Public health experts are warning about an “alarming” increase in congenital syphilis cases across the state and the impact on pregnant women and infants. Cases of infants contracting syphilis from their mothers almost tripled in two years, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported, from 29 infections in 2020 to 50 in 2021 and 84 […]
ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Georgia lawmakers are concerned about a rise of sexually transmitted infections in the state. One lawmaker says Georgia is one of the leaders of HIV in the country. Data from the Department of Public Health details tens of thousands of cases of infections including chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. The numbers are […]
Bird flu hit a north central Iowa farm with game pheasants, commercial laying hens and peafowl, the ninth poultry operation in the state to be affected this fall by the deadly disease. The Iowa Department of Agriculture said about 8,400 game bird pheasants, 160 chickens and 16 peafowl were on the Kossuth County farm where […]
Antibiotic resistance is a growing issue around the world. A new study finds that it’s leaving children and infants vulnerable to potentially deadly bacterial infections, like sepsis and meningitis AILSA CHANG, HOST: Each year, millions of people around the world die from drug-resistant infections as more bacteria gain the ability to fight the antibiotics we […]
This is a KFF Health News story. A proposed federal policy aims to protect older Americans from contracting HIV by offering free preventive medication, the latest effort to catch up to much of Europe and Africa in stemming the spread of the virus. Under the plan from the Biden administration, Medicare would cover patients’ full […]
Marina G. Birck, PhD, MSc Credit: LinkedIn Despite a history of concern over safety outcome disparities among patients switching to from a reference biologic product to a biosimilar, new research from Canada suggests at least one biologics’ biosimilars are not associated with increased risk of serious infections.1 In new research presented in an abstract presented […]
A research team led by Dr. Julian Hurdle from the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology has finally unmasked the genetic reason why metronidazole has become less effective against fluoroquinolone-resistant C. diff. Texas A&M Health Marketing & Communications Researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) have uncovered why […]
These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case — antibiotics have been available for less than a century. Before that, patients would die of relatively trivial infections that became more serious. Some serious infections, such as those involving […]
NEW DELHI: Antibiotics are no longer as effective as earlier it used to be on sepsis and meningitis in newborns. According to recent research, the most commonly prescribed antibiotic in the treatment of sepsis and meningitis in newborns is just 50 % effective, reported NPR. This new research was published in The Lancet Regional Health […]
Nov. 7 (UPI) — Calling it a tipping point in the explosion of the number of babies born with syphilis in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said Tuesday that medical professionals and communities need to more aggressive in identifying the infections and treating them at their earliest stages. The CDC […]