Topline The number of syphilis cases in newborn babies has “reached dire levels” in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned, as cases of the once waning infection climb at an alarming pace amid shortages of crucial antibiotics used to treat it. Key Facts There has been a sharp surge […]
The incredibly drug-resistant “super gonorrhea” may have finally faced a foe it can’t best in the form of first-in-class antibiotic zoliflodacin. In a Phase III trial, the results of which were announced last week, the drug was found to treat the bacterial infection, making it the first new antibiotic in decades for targeting gonorrhea. Gonorrhea […]
MARYLAND — Hospitals in Maryland and nationwide made significant improvements in preventing a “disturbing” increase in hospital infections during the coronavirus pandemic, The Leapfrog Group said with the release Monday of its Fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades Report. The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group, used an academic grading scale with five […]
GAZA – Ahmed Al-Mandhari, the Regional Director of the World Health Organization in the Middle East, announced on Sunday the emergence of skin diseases, gastrointestinal infections, and pulmonary inflammation, including scabies, lice, and vitiligo, in the Gaza Strip, where the number of affected individuals has reached approximately 23,000.اضافة اعلان Al-Mandhari, speaking on the “Al-Ashira” program broadcast […]
A professor has warned of a newly detected strain of Covid which is feared to be “more transmissible” as it continues to spread through several countries. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says the new JN.1 strain of the virus has already been found in the UK, as well as the US, Iceland, Portugal […]
Hand hygiene (Adobe Stock 417724081 by Roman) Health care-associated infection (HAI) is one of the biggest public health problems that the United States is now dealing with. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HAIs are the most common complication of hospital care and are one of the top 10 leading causes of […]
Transplantation patients can be challenging to treat, especially with the introduction of a new organ or living tissue into the body and dealing with all the potential side effects including infections. For example, the development of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in post-transplant patients can bring about a whole host of issues. “Once [clinicians] do identify that there’s […]
Amos Williams is a typical 9-year-old with a shock of brown hair who can bust out laughing just by saying “banana.” Until the rage comes. Then his pupils dilate as if he is possessed, and he starts swearing and screaming and kicking and punching and biting and spitting. His parents restrain him to prevent him […]
EMBARGOED FOR 12:01 AM MONDAY Hospital-acquired infections, which became substantially more common during the pandemic, have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from a patient safety watchdog group. It’s key to note, researchers say, that infection rates before March 2020 were nothing to celebrate. On top of that moderately good news, the […]
At Kaneshie Polyclinic, a health center in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana, there is a rule. Every patient who walks through the door — a woman in labor, a construction worker with an injury, a child with malaria — is screened for tuberculosis. This policy, a national one, is meant to […]