Needle stick injuries are a reality for people who regularly use needles, like nurses and lab workers. It can also happen if you handle trash, even if it’s not medical waste. According to the ...

[9] Despite the ongoing lack of randomized, placebo-controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of antibiotic prophylaxis for certain dental and nondental procedures, the AHA has ...

A pinched nerve occurs when there is pressure or force on an area of a nerve, causing it to send pain signals to the brain. Most cases are mild, and a person can often treat them at home. In this ...

Transitioning to infectious diseases, our new licensing agreement with GSK prophylactic vaccines continues to progress. In November, GSK initiated a combined Phase 1/2 study for seasonal influenza ...

Past, haemolytica infection in man is extremely rare. The case of bacterial endocarditis with perforation of a mitral-valve leaflet caused by this organism reported below is to our knowledge the ...

Introduction: Endocarditis is a life-threatening ... the bloodstream and impact the heart. Prophylactic antibiotics may occasionally be recommended before certain dental or surgical procedures to ...

The statement also includes 4 clinical scenarios frequently encountered by clinicians. BCNE is defined as infective endocarditis (IE) without positive blood cultures, and it occurs in scenarios ...

In patients with infective endocarditis, echocardiographic vegetation features, especially mobility of vegetation, predict risk for symptomatic embolism. Echocardiographic vegetation features can ...

and the elimination of gastrointestinal and genitourinary indications for prophylaxis. The complex 1997 American Heart Association (AHA) recommendations for preventing infective endocarditis have ...