Credit: CC0 Public Domain Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she scraped her right shin climbing onto her friend’s pontoon for a day of boating in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 13. Even though her friend immediately dressed the slight cut, her shin was red and sore when King awoke the […]
At least 10% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, have symptoms that last more than four weeks after the infection. With more than 770 million infections to date, this translates to tens of millions of people living with the long-term consequences of COVID, known as “long COVID”. More than 200 symptoms […]
With COVID-19 rates rising around the country, and an updated vaccine now available, researchers are still trying to understand how immunity to COVID-19 works, and the best ways to build and sustain it. One of the possibly richest areas of research might be infections among the very young, who tend to be spared from more […]
Boy with oxygen mask in bed: © WavebreakmediaMicro – stock.adobe.com At IDWeek 2023, Anna Christina Sick-Samuels, assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, discussed the diagnostic challenges, prevention, and treatment of ventilator-associated infections (VAIs). The term ventilator-associated infection encompasses ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT) and/or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Sick-Samuels poses that […]
Red blood cells medical design. Medical science background. Generative AI. © Marharyta-stock.adobe.com Jennifer Blumenthal, MD, an instructor, pediatric infectious diseases and critical care medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University School of Medicine in Massachusetts provided an update on recent literature related to central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in children. A CLABSI is […]
Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT. The bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii is an extremely dangerous pathogen that is found, among other places, in hospitals: Many of the bacterial strains are resistant to different classes of antibiotics. Infections with Acinetobacter baumannii were first observed on a greater scale during the Iraq War and have increased worldwide at a rapid […]
Sinusitis affects around 1 in 8 adults in the United States. Infection is a frequent cause of sinusitis, affecting about 29 million Americans yearly. Antibiotics may not be necessary unless the sinus infection is severe and leads to a bacterial infection. Instead, guidelines recommend management strategies aiming to ease symptoms. Over-the-counter (OTC) medications often help […]
The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, has said washing hands with soap under running water can reduce infections by 50 percent and respiratory disease by 25 per cent. Salako made this known on Monday, at an event to commemorate the 2023 Global Handwashing Day organised in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education, […]
Jana Kramer‘s babymoon wasn’t exactly a good time. The pregnant 39-year-old actress and singer took to Instagram over the weekend to share details on the scary situation she found herself in after getting hospitalized due to a “bad bacterial infection.” Posting a series of hospital pics and videos to Instagram, Kramer wrote, “Well. Our babymoon […]
image: CSHL postdoc Armin Scheben, with help from McCombie lab members Sara Goodwin and Melissa Kramer, created the first complete genome sequences of Artibeus jamaicensis, the Jamaican fruit bat (seen here), and Pteronotus mesoamericanus, the Mesoamerican mustached bat. view more Credit: McCombie and Siepel labs/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Bats have acquired remarkable traits throughout their evolution. They’re the […]