Sentences with phrase «at higher infection»

«Fears of potentially blinding complication from Avastin eye injections overblown, says study: Insurance claims data hint at higher infection risk for Lucentis, a more expensive drug.»

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it will invest up to $ 140 million in Intarcia, in the hopes that its device can deliver prophylactic medicine — and help shield patients at high risk of infection from HIV.

The second infection that's also been on the rise is Syphilis, particularly amongst populations that are at higher risk to contract Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, such as young men who have sex with men or injection drug using adolescence.

Babies usually are at a higher risk of infection at about six months because they start exploring objects by putting them in their mouths.

Premature babies or those that had an infection or required oxygen at birth have a higher risk of developing trouble with their eyes.

Having your baby around too many people puts him or her at a high risk for catching an infection or virus.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

There is a much higher rate of infections to new moms and babies in hospitals than born at home.

Young infants are at a higher risk of dying from this infection than any other age group.

«Babies who were allowed to sleeping in a prone position with nasal congestion and other infections problem are 10x higher at risk compared to swaddling.»

In a later study, researchers found that the higher scores held at 30 months, and that the babies who received breast milk were also less likely to be hospitalized again because of respiratory infections.

Are at a higher risk of developing asthma, ear infections, pneumonia, sinus infections, bronchitis, croup and eye issues.

A child with a mild infection can have a high fever, while a child with a severe infection might have no fever at all.

All unvaccinated children and adolescents who are at high risk of serious infection should receive the vaccine.

In fact, hospitals are hot beds for disease and infection, so having a baby, with its virgin, fragile system in a hospital where it could come into contact with illness, could actually put the baby at higher risk for something negative to happen to the baby's health.

There are several factors that may put a pregnant woman at higher risk of a preterm birth, including a previous preterm birth, multiple pregnancies such as twins, triplets, etc, some chronic medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and infections.

Infants generally have low immunity to infections; theseinfections come with symptoms such asa high fever that is hardly noticeable at times hence the need for thermometers.

Any signs of infection — such as a fever higher than 100.4 F (38 C), severe pain in your abdomen, or redness, swelling and discharge at your incision site

Babies who use pacifiers may also be at a higher risk of developing middle ear infections.

This (and the lack of other factors) lead to the baby being at higher risk of illness and infection.

Increased awareness of the nutritional and medical benefits of breastfeeding, including reduced incidence of infection and allergic reaction, 1 — 9 has led to its endorsement by medical and professional groups10 — 12 and to substantial increases in the number of women choosing to breastfeed.13, 14 A study of 300 British children showed that children who consumed breast milk in the early weeks of life also had significantly higher IQ scores at 7.5 to 8 years on an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) than those who were not breastfed.15 The sample was made up of preterm infants fed breast milk or formula by tube.

People who are bitten by a blacklegged tick could be at higher risk of more than one infection.

«Instead of promoting infection, at higher concentrations, BX795 actually helped cells clear the infection.»

One of the studies, published in 2008, suggested that patients whose antiretroviral treatment was deferred until their CD4 cell counts were below 250 were at greater risk of opportunistic infection than those that received antiretroviral treatment when CD4 cell counts were higher than 350.

Dr Falsini said elderly patients may be at higher risk because they usually have pre-existing issues that can predispose to delirium such as dementia, visual and hearing impairments, depression, use of psychoactive drugs, infections, or electrolyte disturbances.

«Based on epidemiological studies, the 9vHPV vaccine could prevent approximately 90 percent of cervical cancer, 90 percent of HPV - related vulvar and vaginal cancer, 70 to 85 percent of high - grade cervical disease in females, and approximately 90 percent of HPV - related anal cancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at Moffitt.

The findings build on earlier research suggesting that the high - dose vaccine may be better at preventing influenza virus infections and other flu - related outcomes in seniors, including office visits and hospitalizations, compared to the standard - dose vaccine.

«We are pleased to have demonstrated such a potent and durable immune response to the vaccine,» said the study's lead author, Sita Awasthi, PhD, a research associate professor of Infectious Diseases at Penn. «If found effective in clinical trials, the vaccine will have a huge impact on reducing the overall prevalence of genital herpes infections and could reduce new HIV infections as well, especially in high - burden regions of sub-Saharan Africa.»

Up to 30 people at high risk of HIV infection will take part in the trial.

«This treatment effectively protected the plants from infection; even though the bacteria are more virulent at high temperatures, plants can fight them off if we give them the SA they can no longer make.»

«It is unknown what the physiological effects of the parasites are on the bats, but the high diversity of parasites as well as the high proportion of individuals that are infected with the parasites suggest that this may be yet another example of the unusually high tolerance of these flying mammals for pathogens,» said co-author Juliane Schaer, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.

about three times more likely to have infections when they arrive at hospital, or had high blood pressure before developing preeclampsia or had blood disorders involving clots or excessive bleeding.

The company has begun two safety trials in the US, in people at low risk of infection and in people at high risk, and says it has evidence that the vaccine is safe.

In some people, the thermostat is always set slightly higher, behaving as if they have a persistent low level infection — these people appear to be at a higher risk of developing depression and psychosis.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

Children with high everyday levels of a protein released into the blood in response to infection are at greater risk of developing depression and psychosis in adulthood, according to new research which suggests a role for the immune system in mental illness.

A study of Truvada in sub-Saharan African women at high risk of HIV infection, FEM - PrEP, in April ended early because no difference existed between participants receiving the pills or placebos.

These laws vary dramatically: some states impose penalties as high as $ 1,000 per day for hospitals that fail to comply, whereas others have almost no enforcement power, says Lisa McGiffert, manager of Consumer Union's StopHospitalInfections.Org, a project aimed at getting states to publish infection rates of hospitals and other health care facilities.

In what would be considered good news for many parents a new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston finds the rates of ear infections during a baby's first year have declined; the investigators suggested that higher rates of breastfeeding, use of vaccinations and lower rates of smoking may be the major contributors.

A companion study by several of the same researchers is now available online in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, which suggests that children with neurologic conditions are at higher risk for infections caused by ESBL - producing bacteria.

Furthermore, the number of new infections per number of people at risk was significantly higher in African countries than in non-African countries at 3.6 % and 0.3 %, respectively.

The authors, led by Professor Marian Knight from the University of Oxford, also found that the onset of severe sepsis is often very rapid, and women who have recently had an infection, such as a urine, genital tract or respiratory infection, are at particularly high risk of developing severe maternal sepsis.

The results were consistent throughout Africa, and among three distinctly different groups of women at high risk of HIV infection: pregnant women, sex workers and women who were initially HIV negative but had HIV - positive male partners.

Women living in world regions where HIV infection is common are at high risk of acquiring HIV infection during pregnancy and the postpartum period, according to a study by US researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Yale Cancer Center researchers have developed a vaccine strategy that reduces the risk of flu infections in cancer patients at highest risk for influenza.

In a different study Waghmare presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk factors that can drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vs.

«Using an approved flu vaccine in a novel dosing schedule yielded promising results for a group patients at high risk for infection,» Branagan said.

New research conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that higher levels of antibody against a different flu surface protein — neuraminidase (NA)-- were the better predictor of protection against flu infection and its unpleasant side effects.

Her team's next step will be to understand whether certain patients are at higher risk for getting infected with rhinovirus in the first place and to ask if there are other risk factors for pneumonia and other poor outcomes from the infection.

For example, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at most risk for HIV infection in the United States, yet within that subgroup, HIV seroprevalence is four times higher among black MSM than among white MSM, and virologic suppression is 50 percent lower, according to the authors.