Some strains of Staphylococcus aureus produce a potent toxin called Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL). PVL-Staphylococcus aureus (PVL-SA) usually causes skin and soft tissue infections, including boils and abcesses. More rarely it can cause serious diseases such as necrotising haemorrhagic pneumonia, which has been associated with a high mortality rate. "Although several other ...
The research, published April 1, 2008 in the medical journal Psychiatric Services, suggests that symptoms traditionally associated with suicide are less common among some ethnic groups, and cannot be relied upon for predicting suicide. Led by Kam Bhui, Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Barts and The London School of ...
Two experts debate the issue in the British Medical Journal. Increasing numbers of female graduates will create a major shortfall in primary care provision and may also affect education, research, and development, argues Brian McKinstry, senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Evidence is growing, he says, to demonstrate the negative ...
They suggest that building local clinical research and vaccine production capacity in developing countries will increase the global availability of affordable vaccines. Delay in delivering vaccines in low and middle income countries results in more than two million deaths a year. Many of the reasons offered for the unequal access to vaccines ...
Follow-up of children who survive cancer should be individually tailored and may not be necessary for all, they argue. Previous studies have shown that at least 62% of child survivors have some late side effects as a result of their curative treatment. But this data is based on different treatments than ...
Researchers have long believed that abnormal function in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) region of the brain contributes to the impulsive behavior and lack of control over drinking that characterize alcohol dependence, but how this occurred was unknown. This study used rodents to examine the effects of alcohol on three ...
"Women have historically been underrepresented in alcohol research, in part because alcohol-related problems are more prevalent in men, but also because the early notions about alcohol-use disorders were narrower and more focused on stereotypically male traits than they are today," explained Carolyn E. Sartor, postdoctoral research fellow at Washington University ...
Yet, too often, such discussions do not occur, even when treating infections and other conditions related to the piercings, due to healthcare providers’ uneasiness over this increasingly common form of body art. An estimated 30 to 50% of youth ages 18 to 23 have piercings in places other than in ...
"This study will involve 48 healthy volunteers who will receive either two or three immunizations and who will be followed to assess the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine," explains Lindsey R. Baden, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at BWH and Harvard Medical School and Protocol Chair for the study. The ...
Scientists have long known that many Asians carry variants of genes that help regulate alcohol metabolism. Some of those genetic variants can make people feel uncomfortable, sometimes even ill, when drinking small amounts of alcohol. As a result of the prevalence of this gene, many, but not all, communities in ...