outbreak of the Clostridium difficile (C. diff) bug has killed two hospital patients and contributed to the deaths of three more.The patients were among a total of eight elderly people who contracted the infection at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee over the past 10 weeks.All of those affected had been in the hospital's ward 31, which generally cares for geriatric patients.NHS Tayside said it carried out...
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other patients – Shaik Khaja Bi and T. Mastanaiah — who underwent cataract surgeries in Bollineni Eye Hospital in the city, and were undergoing treatment in the Government Headquarters Hospital here, became partially blind as they lost vision in one eye due to infection.With this, the number of patients losing sight in one eye due to infection rose to 13.District ophthalmic surgeon M. Manjulamma said...
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diseases can be broadly categorised on the basis of their cause into infections, allergies or autoimmune disorders, and physiological disturbances.Infections can be due to viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites. While measles, chicken pox, herpes, and warts are common examples of viral infections, impetigo, folliculitis, and abscesses are bacterial infections.Fungal infections that are frequently met...
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government has taken its "eye off the ball" on hospital infections other than MRSA and Clostridium difficile, a cross-party group of MPs says.The Public Accounts Committee said setting targets in England for the two infections had led to a fall in cases.But they warned there were signs other bugs, such as E. coli, were becoming more common and they called for better surveillance to curb the problem.In...
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federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) long anticipated revised estimate of annual new cases of HIV infections was revealed today in a paper published in the Aug. 6, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The revised estimated number of new infections suggests that the HIV epidemic here in the United States is more severe than current statistics portray....
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arrested.Full Story And Original Content.Thnewspk.com:HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection has now spread to every country in the world. Approximately 40 million people are currently living with HIV infection, and an estimated 25 million have died from this disease. The scourge of HIV has been particularly devastating in sub-Saharan Africa, but infection rates in []...
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'Respiratory symptoms' or similar listed as a symptom in our database.This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the causeof any symptom.paroxysmal coughing, morning cough, coughing foul-smelling sputum, coughing blood, recurrent respiratory infections, coughing green or yellow sputum, chronic coughproductive cough, persistent winter...
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, mostly in young children. (Meningitis is an infection of the covering of the brain.)Pneumococcal meningitis can also lead to other health problems, including deafness and brain damage.Pneumococcal infections can be hard to treat because some strains of the bacteria have become resistant to the drugs that have been used to treat them. This makes prevention of pneumococcal infections, through vaccination,...
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Drug-resistant superbugs are rising uncontrollably in Europe. Experts are calling for prudent use of antibiotics and for control of healthcare-associated infections.In a survey conducted through the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), as many as 55 different bacteria were reported by the doctors as being totally resistant to antibiotics, including bugs that cause pneumonia, urinary...
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2009 HIN1 infection a public health emergency that justifies the emergency use of certain drugs to treat 2009 H1N1 influenza. In response to this emergency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the use of the unapproved drug, Peramivir IV, to treat certain adult and pediatric patients with suspected or laboratory confirmed 2009 H1N1 infection or infection due to nonsubtypable influenza...
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