News tagged with prophylaxis
Migraine prevention by targeting glutamate receptors?
Apr 29, 2009 |
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When migraine strikes, because of severe pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, sufferers are effectively disabled for up to 72 hours. Since they are forced to stop what they are doing until ...
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Perforated surgical gloves associated with surgical site infection risk
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Surgical gloves that develop holes or leaks during a procedure appear to increase the risk of infection at the surgical site among patients who are not given antibiotics beforehand, according to a report in the June issue ...
The balance shifts
May 27, 2008 |
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The risk of contracting a Clostridium difficile infection following operations for which a "prophylactic" antibiotic is given to prevent infection is 21 times greater now than it was just a decade ago, according to researchers ...
Extended infant antiretroviral prophylaxis reduces HIV risk during breastfeeding
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 05, 2008 |
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In many resource-poor countries, infants born to mothers with HIV receive a single dose of nevirapine (NVP) and a one-week dose of zidovudine (ZDV) to prevent transmission of HIV from the mother to her newborn. The results ...
Researchers determine risk factors for infection after liver transplantation
Jun 05, 2008 |
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Nearly 9 percent of patients who recently underwent liver transplantation suffered a subsequent surgical site infection (SSI). Risk factors included having had biliary-enteric anastomosis (choledocho-jejunal or hepatic-jejunal ...
Averting postsurgical infections in kids: Give antibiotics within hour before first incision
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery, suggests a Johns Hopkins study to be published in the August issue ...
Study: Quick responses to influenza outbreaks reduces illness and death
Jun 10, 2008 |
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Influenza outbreaks were shorter and resulted in fewer cases and fewer deaths at long-term care facilities that started residents on preventive antiviral medications within five days of the first case, compared to those that ...
FDA issues Myfortic tablets safety alert
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 28, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert for pregnant patients using the kidney transplant drug Myfortic delayed-release tablets.
ART therapy for babies, mothers safely reduces HIV transmission
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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Giving daily antiretroviral syrup to breastfeeding infants or treating their HIV-infected mothers with highly active antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission through breast ...
Mouse model shows potential efficacy of HIV prevention strategy
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 15, 2008 |
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A new kind of laboratory mouse can be used to test the efficacy of much-needed methods to prevent transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to research by J. Victor Garcia and colleagues at the University ...
Existing antiretroviral drugs may thwart vaginal HIV transmission, researchers report
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Jan 15, 2008 |
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Prescription drugs now used to treat human immunodeficiency virus infection in adults may prevent the vaginal transmission of HIV, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
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