CDC: Saving patients from sepsis is a race against time
Many cases of life-threatening sepsis could be recognized and treated long before they cause...
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Infectious Disease
Pinprick to test for bacterial infections, including meningitis and sepsis
A major breakthrough by scientists could pave the way for the first rapid test for sepsis and...
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New Guidelines : Treating Patients with TB and HIV – Timing of ART has changed
New guidelines have been released for the first time since 2003, which updated the timing of...
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Physician Debt & Compensation: Where Does Your Specialty Fall?
Who is still paying off student loans? Who has suffered loss due to practice issues? Here are the...
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Eliminating Screening Barriers for HCV
Approximately 3.9 million Americans are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV),...
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Analyzing “Breakthrough Therapy” Perceptions
After an investigational medication is subject to clinical trials but before it is permitted to be...
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African HIV trials could create world’s first vaccine
South Africa is on track to produce the world’s first licensed HIV/AIDS vaccine, a conference has...
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New maths to predict dangerous hospital epidemics
Mathematicians are now developing completely new statistical calculations on the world’s...
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How to Deal With Another Doctor’s Error – and Minimize Liability
Our expert provides legal guidance for the three scenarios you may be confronted with when dealing...
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Current National Travel Health Warnings, reported by the CDC
Find out the most recent, updated travel health warnings released by the CDC. Alert Level 2,...
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Does HIV coinfection accelerate emergence of MDR-TB?
Although HIV coinfection may fuel the spread of TB outbreaks among susceptible populations, can...
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Time of day influences our susceptibility to infection, study finds
We are more susceptible to infection at certain times of the day as our body clock affects the...
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Anticipating the Challenges of Zika Virus and the Incidence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Zika’s effects on pregnant women have grabbed most media attention–and rightly so. But the...
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Microbicides Vaginal bacteria increase HIV susceptibility and may reduce PrEP effectiveness
Overgrowth of a certain species of vaginal bacteria was associated with a 13-fold higher...
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Misinterpretation of Medical Error Deaths from BMJ Paper Continues
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post called “Overestimating the effect of medical errors can be...
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New Study Explains Why MRSA ‘Superbug’ Kills Influenza Patients
Researchers have discovered that secondary infection with the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...
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Detectable CMV viral Load & Rrisk of Mortality in Elderly with HIV-Associated TB
A study conducted in a cohort of hospitalised adults with HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB)...
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Maximizing Potential With Social Media
As the use of social media continues to grow in leaps and bounds, physicians are increasingly...
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What Role Does Spirituality Play in Medicine?
While training to be doctors, most of us learned that professional ethics dictate that we not...
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bioLytical Receives CE Mark for HIV Self-Testing Kit
ioLytical Laboratories Inc., a world leader in rapid infectious disease tests, announced today...
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