After billions of global COVID-19 infections, millions of deaths, and countless lives upended by long-lasting health impacts, we’ve finally hit a point in this pandemic where SARS-CoV-2 isn’t the fearsome pathogen it used to be. Once thought to kill up to 20 per cent of those infected in the early days of 2020, COVID’s destructive […]
Over the course of her weeks-long admission to neonatal intensive care units last summer, an Ontario family’s premature baby suffered low oxygen levels and acquired an infection after being fed a stranger’s breast milk — but her family says, ultimately, it was a lack of communication from the Toronto area hospitals’ staff that has “forever […]
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), especially Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA), has been disseminated across communities and hospitals, associated with severe infections and organ failure. In order to understand the clinical epidemiological characteristics of S. aureus stains in the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University in 2018, the prevalence and the drug resistance of S. […]
The United States is set to roll out a powerful new weapon in the long fight against sexually transmitted infections: a decades-old antibiotic repurposed as a preventative pill. DoxyPEP, or doxycycline used as a post-exposure prophylaxis, has been found to significantly cut the risk of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis when used after condomless sex. The […]
Open this photo in gallery: Seniors wait after receiving a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Montreal on March 10, 2021.Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press A large majority of Canadians now bear the signs of COVID-19 in their blood in two ways: through vaccination and through infection, a study of antibody levels […]
KOLKATA: Several private hospitals in Kolkata are facing a bed crisis with occupancy hovering around 90% for a month. A spike in admissions due to a spurt in viral infections, increased surgeries and a slow but consistent rise in dengue patients have combined to fill up beds, stretching the waiting time for admission to 12-24 […]
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Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) were strongly linked with serious infection risk among infants and young children in a large national study, suggesting caution in prescribing. In more than one million children followed for approximately 4 years, use of PPIs was associated with a 34% increase in risk for infections requiring hospitalization (HR 1.34, 95% CI […]
The main objective of this study was to determine the seroprevalence as well as risk factors of HBV and HCV co-infections in HIV- children. In particular, the study found that seroprevalence of HBV is higher in seropositive children than in seronegative. HBV seroprevalence is higher than in all previous published data in HIV-negative children. Indeed, […]
