Surgical pain increases risk of infection, study shows
...ude that previous studies showwill cut the risk of infection by more than half. "Inadequate treatment of surgical pain is still fairly common," Sessler says."Here we have intriguing evidence that careful and complete control of pain notonly improves patient comfort, but also markedly reduces the risk of infect...Advances in 'On the Spot' tests have huge public health implications
...atient tests" (testing and diagnosing patients for infection on the spot, without the need to send samples to a...ion of the meaning of positive results; deliberate infection of others after infection has been confirmed and the self administration of remedies. Prof Borriell...Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...s that thecirculating white blood cells that fight infection are not helped -- or hurt --by red wine. "There's been a lot of publicity lately on the health benefits of red wine, butwe also know that alcohol suppresses the immune system," said Percival, aresearcher in UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sci...Study shows benefit of pioneering U-M program for newborns at risk of hearing impairment
...birth weight; family history ofchildhood deafness; infection with a virus such as herpes; use of an antibiotic,respirator or heart-lung machine after birth; and abnormalities of the head,face or neck. The test, called auditory brainstem response or ABR, plays clicksinto the ear and measures the response throug...Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...f thearteries. Nearly everybody gets a respiratory infection caused by Chlamydiapneumoniae at some time in their lives, and severe infections can lead tobronchitis and pneumonia. In the late 1980s, Chlamydia pneumoniae was discovered in samples ofdiseased coronary artery tissue. Two small trials showed......narrowing of the arteries, high blood pressure and infection ofheart muscle or valves. The weakened heart muscle deteriorates and cannot pumpblood as efficiently, causing patients to feel tired and short of breath.Eventually, the heart fails. Heart transplant is often the only option. The PREMIUM trial will fo...Milestone study in development of xenotransplantation
...no evidence of PorcineEndogenous Retrovirus (PERV) infection in 160 patients previously treated withliving pig ...e different tests to see whether there hadbeen any infection by or transmission of the pig virus. Samples from thepatients were tested in different laboratories ...A leading cause of blindness may be controlled by simple course of oral antibiotic
... trachoma. Children areparticularly vulnerable to infection by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis,which resul... have the right drugdelivery method to control the infection over time. Now we know that we do, andwe are very excited at the promise of these results," says Ju...A leading cause of preventable blindness may be controlled by simple course of oral antibiotic
...ntibiotic azithromycin mighteffectively control an infection that causes widespread eye disease indeveloping co...cal antibiotics reduced the severity ofdisease and infection levels for the short-term, but they did not controltrachoma levels over the long-term. Trachoma occu...Study finds HIV breastfeeding risk highest in early months after birth
...te (NCI). "Little isknown about the timing of HIV infection through breastfeeding or the associatedrisk factor...ed mothers. The researcherstested infants for HIV infection during visits to the postnatal care clinic of alarge urban hospital in Malawi. Only babies who test...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...gery to move the bones in hermid-face forward. The infection left Emily with large gaps in the front sectionof her skull. Now Emily wears a bike helmet to protect her skull where there isno bone structure. Jeffery O. Hollinger, D.D.S., Ph.D., OHSU department of surgery (plastic andreconstructive surgery), and ...Unprotected anal sex increasing in San Francisco
...of HIV is also a danger. Although rates of new HIV infection in San Francisco have remained stable at twopercen...d long-term HIV prevention strategies, ongoing HIV infection will remain apermanent problem among gay male populations." In addition to Ekstrand, co-authors of t...New HIV drug intervention cheap and effective
...e case of infant HIV. The cost to prevent one HIV infection using the universal nevirapine treatment was $138,...tions in much of sub-Saharan Africa, regardless of infection rates."In addition to Marseille and Kahn, co-authors include Francis Mmiro, MBChB, FRCOG, professor ...UI study advances understanding of antimicrobials and cystic fibrosis-related infection
...crobial agents thatnormally protect the lungs from infection caused by inhaled bacteria and othermicroorganisms...owed that cystic fibrosis disruptsdefenses against infection because the thin layer of liquid that lines theairways is saltier than in non-cystic fibrosis airway...UT Southwestern to study lipodystrophy syndrome in HIV-infected patients
...it here, it isnot clear if other HIV drugs, or HIV infection per se, may be involved," Gargsaid. The UT Southwestern study will recruit HIV-infected patients who have nevertaken protease inhibitors and are relatively healthy. Half will take proteaseinhibitors; the others will receive equally effective HIV medi...Some HIV patients show no viral rebound after stopping drugs
...hesubjects had begun therapy within four months of infection with HIV, so thevirus was suppressed relatively early. The researchers measured in thesepatients both the level of virus and the level of immune response. In three of the six patients, the virus remained low for between fourand 24 months afte...Even in an era of HAART Drugs, HIV patients are vulnerable to opportunistic infections
...and reverse transcriptase inhibitors, to subdueHIV infection and give the body the chance to increase its suppl...tandard treatment as prevention therapyagainst MAC infection in AIDS patients whose CD4+ counts were below 75,according to Aberg. Now with HAART, many patients......odies reach adetectable level in the blood and HIV infection is confirmed. A fourth personshowed symptoms of a... case, astandard anti-body test (LS-EIA) suggested infection occurred months aftertaking PEP medications. "It is important to remember that our study was not tes...Prophylactic treatment for the opportunistic infection known as MAC(Mycobacterium avium complex) can be s... with HIV infection. It usually caused widespread infection inmultiple organs, leading to debilitating symptoms and significantly decreasedchances of survival. ...Patients taking high blood pressure medication benefit from frequent dental care
...my ofPeriodontology. "And we know that periodontal infection may be a risk factor formore serious conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease andpre-term, low birth weight babies, so it's more important now than ever forpatients to take care of their periodontal health." These study findin...