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Researchers discover potential new antimalarial treatment targets

Researchers have discovered crucial new processes that allow malaria parasites to escape red blood cells and infect other cells, offering potential new treatment targets.

20 Feb 2018

Loyola Medicine primary care physician offers advice to minimize risk of flu

With widespread flu activity across most of the U.S., avoiding exposure can be difficult, but Loyola Medicine primary care physician Mary Barsanti-Sekhar, MD, offers some advice to minimize the risk.

19 Feb 2018

Early childhood immune signature predicts risk of developing asthma later on

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by the interplay of genetics, environmental factors and a diverse cast of immune cells.

19 Feb 2018

Poor awareness among parents may hinder a child's early dental care

A new survey has found that one in six parents are likely to postpone their children’s dental care visits until the age of 4 or older.

19 Feb 2018

Manage Your Risk: Monitoring the Environment of Aseptic Processes

Lisa G. Lawson has over 25 years’ experience in supporting large and small pharmaceutical companies in contamination control, including cleaning and disinfection strategies, aseptic manufacturing and use of risk-based approaches to microbiological quality challenges

From Particle Measuring Systems 15 Feb 2018

Hand hygiene-intervention practices may reduce risk of infection among nursing home patients

Infection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, not just hospital settings.

15 Feb 2018

New CSIRO technology can create clean drinking water

Sydney's iconic harbor has played a starring role in the development of new CSIRO technology that could save lives around the world.

15 Feb 2018

The training of Dr. Robot: Data wave hits medical care

The technology used by Facebook, Google and Amazon to turn spoken language into text, recognize faces and target advertising could help doctors combat one of the deadliest killers in American hospitals.

14 Feb 2018

Four-pronged approach can lead to healthy aging for older adults

Want to live a long and healthy life? Of course. Well, that's not going to just happen. It'll take some effort – especially if you're already 65 or older.

13 Feb 2018

Simple toolkit improves quality of care in Indian hospitals

A simple toolkit of checklists, education materials and quality and performance reporting improved the quality of care but not outcomes in hospitals in the south Indian state of Kerala and may have the potential to improve outcomes of heart attacks and other major cardiovascular disease events in other settings, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

13 Feb 2018

OHSU, CDC physicians treat first known case of woman infected with cattle eyeworm

An August 2016 call to an infectious disease hotline OHSU runs for Northwest physicians ended up being one for the record books.

13 Feb 2018

Expert lists 5 common indications that a co-worker could be suffering from addiction

Alcohol and drug-related deaths continue to be a problem in the UK, with the Office for National Statistics reporting that the number of people dying from alcohol and drug abuse has continued to increase over the last decade.

12 Feb 2018

Human antibodies against malaria parasite can prevent spread of disease

Malaria is a disease that spreads incredibly efficiently. The antimalarial medicines that are currently used cannot do much to stop this, because the parasites remain in the patient's blood for a long time after treatment.

8 Feb 2018

Minor errors can lead to fatal consequences

It is not only about relatively minor gastrointestinal illnesses like self-limiting diarrhea. In particular among persons from risk groups (small children, expectant mothers, very old people or people whose immune system has been weakened by previous illness), a food-borne infection can also be severe, cause lasting damage and even prove fatal under certain circumstances.

6 Feb 2018

Australian research looks at hospital acquired medical complications

A new study has shown that one in nine Australian patients who were hospitalized between 2012 and 2015, suffered from one or the other hospital acquired complication. These complications are usually of a preventable nature and occur when there is a deficiency in patient care.

6 Feb 2018

Kitchen hygiene presented in TV cooking shows may have influence on behavior of viewers

On the occasion of International Green Week, the BfR is presenting the aims, procedure, and results of the project today at the BfR Kitchen Hygiene forum in the CityCube Berlin. "The results show that important hygiene measures are often neglected in cooking shows, with one hygiene error being observed every 50 seconds on average," says BfR President Professor Dr. Andreas Hensel.

2 Feb 2018