Man determined to walk again after blood infection from dog licks
Even after his hands and feet were amputated due to a rare infection from dogs, Manteufel’s horrific ordeal hasn’t changed his love of them.
Even after his hands and feet were amputated due to a rare infection from dogs, Manteufel’s horrific ordeal hasn’t changed his love of them.
Women who have undiagnosed sexually transmitted infections may be more likely to experience negative PMS.
Taking certain rheumatoid arthritis drugs during pregnancy does not increase the risk of serious infections in children, as had been suspected.
Researchers found that the children of participants in the marijuana and tobacco group had a significantly higher rate of ER visits.
Vaccines provide better immunity than natural infections.
Those whose mothers had taken antibiotics while pregnant had up to a 20 percent higher risk of hospitalization from infection.
One of my embarrassing moments as a young doctor at the Manila Doctor’s Hospital decades ago, was when I consulted our ENT (ear, nose and throat) specialist, Dr. Felix Nolasco, for some aching pain in my left ear. After taking a quick look in my ear canal with his otoscope instrument, he asked me, “Are you using cotton-tipped applicators to clean your ears?”
They appear as stripes of blisters that wrap around the area of infection, commonly on the sides of the torso. And they’re contagious, too.
Largely preventable or treatable infections with viruses, bacteria and parasites cause about two million new cancer cases and 1.5 million cancer deaths each year, said a study published Wednesday.
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