CancerNetwork® hosted a Training Academy focused on monitoring and managing infections in patients with multiple myeloma who are treated with bispecific antibodies. Meet the experts Incidence of Infections In clinical trials utilizing B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) CD3 bispecific antibodies, infection rates were significantly higher across the board compared with patients who did not receive BCMA […]
Credit: CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Researchers at Yale University, the University of Florida, and the Connecticut Department of Correction have published new findings in Nature Communications that shows high levels of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 may reduce protection from COVID-19 vaccines and prior infection of the virus. The study suggests that in crowded environments, that […]
By Alexa Lardieri U.S. Deputy Health Editor Dailymail.Com Updated: 12:10 EDT, 23 August 2023
TOPEKA (KSNT)- Kansas researchers are in the next phase of getting ready to study infectious diseases. The National Bio Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) is partnering with Kansas State University, so researchers can get hands-on experience at the university’s clinical skills lab. “They simulate the environment that individuals will be working in, but they focus on skill […]
“Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections are something common that we treat here in our clinic”, says Tasha Carter, a Nurse Practitioner at Washington Regional Ozark Urology. “A recurrent urinary tract infection occurs when there have been more than two urinary tract infections in six months or three in one year. Some common symptoms of urinary tract […]
Preventing harm to patients and health workers in health-care facilities is fundamental to delivering safe, high-quality health-care services, as well as reducing health-care-associated infections and tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This requires the implementation of robust infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes on both facility and national levels. WHO IPC requirements are […]
Health News Florida, reporting the sad toll, also notes that 26 cases of Vibrio vulnificus were reported in the state so far in 2023. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, the Department of Public Health reported that four local residents have tested positive for Powassan virus, the first cases in the state this year. Health News Florida: Five […]
According to Dr. Puja Kushwah, Sr. Consultant – Neurosciences, Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute, Noida, “When an immune response to an earlier infection or other incident reacts with similar epitopes on peripheral nerves (a process known as molecular mimicry), it causes GBS. Up to two-thirds of patients give a history of such antecedent events.” Infections […]
After undergoing two invasive spinal surgeries this summer, Selling Sunset star Amanza Smith is a survivor in the truest sense of the word. The 46-year-old interior designer revealed to PEOPLE how osteomyelitis, a potentially rare and life-threatening bone infection was attacking her lower vertebrae. After a severe backache that lasted nearly a month caused her […]
While people don’t pay much attention when it comes to buying soap for themselves, they should because it is one of the most essential parts of personal hygiene. You should be extra careful when it comes to buying antibacterial soaps, especially ring the monsoon season. As the name suggests, the purpose of buying antibacterial soaps […]