Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...eptococcus pneumoniae, a major cause of pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, was dramatically reversed following the licensing and use of a new conjugate vaccine for young children in February 2000, according to research conducted at Emory University, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Centers for Di...How to avoid the health risks of Hajj
...iversity of Edinburgh. "Outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis occurred among British pilgrims in 1987, 2000, and 2001, and the Saudi authorities now insist that all pilgrims must be vaccinated." Pilgrims also need to be aware of the risks of important bloodborne infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C, esp...Study explores antibiotic misuse
...eeded to treat life-threatening conditions such as meningitis and pneumonia may be useless within 50 years. "It's a federal issue. We are in big trouble in this country if we don't get our antibiotic use under control. Sounds alarmist? It's not," says the physician, who in the last year has seen children in t...Infection in ELBW infants linked with poor neurodevelopmental, growth outcomes
...th the small intestine and the colon; n = 279), or meningitis with or without sepsis (n = 193). The majority of ELBW survivors (65 percent) had at least 1 infection during their hospitalization after birth. The researchers found that compared with uninfected infants, those in each of the 4 infection groups were...Infection puts extremely low birth weight infants at risk for developmental delays
...l impairments. For example, in the group that had meningitis with or without sepsis (an infection of the blood) 38 percent had low scores for mental development, compared to 22 percent of the children who did not have an infection. Children in this group were also more likely to have cerebral palsy (19 percen...Infections in low-birth-weight infants are associated with impaired neurodevelopment and growth
...2); sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis (279); or meningitis with or without sepsis (193). Sepsis is an infection of the bloodstream, and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a severe intestinal disease linked to infection. Overall, 41 percent of the assessed infants had at least one adverse neurodevelopme...Study documents adverse events of pneumococcal vaccine in children
...ravity of serious pneumococcal infections (such as meningitis or pneumonia) and confidence in the efficacy and safety of PCV. Prior to licensure, almost 19,000 infants and children received PCV in randomized clinical trials that demonstrated good efficacy against invasive infections and a favorable safety prof...Endoscopic approach best for repairing bone defect between brain, nasal cavity
...on between the nose and brain, potentially causing meningitis and even death. When the cerebrospinal fluid escapes through the nose, loss of protective fluid around the brain can cause headaches as well as the uncontrollable dripping. "That is something that is classic," says Dr. Kountakis, who directs the ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 7, 2004
... is not accompanied by neurologic disease, such as meningitis or encephalitis. In the study, common symptoms were fatigue, muscle weakness, headache, difficulty concentrating, and fever. Almost a third of the patients were hospitalized from one to 56 days; 79 percent of those who attended school or work missed ...UCSD partners with Peru in NIH grant to battle malaria, world's number 2 killer
...thers develop jaundice, renal failure, hemorrhage, meningitis and/or heart failure. Their studies range from epidemiology and ecology to immunology to molecular pathogenesis....Vaccine reduces racial disparity in incidence of childhood pneumonia and meningitis
...s reduced the incidence of childhood pneumonia and meningitis and has helped to decrease the excess incidence among black Americans, according to a study in the May 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). "Historically, blacks in the United States have higher incidence of invasive pn...Jefferson scientists find how HIV causes dementia
...ease, unlike in other brain infections, such as in meningitis or herpes infection. "Neurons die," he says, "and the brain atrophies. It's extremely unusual. Infectious agents don't do this, but HIV does." He notes that the effect "is clearly due to HIV." In patients taking the anti-retroviral HAART cocktail of...Infants with fevers receive as good care when physicians rely on judgment than clinical guidelines
...nfants (2.4 percent of those tested) and bacterial meningitis in 0.5 percent." The authors found that the physi...ans detected as many cases of bacteremia/bacterial meningitis while performing fewer tests and hospitalizing fewer infants than would have occurred if strictly ad...UCSF study: Pediatrician's judgment often better than clinical guidelines for treating infant fever
...nfants (2.4 percent of those tested) and bacterial meningitis in 0.5 percent. The researchers found that the phy..."One infant with bacteremia and one with bacterial meningitis were not treated with antibiotics by the physicians on day one, but they were treated on the next da...Vaccinating children protects adults as well
...cus, is one of the most common causes of bacterial meningitis in children in the United States. It can also cau...e, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) defined as meningitis or a bloodstream infection, which can include some cases of pneumonia since the introduction in the...Experimental treatment yields new hope for children battling cerebral palsy
... years of the child's life. They include bacterial meningitis and other infections, bleeding in the brain, lack of oxygen, severe jaundice and head injury. The CDC's website states that the lifetime costs for a person with were about $800,000 (in year 2000 dollars), not including expenses such as caregiver cost...Many parents, teens unaware of an 'optional' but valuable vaccine
...s within hours of the first signs of illness, from meningitis (inflammation of the brain's lining) or sepsis (bloodstream infection). Survivors may suffer hearing loss, seizures, mental retardation or limb amputation. The contagious disease is most likely to strike infants under the age of one--for whom the cur...Study confirms benefits of hemispherectomy surgery
...ew with major postoperative complications, such as meningitis and edema, all the children we followed up with are up and about and most have adapted to their handicapped side so well that they play the piano, golf, ping-pong and can dance," Kossoff added. In the latest study, Hopkins researchers reviewed the c...UCSD researchers decipher function of blood-brain barrier in bacterial meningitis
...human blood-brain barrier in response to bacterial meningitis is described by researchers at the University of C...lso describe two bacterial factors specific to the meningitis pathogen that thwart the normal protective role of the blood-brain barrier, leading to serious infec...High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
...ding the vaccine, which protects against bacterial meningitis and other diseases, almost one in three harbors co... tens of thousands of potentially deadly bacterial meningitis and bloodstream infections each year, and untold millions of painful ear infections. That's why pare...