NICE Guidelines on prophylaxis against infective endocarditis 2015 Meghna Singhania9 Feb 2016 2:29 PM ISTIn 2008 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published a guideline (CG64) on prophylaxis against infective endocarditis. The 2015...
GOI Guidelines For Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis supriya kashyap kashyap23 Aug 2016 3:54 PM ISTIn 2016 National Centre For Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India came...
Carboprost is better for postpartum haemorrhage prophylaxis Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli5 Oct 2017 10:10 AM ISTThe most accepted definition of postpartum haemorrhage is any bleeding from or into the genital tract following delivery of the baby, excessive enough...
Acute kidney failure with VTE proves difficult to treat Anjali Nimesh Nimesh26 Oct 2017 7:03 PM ISTResearchers from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center conducted a prospective, observational study to assess the impact that weight and...
New HIV guideline outlines strategies for prevention in high-risk people Anjali Nimesh Nimesh28 Nov 2017 7:05 PM ISTA new Canadian guideline outlines how new biomedical strategies to prevent HIV infection can best be used in high-risk populations both before and...
Male circumcision & antiviral drugs cause reduction in HIV infection rate Anjali Nimesh Nimesh1 Dec 2017 7:10 PM ISTA steep drop in the local incidence of new HIV infections accompanied the rollout of a U.S.-funded anti-HIV program in a large East-African...
Doxycycline single dose for STIs after unsafe sex Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli12 Dec 2017 8:30 PM ISTIncreased rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have been reported among men who have sex with men.Prof Jean-Michel Molina and associates...
FDA clears dosing software for hemophilia A Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli27 Dec 2017 7:00 PM ISTThe FDA grants 510(k) clearance for Shire plc's myPKFit for ADVATE [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant)], free web-based pharmacokinetic dosing...
Breakthrough : HIV treatment pill once a week Anjali Nimesh Nimesh10 Jan 2018 8:30 PM ISTResearchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a capsule that can deliver a week's worth of HIV drugs in a single dose. This...
WHO Guidelines for Post-exposure prophylaxis of Rabies Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli2 Feb 2018 7:02 PM ISTPost-exposure prophylaxis means the treatment of a bite victim that is started immediately after exposure to rabies in order to prevent rabies from...
WHO Guidelines for management of cryptococcal disease in HIV-infected patients Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli6 March 2018 7:01 PM ISTWHO has released its new Guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention and management of cryptococcal disease in HIV-infected adults, adolescents and...
TDF doesn't prevent mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B : NEJM Anjali Nimesh Nimesh10 March 2018 7:10 PM ISTHepatitis B virus causes serious, long-term health issues, such as liver disease and cancer, and can spread from mother-to-child during delivery....
