FDA investigating infections tied to reprocessing urological endoscopes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week it is investigating a number of medical device reports of infections and potential contamination issues with reprocessing urological endoscopes. During Jan. 1, 2017, to Feb. 20, 2021, the FDA reportedly received more than 450 medical device reports of postprocedure patient infections or other possible contamination related to cystoscopes, ureteroscopes, and cystourethroscopes, […]

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Poland seems to have passed COVID-19 infections peak – minister

FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks wait in line at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine centre situated at a temporary hospital organised at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper PempelWARSAW (Reuters) – Poland seems to have passed a peak in the number of coronavirus infections, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday, adding that the country […]

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Toronto schools shutdown amid third wave of infections

Schools in Canada’s largest city will shut down Wednesday and move to online learning because of a third surge of coronavirus infections fueled by more-contagious virus variants. Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa said in a statement stronger measures are needed to reverse the surge. Ontario has seen seeing more than 3,000 new infections a day in […]

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US tops 30M coronavirus infections, JHU data shows

Surgeon warns of ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to COVID vaccine Dr. Hooman Norchashm tells ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ of several cases in which injection should be reconsidered The U.S. has surpassed a staggering milestone with more than 30 million coronavirus infections reported, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The country holds the most reported cases in the world, more than doubling the […]

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French average new COVID-19 cases at three-week low but variants watched

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s average count of new COVID-19 cases continued to fall on Thursday and the number of people hospitalised with the disease decreased for a third day running, but the country’s health minister warned about the threat posed by coronavirus variants.FILE PHOTO: Medical staff members in the Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19 patients at La Timone hospital in […]

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India’s virus cases cross 10 million as new infections dip

India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 10 million with new infections dipping to their lowest levels in three months, as the country prepares for a massive COVID-19 vaccination in the new year. Additional cases in the past 24 hours dropped to 25,152 from a peak of nearly 100,000 in mid-September. The epidemic has infected nearly 1% of India’s more than […]

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Health care workers’ COVID-19 infections driven mainly by community exposure

In a well-resourced health system with adequate PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), health care worker risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection was more strongly driven by community exposure than patient exposure early in the pandemic, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The study of 6,510 health care workers is the largest systematically collected cohort study of health care worker risk for SARS CoV-2 […]

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Study characterizes suspected COVID-19 infections in emergency departments in the UK

Among patients reporting to hospital emergency departments (EDs) with suspected COVID-19 infection, important differences in symptoms and outcome exist based on age, sex and ethnicity, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Steve Goodacre of the University of Sheffield, UK, and colleagues. Hospital EDs have played a crucial role during the COVID-19 […]

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Commonly used antibiotic shows promise for combating Zika infections

In 2015, hundreds of children were born with brain deformities resulting from a global outbreak of Zika virus infections. Recently, National Institutes of Health researchers used a variety of advanced drug screening techniques to test out more than 10,000 compounds in search of a cure. To their surprise, they found that the widely used antibiotic methacycline was effective at preventing […]

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