About The Study: In this study of 274 midlife women, greater posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were associated with higher carotid atherosclerosis and, among women who were APOEɛ4 carriers, greater brain small vessel disease and poorer cognitive performance. These findings point to the adverse implications of PTSD symptoms for cardiovascular and neurocognitive health among women in […]
Monthly Archives: November 2023
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By Matthew Hill BBC West health correspondent People are being invited to take part in a new research study looking at providing a shingles vaccine combined with the Covid-19 or flu jab. Researchers at the University of Bristol are seeing if giving protection against shingles at the same time as the other vaccines can boost […]
ANDREW, Iowa — When Lincoln Veach was just 4 years old, a series of diagnoses left him fighting for his life for months at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. Now 6, Lincoln, who lives just outside Andrew, is set to join the University of Iowa football team at its Nov. 4 game against […]
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OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Ottawa will host a community blood drive with ImpactLife, the provider of blood components for local hospitals, from 7:30 a.m. to noon and 1 tp 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 1100 E. Norris Drive, inside Meeting Room 1. Potential donors must be at least 17 years of age […]
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People with pneumonia who have experienced Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections may be able to reduce recurrences if they take doxycycline instead of the standard treatment. The study comes as the US Centers for Disease Control kicked off C. diff awareness month Wednesday. The study was published today in the American Journal of Infection Control. […]
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Alternative antibiotic selection can reduce the risk of health care-associated infections for patients with pneumonia
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) reveals that the use of doxycycline may help protect against Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection for some patients with pneumonia. Specifically, study authors found that for hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia who had experienced C. diff infections in […]
Board Blood Drive | Event | Ohio Red Cross Menu Greater Cincinnati Board Blood Drive Greater CincinnatiAmerican Red Cross Auditorium2111 Dana AvenueCincinnati, OH45207 Friday, November 24, 202310:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. There is no replacement for human blood donation. Patients suffering trauma, injury and illness need us. To schedule an appointment, please log on to […]
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Dear Dr. Roach: A person who works in the medical field told me that she is against vaccinations. The reason she gave is that when you put a specific vaccine into your body, your resistance to any other virus or bacteria is severely diminished. Thus, if you get a COVID vaccination, you are then much more […]
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1Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Radiology, Huadong Sanatorium, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China Correspondence: Lei Jiang, Department of Radiology, Huadong Sanatorium, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13921272670, Email [email protected] Background: Lung […]
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Controversial right-wing MK Simcha Rothman has threatened to sue Channel 12 news for defamation, after it reported that he had indicated during a recent Knesset hearing that he believed the lives of settlers killed in a terror attack earlier this year were worth more than those of Israelis killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack on […]