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The Red Cross will hold a blood drive from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, at the Plumville Volunteer Fire Hall, 109 Indiana St., Plumville.
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Introduction Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, and the incidence continues annually. National cancer statistics show that in 2016, the number of new cancers in China was 4.064 million, and the number of deaths from cancer was 2.414 million. According to the latest global cancer burden data released by the World Health […]
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The actor known best as Mac Scorpio on “General Hospital” will take a break from filming the daytime soap to receive treatment. LOS ANGELES — John J. York, the longtime star of the daytime soap opera “General Hospital,” shared that he is undergoing treatment for two types of blood and bone marrow disorders and will be […]
Congenital disorders
European Medicines Agency recommends new restrictions on Topiramate in pregnancy
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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 […]
Infection
E. coli outbreak involving daycare centers tops 300 patients; kitchen remains under scrutiny
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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 […]
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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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 […]
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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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 […]