One new drug for three deadly tropical diseases
Scientists have identified a compound that can kill the parasites responsible for three neglected...
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Infectious Disease
Pseudomonas Infection: Prince George Hospital Transferring Infants
Bacteria pseudomonas has been found in a water pipe, which supplies the neonatal intensive care...
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Vaccine candidates: Data support rapid development of Zika vaccines for humans
A ZIKV purified inactivated virus Zika vaccine candidate provided robust protection against the...
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HIV & Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
While the human immunodeficiency virus pandemic fuels tuberculosis outbreaks, does it drive the...
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Healthcare Prices & Quality of Care
Recently, the government, insurers, and other companies have made efforts to make price and...
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People with ‘rage’ disorder twice as likely to have toxoplasmosis
A disorder that causes the individual to fly off the handle unexpectedly, as in road rage, has...
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U.S. Opens Door to a Change in Blood Donation Policy for Gay Men
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the door to a change in its blood donor deferral...
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Study: Overdiagnosing Infections in Ambulatory Care
Fleming-Dutra and colleagues analyzed cross-sectional data from the Centers for Disease Control...
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Updated 2016 HIV Guidelines Integrate Treatment and Prevention for the First Time
Updated recommendations from the International Antiviral Society-USA panel on antiretroviral (ARV)...
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Over doctors’ objections, Legislature mandates coverage for long-term Lyme disease treatment
With just three minutes left before the midnight end of the 2015-2016 legislative session,...
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Aging HIV patients now face Alzheimer’s risk
Researchers scrambling to determine impact of virus on the aging brain. Doctors have long...
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4 Tools to Project Your Practice’s End-of-Year Finances
Take steps now to avoid negative year-end shareholder compensation and tax surprises. Although...
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U.S. News 2016-2017 Best Hospitals Released
Who ranks #1 in the Honor Roll—and also in the top 3 in almost every specialty? Nearly 5,000...
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Inflammatory biomarkers & heart disease in men with HIV
A cardiac imaging study led by Hossein Bahrami, MD, PhD, assistant professor of cardiovascular...
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Is there difference in surgical site infection using sterile vs. nonsterile gloves?
Outpatient cutaneous surgical procedures are common and surgical gloves are standard practice to...
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Antibiotic resistance: Skin infection prevention treatment helps battle ‘superbugs’
Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom have discovered a pioneering...
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How to prevent dependency when patients first receive opioids
Clinicians should think twice when prescribing opioid medication to patients for the first time to...
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Perplexing Meningitis Outbreak Among Gay Men
There’s no known medical reason why meningitis, which is transmitted through saliva, would spread...
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Common Human Virus Can Promote Breast Cancer Development
New research reveals that infection with the Epstein-Barr virus may put some women at increased...
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International team describes step-by-step progress in battling toxoplasmosis
Thirty-nine researchers from 14 leading institutions in the US, UK, and France suggest novel...
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