46 minutes ago COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–The American Red Cross is in urgent need of donations and is asking for your help.The Red Cross says it is facing a shortage due to fewer donors than needed over the summer.The Red Cross says distribution to hospitals and medical centers is now far outpacing donations being made.Emergency supplies […]
Leading international infection control practitioner and Founder of the new Surgical Site Infection Prevention Society, a global surgical site infection (SSI) prevention group, Lilian Chiwera* is passionately working towards raising the profile of SSI globally and improving patient safety. Here, she reflects on the progress so far and the path forward. A lot has changed […]
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This month marks the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. And with it, comes not only the destruction of Mother Nature, but the potential aftermath of contamination of food and water that can lead to bacterial infections. photo credit: Kelly, Pexels According to the National Hurricane Center, September 10 marks the peak of the Atlantic […]
If your doctor told you six of your body’s nine vital signs were failing, you’d be scurrying to purchase the closest gym membership you can find. Heck, you’d probably start taking reparatory measures even if the doctor told you just one of your vitals was suffering. Advertisement We tend to somehow always lose sight of […]
It’s “pivotal” the Boston Celtics resolve their bad blood with nearly-traded veteran floor general, and the league’s reigning Sixth Man of the Year, Malcolm Brogdon, before the start of the season according to NESN’s Gio Rivera; who believes it must be done following Brogdon’s pulled involvement in a Kristaps Porzingis trade. “It’s unknown how much […]
Dr. Robbie Goldstein donated blood two weeks ago for the first time in his life. On Thursday, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld did the same. Both have devoted their lives to medicine and public service. But until recently Goldstein, the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Ehrenfeld, the president of the American Medical Association, […]
Kevin Slater had been in and out of hospital with unexplained symptoms including rapid weight loss and acid reflux for three months by March 1983, when his doctor started to suspect he could be suffering from a new illness called acquired immunodeficiency disorder, or Aids, which had emerged in America two years earlier and was […]
Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire, founded in 1907 for the education and care of physically disabled children, was more than just a school. When Ade Goodyear was there in the early 1980s, the teaching and medical staff seemed like an extended family. Dr Anthony Aronstam, director of the college’s haemophilia centre – the condition […]
A mum whose fingers and feet went black after eating undercooked fish has tragically lost all four of her limbs. Laura Barajas, from California, contracted a bacterial infection from undercooking Tilapia fish in late July after purchasing the fish at a local market in San Jose. On Thursday, she was forced to undergo a life-saving […]