and identified niche prescription markets in categories of women's health, nasal, cough and cold and baby and child. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - September 5, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
CPAP Device for Sleep Apnea Might Also Ease Chronic Cough, Heartburn
FRIDAY, Sept. 1, 2023 -- A continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine can relieve not only sleep apnea but the heartburn and chronic cough that often accompanies it, a new study finds.
People who suffer from sleep apnea are three times more... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy 'Widens Immunity Gaps, Increases Risk of Outbreaks'
[allAfrica] In 1999, Grade 5 brought for me a revelation like no other - vaccines! The idea that weak disease-causing organisms could transform our bodies into warriors against killer diseases was nothing short of miraculous. From the top of my head I remember that some of the killer diseases were polio, diptheria, measles, whooping cough, tetanus and tuberculosis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 29, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Science and Biotechnology Sustainable Development Source Type: news
European Commission approves Roche ’s Evrysdi for babies under two months old with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
Evrysdi available to treat people of all ages with SMA in the European Union, including babies from birth1Approval is based on interim data from ongoing RAINBOWFISH trial showing majority ofEvrysdi-treated babies were able to stand and walk within timeframes typical of healthy babies by 12 months ’ treatment2,3Evrysdi is the only non-invasive SMA therapy and is approved in 100 countries with more than 11,000 patients treated globallyBasel, 29 August 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the European Commission has approved the extension of the Evrysdi ® (risdiplam) European Union (EU) marketing ...
Source: Roche Media News - August 29, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
European Commission approves Roche ’s Evrysdi for babies under two months old with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
Evrysdi available to treat people of all ages with SMA in the European Union, including babies from birth1Approval is based on interim data from ongoing RAINBOWFISH trial showing majority ofEvrysdi-treated babies were able to stand and walk within timeframes typical of healthy babies by 12 months ’ treatment2,3Evrysdi is the only non-invasive SMA therapy and is approved in 100 countries with more than 11,000 patients treated globallyBasel, 29 August 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the European Commission has approved the extension of the Evrysdi ® (risdiplam) European Union (EU) marketing ...
Source: Roche Investor Update - August 29, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
How a visit to a GP 'with a bit of a cough' led to a CANCER diagnosis: 'My lovely elder brother was just 26 when he died of blood cancer, so the mention of it filled me with anxiety,' writes ALEX BRUMMER
ALEX BRUMMER: The word 'incidental', under most circumstances, does not signify anything of importance. However, I now know differently. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Preventing measles outbreaks in the US through vaccination
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists India as the top country for measles outbreaks, with more than 57,500 reported cases. In the U.S., there have been 19 cases of the highly infectious virus this year. "Measles is a viral infection that is highly contagious if you're not immune to it," says Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases physician with the Mayo Clinic Children's Center. "It ’s generally characterized by fever, cough, runny nose and a pretty characteristic rash that… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - August 25, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Kenya: Kenya's Innovative Injectable-Free Regimen Transforming TB Care
[Nigeria Health Watch] Augustus Omondi suffered a persistent cough and intense night sweats that lasted for almost one month in late 2018. However, it was the significant weight loss that alarmed him. He was afraid that he might have contracted HIV/AIDS. "Even after several visits to the hospital, I was getting worse. After several tests, health providers at Mama Lucy Hospital in Nairobi said I had drug-resistant TB. It was the second time I was testing positive for TB, but this time it was much more serious." Omondi was put on (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 22, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Tuberculosis Source Type: news
Maiden Pharmaceuticals: Fury in The Gambia over India cough syrup deaths
Grieving parents say regulators in both India and The Gambia failed their young children. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
' Dramatic' Husky With Kennel Cough Leaves Internet in Hysterics
A dog owner has delighted viewers online after sharing a social media video of her "dramatic" husky, who had been coughing in an animated way while fighting off kennel cough. The viral video, which has been viewed more than 358,000 times since it was first shared to TikTok on July 24, captured the…#tiktok #sophiacasola #tiktokers #casola #americankennelclub #akc #kevinfitzgerald #dvm #akcfamilydog (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Signs of lymphoma cancer to be aware of - from a cough to extreme tiredness
In some cases patients will not experience any symptoms, meaning the disease can go undiagnosed. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Ministry says drug factories in India lack professionally qualified employees, raw product testing
These reports come after multiple Indian pharmaceutical companies came under the government's scanner following deaths linked to faulty cough syrup manufactured in the country and shipped overseas. Faulty medicines were linked to the deaths of at least 95 children overseas (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - August 2, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
India finds lapses at cough syrup maker linked to Cameroon deaths
India has found violations related to manufacturing and laboratory practices at drugmaker Riemann Labs, whose cough syrup was linked to child deaths in Cameroon, a government health official told Reuters on Wednesday. Riemann Labs is the fourth Indian cough syrup maker to stop production after regulators found lapses. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - August 2, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
