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Northwestern University
A stem cell transplant reversed a debilitating neurological disease that causes half of the patients to go blind and lose the ability to walk five years after diagnosis. Most of the patients stayed better five years after the transplant and were able to avoid drug treatment that cost up to $500,000 yearly, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine and Mayo Clinic.
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Managed Healthcare Executive
The key to better health could be solved by taking a closer look at who distributes antibiotics, according to a recent Duke study, reported by Dr. Grace Lee, in The Chronicle, a Duke University publication. The study was conducted in four community hospitals across North Carolina and tested the feasibility of two strategies in lowering the rates of antibiotic over-prescription, a major cause of the development of multidrug-resistant superbugs.
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Medical News Today
Scientists have developed a sterilizing graphene filter that captures microbes and their harmful products from the air and destroys them. They envisage the device being useful in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
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Society For Healthcare Epidemiology of America via EurekAlert
Peripherally inserted central catheters that use a magnetized tip to guide insertion were associated with serious allergic reactions in patients, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Severe adverse reactions occurred in patients within minutes of PICC insertion.
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CIDRAP
When biopharmaceutical company Achaogen filed for bankruptcy in April, antibiotic development advocates warned that the move was an ominous sign for the antibiotic market. The previous June, the Food and Drug Administration had approved plazomicin, Achaogen's antibiotic for treatment of complicated urinary tract infections.
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Infectious Disease Advisor
A shorter course of antibiotic treatment for uncomplicated gram-negative bloodstream infections, including treatment of urinary tract associated gram-negative bacteremia, appears to be as effective as long-course antibiotic treatment, according to two posters presented at IDWeek 2019. The single-center retrospective studies were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of using shorter antibiotic courses in the treatment of bacteremia.
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Contagion Live
The U.S. will maintain its measles elimination status, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced. The announcement came just one day after health officials in New York State declared the end of the Rockland County outbreak, which persisted for nearly one year. “We are very pleased that the measles outbreak has ended in New York and that measles is still considered eliminated in the United States. This result is a credit to the cooperative work by local and state health departments, community and religious leaders, other partners and the [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar in a statement.
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American Medical Technologists
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The miniiSED™ is the newest addition to the iSED™ family of ESR analyzers from ALCOR Scientific. The miniiSED™ is a single position, fully automated ESR analyzer that works directly from the primary EDTA tube and produces an ESR result in just 15 seconds. The miniiSED™ is the ideal ESR analyzer for small laboratories, POL’s and emergency clinics.
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CIDRAP
New research presented recently at IDWeek 2019 indicates that nearly 4% of the patients given antibiotics unnecessarily before dental procedures experience serious adverse events, including allergic reactions and emergency room visits. The findings are a follow-up to a study published in May that found that nearly 81% of antibiotics prescribed before dental procedures are unnecessary.
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Northwestern University via ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a tiny nanolaser that can function inside of living tissues without harming them.
Just 50 to 150 nanometers thick, the laser is about 1/1,000th the thickness of a single human hair.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests.
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Popular Science
Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control started monitoring the spread of a poliolike illness, which causes limb weakness and paralysis, after cases began appearing in 2014. Five years later, they know more than they did at the outset, but still have few answers about the cause of the disease.
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