What is complex congenital heart disease? How was congenital heart disease treated in the early 1900s? How does coronary artery disease affect the body? What is grown-up congenital heart disease? How does rheumatic heart disease develop?
Most radiation therapy in the developing world is delivered by cobalt-60 machines. How do they work? Manjit A cobalt-60 machine treats patients using a radioactive source. Cobalt has a half-life of just over five years, so patients have to be treated longer and longer to be given the sam...
How long is encephalitis contagious? How do viruses infect the human body? How does the rubella virus spread? How did the smallpox vaccine work? How did HIV become a worldwide epidemic? How could climate change bring the next cholera pandemic?
especially pork. As with infection with the rubella virus,toxoplasmosiscan cause birth defects if the infection occurs during early pregnancy. Women planning pregnancy can decrease the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis by avoiding raw meat and avoid handling cat litter boxes. It is possible to have b...
A urine culture is repeated every 1 to 3 months. Because of the increased risk of pyelonephritis and preterm labor with asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy, asymptomatic bacteriuria should be treated. CBCs should be obtained monthly to monitor for severe anemia. In addition to seeing their ...
both settings, public health efforts focused — very reasonably — on encouraging families with unvaccinated children to accept the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, the most effective way to protect those kids and to stop the outbreak. As any pediatrician knows, those kinds of discussions with vaccine...
Rubella (German measles) Varicella (chickenpox) Human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) HepatitisB Genital herpes(herpes simplex virus (HSV) Cytomegalovirus(CMV) Parvovirus B19 Infection with the parasiteToxoplasmais a risk for pregnant women. What is the effect of rubella (German measles) during pregnancy?
By trying to effectively decouple cause and effect—claiming that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, that measles isn’t caused by a virus and is instead a vitamin deficiency or caused by the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine itself—these movements discourage people from treating or trying to...
Most infectious agents can be effectively treated with specific antibiotics, with or without corticosteroid therapy, but visual recovery is highly variable and depends entirely on early diagnosis of the causative agent. This review article will provide an overview of common pathogens involved in ION ...
How well older patients are treated is generally considered a good test of a hospital's capabilities. Such patients have a greater chance of being admitted with one or more conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, that put them in a higher-risk category. We also incorporated ...