Monthly Archives: November 2023

Third transplant patient dies with fungal infection in Queensland

A Queensland hospital has defended its clinical procedures after a patient died from a fungal infection earlier this year. Radiographer Jurgen Zoller died after contracting Fusarium Solani following a bone marrow transplant at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) in March. It follows two separate patient deaths at the Prince Charles Hospital that could […]

Man has ‘blood on his hands’ as he allegedly tells police he murdered his mother on Whidbey Island

WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. — A man was arrested on Friday after he allegedly murdered his mother in Freeland on Whidbey Island, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said it got a call that a man walking around the 5500 block of Cameron Road said he had committed a crime and wanted […]

Checking your blood pressure at home

Managing high blood pressure, or hypertension, has long been recognised as an essential component of heart health care. (Photo: Pexels) HYPERTENSION or high blood pressure, remains a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke, affecting 48 per cent of adults in the United States. According to the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey for 2016/17, […]

Seroprevalence and risk factors for Neospora spp. infection in equine in Egypt

Abstract Neospora infections in equine are associated with reproductive disorders and neurological diseases. Nevertheless, Egypt has no epidemiological information on this parasite in equine. This study determined the prevalence of Neospora spp. infection in 325 equines from three Egyptian governorates located at Northern Egypt using cELISA. The prevalence of antibodies against Neospora spp. was 19% (95% […]

VIDEO: AI could ‘shift’ practice in pediatric infectious diseases

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Diagnostic performance of ultrasensitive rapid diagnostic test for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum infections in asymptomatic individuals in Kisangani, Northeast Democratic Republic of Congo

WHO. World malaria report 2022. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022. Google Scholar  PNLP, Swiss TPH, KSPH, INRB and INFORM. An epidemiological profile of malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A report prepared for the Federal Ministry of Health, Democratic Republic of Congo, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the Department for International Development, UK. […]

Blood drive in Wellesley to honor the memory of Dan McCabe

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Allelic hierarchy for USH2A influences auditory and visual phenotypes in South Korean patients

Abstract When medical genetic syndromes are influenced by allelic hierarchies, mutant alleles have distinct effects on clinical phenotypes. Genotype–phenotype correlations for Usher syndrome type 2 (USH2) suggest that the USH2A gene exhibits an allelic hierarchy. Here, we analyzed the phenotypes and genotypes of 16 South Korean patients with USH2A biallelic variants to investigate an allelic […]