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Treatment of Syphilis With Doxycycline in a Pregnant Woman Unable to Be Desensitized to Penicillin
A pregnant woman with a non–IgE-mediated penicillin allergy was treated for syphilis with doxycycline with resolution of infection and no evidence of adverse outcome for mother or infant.
Source: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - April 24, 2022 Category: Sexual Medicine Tags: Notes Source Type: research
That & #039;s a First: FDA Tackles STDs, Zika, and Prosthetic Joint Infection
The U.S. diagnostic market celebrated three regulatory firsts last week.Â
1. FDA Authorizes Marketing of First Zika Test
Until now, tests for detecting Zika virus immunoglobulin (IgM) antibodies in blood were only authorized for emergency use under FDA's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority. On Thursday, the agency said it has authorized marketing of the ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA under the agency's traditional premarket authority. The test is manufactured by InBios International.
“At the onset of the Zika virus outbreak, when little was known about the disease or how...
Source: MDDI - May 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Regulatory and Compliance IVD Source Type: news
Scientists Start Second Phase Of Zika Vaccine Testing
Researchers at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine last week began Phase 2 clinical trials for a Zika vaccine that is expected to have results as early as the end of this year.
Andrew Pekosz, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, praised the vaccine’s potential to prevent disease, as well as how quickly clinical trials have taken place.
“It’s really been a light-speed endeavor,” Pekosz, who was not involved in the vaccine’s testing or development at the National Institute for Allergy and In...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 3, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change
Conclusion: Going beyond the powerful scientific and economic arguments for urgent action to reduce the burning of fossil fuels is the strong moral imperative to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Citation: Perera FP. 2017. Multiple threats to child health from fossil fuel combustion: impacts of air pollution and climate change. Environ Health Perspect 125:141–148; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP299
Address correspondence to F.P. Perera, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th St. 12th flo...
Source: EHP Research - February 1, 2017 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Commentaries Children's Health February 2017 Source Type: research
Health Official Warns Zika Could Spread Across U.S. Gulf
Aug 21 (Reuters) - One of the top U.S. public health officials on Sunday warned that the mosquito-borne Zika virus could extend its reach across the U.S. Gulf Coast after officials last week confirmed it as active in the popular tourist destination of Miami Beach.
The possibility of transmission in Gulf States such as Louisiana and Texas will likely fuel concerns that the virus, which has been shown to cause the severe birth defect known as microcephaly, could spread across the continental United States, even though officials have played down such an outcome.
Concern has mounted since confirmation that Zika has expanded in...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why So Many Young Women Love The 'Pull-Out Method'
In many ways, 2016 is an exceptionally good time to be a woman in need of birth control. The IUD, a method that works more than 99 percent of the time, is more popular than ever; birth control is covered under the Affordable Care Act; and in a few states, pharmacists can now give women a full year's worth of the pill without a doctor's prescription. Women's access to a range of reliable contraceptive options is arguably the best it's ever been.
Why, then, do many straight women still turn to the "pull-out method," the world's oldest, most rudimentary form of birth control?
Estimates suggest that n...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Management of Gonorrhea in Adolescents and Adults in the United States
This article summarizes the key questions and data that were discussed at the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Treatment Guidelines Expert Consultation meeting in April 2013, and the rationale for the 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention STD treatment guidelines for gonococcal infections in adolescents and adults. Key issues addressed include whether to change the dosage of ceftriaxone and azithromycin used in the recommended dual treatment regimen, whether to continue to list dual treatment with cefixime and azithromycin as an alternative treatment regimen, and management of gonococcal infections in persons ...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases - November 24, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kidd, S., Workowski, K. A. Tags: EVIDENCE PAPERS FOR THE CDC SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES TREATMENT GUIDELINES Source Type: research
Automatic Identification of Web-Based Risk Markers for Health Events
Conclusions: Web-based methods provide a powerful, low-cost approach to automatically identify risk factors, and support more timely and personalized public health efforts to bring human and economic benefits.
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - January 27, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Elad Yom-TovDiana BorsaAndrew C HaywardRachel A McKendryIngemar J Cox Source Type: research
Sending your kid to college? Think about their health too.
For families that are sending their teens to college this fall, summer is full of anticipation and planning. There’s so much to buy and pack and think about that sometimes parents forget to think about something really important: their health.
As parents, we are in charge of our child’s health—their diet, their exercise, their medications and what happens when they get sick. But when teens leave home, we need to be sure they can handle these things, and make good decisions, by themselves. Not that we can’t help out. I get lots of phone calls from my college-aged kids about health stuff, but it’s different when ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - July 25, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Claire McCarthy Tags: Claire McCarthy, MD Health & wellness Parenting Source Type: news
Americans Sicker Compared To Other Wealthy Nations
This report shows where the differences and disparities exist and who bears the greatest burden, but they don’t tell us why these differences exist,” she says.
SOURCES:National Research Council and Institute of Medicine report: “U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.”Jacqueline Moline, MD, vice president, population health, North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, N.Y.Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, professor, family medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.Ana V. Diez-Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, professor and chair, epidemiology; director...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mreal197 Tags: WebMD News Source Type: news
