Mostly children are part of a Salmonella outbreak in Poland that has affected almost 200 people. The total number ill is 192, including 158 children and 34 nursery school employees. Ten children are still in The hospital out of 22 people who had to be admitted. The nursey school, identified as Kindergarten Number 3, has [...]
Not Enough Sleep It may seem obvious but you could be getting too little sleep. That can negatively affect your concentration and health. Adults should get seven to eight hours every night. Fix: Make sleep a priority and keep a regular schedule. Ban laptops, cell phones, and televisions from your bedroom. Still having trouble? Seek help from [...]
Overview High blood cholesterol levels are a known risk factor for heart disease. For decades, people have been told that the dietary cholesterol in foods raises blood cholesterol levels and causes heart disease. This idea may have been a rational conclusion based on the available science 50 years ago, but better, more recent evidence doesn’t [...]
Measles wipes out some of the immunity to other diseases that children acquire through vaccinations and infections, leaving them more vulnerable to illness for months and even years afterward, two new studies published Thursday report. The findings help explain why countries that start to vaccinate children against measles see pediatric death rates drop substantially, beyond [...]
Abstract Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health concern, and livestock play a significant role in selecting for resistance and maintaining such reservoirs. Here we study the succession of dairy cattle resistome during early life using metagenomic sequencing, as well as the relationship between resistome, gut microbiota, and diet. In our dataset, the gut of [...]
Abstract The gut microbiome is an established regulator of aspects of host metabolism, such as glucose handling. Despite the known impacts of the gut microbiota on host glucose homeostasis, the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The gut microbiome is also a potent mediator of gut-derived serotonin synthesis, and this peripheral source of serotonin is itself a [...]
Testing platform will allow the research community to explore the human microbiome in new ways. The microbiome is a collection of trillions of bacteria that reside in and on our bodies. Each person’s microbiome is unique — just like a fingerprint — and researchers are finding more and more ways in which it impacts our [...]
A paper yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine is offering new details on the two patients who developed drug-resistant bloodstream infections after undergoing fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). The two patients, one of whom died, were first reported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a Jun 13 safety alert, in which the agency warned [...]
A global consortium that includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ministry of health, Doctors without Borders, the Wellcome Trust, and CEPI (the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), among other groups, is preparing for the introduction of a second Ebola vaccine to be used in the DRC in the coming days. And in disease [...]
Highlights Antibiotics for urinary tract indications were often not concordant to guidelines. Prophylactic urinary tract infection prescriptions were infrequently reviewed. Only 10.4% of cefalexin prescriptions for cystitis were concordant to guidelines. Additional daily doses of cefalexin were common in cystitis treatment. Image by Ewa Urban from Pixabay Read more… The post Urinary tract infections [...]
