Monthly Archives: September 2023

Congenital disorders

European Medicines Agency recommends new restrictions on Topiramate in pregnancy

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14
Sep

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) in a recent press release, has recommended new measures designed to avoid topiramate use for pregnant women. Topiramate‑containing medicines are used in the EU for the treatment of epilepsy and prevention of migraine. In some EU countries, the medicine is also used in combination with […]

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Infection

E. coli outbreak involving daycare centers tops 300 patients; kitchen remains under scrutiny

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14
Sep

The patient count in Canada’s daycare center E. Coli outbreak now stands at 310 lab-confirmed cases and public health officials are doubling down on their determination that a central kitchen serving the centers was the source of the pathogen. Only 18 secondary infections — person-to-person infection rather than infection from the original source — have […]

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Infection

The microbiome: a benign infection to help keep disease at bay

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Receive free Medical science updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Medical science news every morning. A generation or two ago, most people regarded all bacteria as harmful “germs” and would be horrified to know that vast numbers lived inside them. Today, after one of the biggest changes in […]

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Infection

In charts: Threat from infectious diseases eases across the world

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14
Sep

Receive free Disease control and prevention updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Disease control and prevention news every morning. Coronavirus brought the global threat of infectious diseases into sharp focus, but the broader picture is a positive one. Communicable diseases, like malaria and tuberculosis, made up almost a […]

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Infection

Rise in fungal infections illustrates risks of antimicrobial resistance

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Receive free Antibiotic resistance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Antibiotic resistance news every morning. Silvia Corcione had a nagging suspicion about a patient who kept on developing fevers, no matter what therapies her infectious-disease team administered. “We knew he was infected with Candida [a fungus], but we […]

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Infection

Long COVID risk found to be significantly lower following Omicron infection

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14
Sep

The risk of developing long COVID is significantly lower following an infection with the Omicron variant than after an infection with earlier coronavirus variants. This was the finding of a study by University Medicine Halle, which was published in the “International Journal of Infectious Diseases”. The analysis looked at information gathered from 11,000 people about […]

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Cardiovascular

Eli Lilly: A Potential Game Changer For Weight Management And Cardiovascular Health (LLY)

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14
Sep

Prostock-Studio/iStock via Getty Images In our April analysis of Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), we assigned a Buy rating to the stock, positing that the market might be undervaluing its innovative diabetes medication, Mounjaro, particularly in its potential as a weight loss solution. Our assessment indicated a potential underestimation in market forecasts, hinting at a more favorable […]

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Infection

Scrub Typhus kills 5 in Odisha, 9 in Shimla. What is the deadly infection?

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14
Sep

ByManjiri Chitre Sep 14, 2023 08:08 AM IST Share Via Copy Link Officials said that at least five people have died in Odisha, while nine people have succumbed to the infection in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla. Scrub Typhus, a highly infectious disease, has been causing unexpected deaths in some parts of India. Officials said that at […]

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Blood

Rasip1 gene found to be intimately involved in the creation of blood cells

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14
Sep

Blood has long been a symbol of life and health, so it may be surprising that some aspects of blood production, i.e., hematopoiesis, remain incompletely understood. One such mystery is the role of a protein called SOX17. Blood cells are generated by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), and SOX17 seems to be important to the development […]

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