What Will It Take to Get Pregnant Women Vaccinated?
(MedPage Today) -- I'll never forget the day I witnessed my first stillborn birth.
In the 1970s, before starting medical school, I spent 6 weeks at a rural sickbay in Haiti. Despite its meager resources and daily heartbreaks, I quickly gained... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Fecal Transplants in Kidney Recipients Reduced Resistant Pathogens
(MedPage Today) -- In the single-center PREMIX clinical trial, most renal transplant recipients were negative for multidrug-resistant pathogens shortly after receiving fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), with longer times to recurrent infections... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Situs Inversus Cases Rise After China Lifts Zero-COVID Policy
(MedPage Today) -- There was a "striking increase" in the number of cases of fetal situs inversus at two Chinese obstetric centers after the zero-COVID policies were lifted in the country, researchers reported.
From January through July of this... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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What to Know About the JN.1 Variant
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While the BA.2.86 or "Pirola" variant of SARS-CoV-2 never took off in the U.S., some researchers are now eyeing its descendant, JN.1, which may be more immune-evasive.
JN.1 has yet to appear on the CDC's... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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COVID Upended Bronchiolitis Admission Patterns in Kids
(MedPage Today) -- Pediatric bronchiolitis hospitalizations took a brief downturn during the pandemic before consistently rising thereafter, with seasonal patterns yet to return to normal, a nationwide study found.
After admissions plummeted by... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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CDC Panel Backs Broader Use of Mpox Vaccine
(MedPage Today) -- The CDC's vaccine advisors on Wednesday endorsed the use of the mpox vaccine for high-risk adults even after the outbreak, along with a newly approved pentavalent meningococcal vaccine for adolescents and younger adults.
Broader... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Inhaled Antibiotic Cuts Risk of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
(MedPage Today) -- A short course of an inhaled antibiotic helped prevent the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit (ICU), a randomized trial in France showed.
In critically ill patients intubated for between... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Vitamin C Flops for Severe COVID-19
(MedPage Today) -- Intravenous vitamin C did little to increase days free of organ support in adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19, two harmonized clinical trials known as LOVIT-COVID and REMAP-CAP found.
Among critically ill patients given... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Convalescent Plasma Improves Survival in COVID Patients With ARDS, New Trial Shows
(MedPage Today) -- Convalescent plasma reduced mortality in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) when provided within 5 days of invasive mechanical ventilation, the randomized open-label CONFIDENT trial showed.
Mortality... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 25, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Tropical Parasite May Be Endemic in Texas
(MedPage Today) -- A parasitic disease that can cause skin ulcers and is usually spread by the tiny sandfly may now be endemic to the U.S., preliminary findings from CDC researchers suggested.
Genetic sequencing of 2,235 U.S. cutaneous leishmaniasis... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
COVID Vax During Pregnancy Linked to Lower Risk of Poor Neonatal Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- Maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lower risks of poor neonatal outcomes, including neonatal death, according to a population-based retrospective cohort study from Canada.
Compared with infants... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Fancy Nasal Suction Device Makes Little Difference in Infant Bronchiolitis
(MedPage Today) -- Babies discharged from the emergency department (ED) for bronchiolitis saw mixed benefits from enhanced nasal suctioning, a randomized trial found.
Additional resource use -- a composite of unscheduled revisits for bronchiolitis... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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Paxlovid Priced at $1,390! Snoozing the Alarm and Health; Medical Aid Heads to Gaza
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Pfizer is jacking up the list price of its COVID antiviral nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) to $1,390 when it moves to commercial sales. (Reuters)
Speaking of... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 19, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Beefed-Up Antibiotic Prophylaxis No Help for Post-Arthroplasty Infections
(MedPage Today) -- Adding vancomycin to beta-lactam prophylaxis with cefazolin did not help prevent surgical-site infections in patients undergoing arthroplasty mostly for the knees or hips, a randomized trial showed.
In over 4,000 patients without... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
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What to Know About the HV.1 Variant
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Yet again, there's a new COVID variant on the scene, but experts say there's no cause for concern.
For the 2-week period ending October 14, the CDC projects that the HV.1 variant will account for nearly 20... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
