Yeast Infection News
- Recalls of pet food, supplements over salmonella concerns Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 10:56PMThree pet-product manufacturers -- Feline's Pride, Merrick Pet Care and United Pet Group -- have recently issued or expanded voluntary recalls of some of their products over concerns about possible salmonella contamination.
- How to get rid of ear mites | A simple ear mite treatment Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 7:53PMRead this interesting readersdigest.com.au article
- Divigel(R) (Estradiol Gel) 0.1% Is One Of A Newer Generation Of Bioidentical Estrogens That Is FDA-Approved For Relief ... Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 8:43AMWomen looking for the best method to manage common symptoms of menopause, like hot flashes and night sweats, may not have access to credible information, especially when it comes to understanding their estrogen therapy options. In fact, there are an array of celebrities and authors who are simply not qualified to give medical advice about managing menopause, yet they dominate the internet and ...
- Depression overlooked in patients with hepatitis C; compromising HCV therapy Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 5:29PMResearchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland (the NORDynamIC project group) have observed that depressive symptoms in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are commonly overlooked in routine clinical interviews, and that treatment-induced depression compromises the outcome of HCV therapy. A second U.S. study found that patients with chronic infection had lower (work ...
- Don't sweat sweating Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 6:55AMWe all do it, some way more than others. It makes us stinky. And sticky. And for about one million of us in Canada, it interferes with daily life.[...]
- 'Miracle' Regina baby is nearly 18 years old Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 12:06PMRobyn Bien entered the world at one pound, 12 ounces, but he was no lightweight when fighting for his life.
- How to treat a yeast infection diaper rash? Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 9:31PMKnow the answer? Share your knowledge and answer this Diaper Rash question.
- It's a battle of the bugs as Dalgety star recovers from life-threatening illness Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 11:11AMVICTORIA CUP winner Bettors Strike is recovering from a life-threatening bacterial infection in his stomach. The illness saw trainer Cran Dalgety cut short a Thailand holiday earlier this month.
- Mark Hyman, MD: 3 Simple Steps to Eliminate Heartburn and Acid Reflux Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 10:45AMIn this week's blog, I'll explain why, but more importantly, I will outline a simple 3-step approach that will help you prevent acid reflux and heartburn by treating its underlying causes.
- Health Q&A: shingles Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 2:20AMBritain's leading health and wellbeing specialists answer your questions
- Sextra: What’s Up With the Fishy Odor? Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 2:50PMBossip I have a question. My girl is the best thing that ever happened to me but lately she’s been smelling foul. The odor is fishy and overwhelming. We’ve been together for about 6 months and I’ve never known her to smell this way so it caught me off guard when I caught a whiff [...]
- Young? Female? Avoid being misdiagnosed Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 6:35PMOverworked and sleep-deprived, doctors are making more medical mistakes than ever before. Young women are most at risk because they're assumed healthy and they're less likely to question a diagnosis. Sleep deprivation - Sleep disorder - Medicine - Health - Conditions and Diseases
- Afinitor more than doubles progression-free survival in advanced pancreatic NET: Study Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 5:23AMNovartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that results of a Phase III study show Afinitor® (everolimus) tablets plus best supportive care (BSC) more than doubled progression-free survival, or time without tumor growth, versus placebo plus BSC in patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NET). The study, RADIANT-3, was presented at the 12th World Congress on ...
- Leslie Goldman: UTIs, Baldness, Broken Ankles, and Other Fashion Emergencies Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 6:30PMFashion-induced anorexia isn't the only health risk faced by runway models. New photos of Naomi Campbell revealed a significant bald patch above her left ear...
- Homeless woman is charged in animal abuse case at casino Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 3:34PM25 cats and 2 dogs were rescued from a locked car inside Ameristar Casino's garage
- From The Mediaite Vault: Larry King Takes On Gangsters (And Loses) In 1961 Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 1:03PMWelcome to the installment installment of our summer series in which we head back into the Mediaite Vault (*cough* the Internet *cough*) to find some choice moments showing our favorite media personalities back when their journalism hit a little less hard. Consider it meeting the press before they were the press. This time we take a look at a very young Larry King as he takes on some gangsters ...
- Shots on horizon for Alzheimer's, AIDS, herpes Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 4:46AMMalaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. Many could be on the market in five years or less. AIDS - Health - Tuberculosis - Alzheimer's disease - Conditions and Diseases
- BIND Biosciences announces $12.4 million Series C-1 financing Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 8:09AMBIND Biosciences, Inc. (BIND), a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing best in class therapeutics based on its proprietary targeted nanotechnology platform, announced today that it has secured a $12.4 Million Series C-1 financing. This financing included all of BIND's current investors (including Polaris Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, NanoDimension and ...
- Doctor, Please Carve Out the Time to Heal Thyself Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 4:31PMSometimes, it’s time for a doctor to become the patient.
- Halozyme presents new data from Ultrafast Insulin development program at 70th ADA Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 6:53AMHalozyme Therapeutics, Inc. today announced Phase 2 results demonstrating that the subcutaneous coinjection of rHuPH20 (recombinant human hyaluronidase, PH20) with lispro significantly improves postprandial hyperglycemia, reduces hypoglycemia, and accelerates the absorption of mealtime insulin in patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Vitamin B12 deficiency can be dangerous Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 12:04PMDr. Harvey Cohen practices geriatric medicine and internal medicine in Rancho Cucamonga. He answers questions about Vitamin B12 for this week's Focus on Five
- Anoxia-induced suspended animation helps survive hypothermia Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 7:46AMHow is it that some people who apparently freeze to death, with no heart rate or respiration for extended periods, can be brought back to life with no long-term negative health consequences? New findings from the laboratory of cell biologist Mark B. Roth, Ph.D., of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, may help explain the mechanics behind this widely documented phenomenon.
- Witness: Defendant was a regular hotel's guest Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 4:57AMIN the ongoing trial of an alleged pimp and a call girl, where the duo were arrested last year for prostitution-related activities, the manager and the receptionist of the Riverview Hotel told the court that Lim Sai Ming was a regular guest at the hotel and was given a discounted rate a "majority of the time".
- 'Blurring' making it harder to tell stores apart Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 11:30AM I recently read that CVS is doubling its food sections in thousands of stores as part of a new strategy to grab market share from supermarkets. Retail consultants call this "channel blurring."
- Colorado mental-health counselor charged with murdering infant son Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 3:19AMIt took three attempts over nearly 12 hours for Stephanie Rochester to smother the infant son she feared was autistic, according to an arrest affidavit unsealed Monday.
- Protein lets brain repair damage from multiple sclerosis, other disorders Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:09PMA protein that helps build the brain in infants and children may aid efforts to restore damage from multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.
- HPV-positive tumor status indicates better survival in patients with oropharyngeal cancer Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:09PMOropharyngeal cancer patients whose tumors in the upper part of the throat test positively for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have better overall survival than patients with HPV-negative disease, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Simple eye test measures damage from multiple sclerosis, researchers find Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:08PMJune 8, 2010 - A quick, painless eye measurement shows promise as a way to diagnose multiple sclerosis in its very early stages, and to track the effectiveness of treatments, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a multicenter study.
- Childhood hardships associated with pregnancy troubles in adulthood Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 4:39PMChildhood hardships may be related to future pregnancy outcomes, in part through their association with smoking during pregnancy and adult socioeconomic position, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
- AdvanDx To Offer BinaxNOW® PBP2a Test For Rapid Detection Of PBP2a In Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 7:16AMAdvanDx announced that it will offer the BinaxNOW® PBP2a test from Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (Waltham, MA) to customers in the United States. The test provides rapid detection of the penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP2a) present in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) directly from S. aureus positive blood cultures. In clinical studies, the test demonstrated 97.1 ...
- New Step In Protein Production Could Explain Cellular Response To Stress Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 1:31PMUK scientists found a new step in how cells make protein which could explain how they respond to stress, such as starvation and being attacked by viruses. Drs Graham Pavitt and Martin Jennings from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, described their findings in a paper published online on 20 May in the journal Nature. Making proteins is a major activity of cells and ...
- FDA Clears Quest's Simplexa H1N1 Assay; Test Runs on New 3M Integrated Cycler Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 11:39AMQuest Diagnostics' Simplexa Influenza A 2009 H1N1 assay has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA, making it the first test of its kind to receive marketing approval outside the agency's time-limited emergency-use authorization program.
- AdvanDx to Offer BinaxNOW® PBP2a Test for Rapid Detection of PBP2a in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 10:43AMWOBURN, Mass., May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvanDx today announced that it will offer the BinaxNOW® PBP2a test from Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (Waltham, MA) to customers in the United States.
- Strenthening our Daughters' Self-Images Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 9:58AMAs strong as women have become in today's world, we still have young girls, teen girls, so fail to see their own self-worth. How can we strengthen their self-image?
- AdvanDx to Offer BinaxNOW® PBP2a Test for Rapid Detection of PBP2a in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 9:08AMRapid detection of penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP2a) found in MRSA read more
- AdvanDx to Offer BinaxNOW® PBP2a Test for Rapid Detection of PBP2a in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 9:00AMAdvanDx today announced that it will offer the BinaxNOW® PBP2a test from Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. to customers in the United States.  The test provides rapid detection of the penicillin-binding protein 2a present in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from S. aureus positive blood cultures.  In clinical studies, the test demonstrated 97.1% positive agreement and ...
- Vendors serve up a platter of poison Saturday, May 22, 2010 @ 5:32PMA stroll on the Bandra Bandstand is never complete without a plate of spicy sev puri and a bite into a buttery vada pav always seems to satiate a Mumbaikar's hunger as he boards a crowded train back home in the evening.
- Social media empowering parents with complaints against Pampers Saturday, May 22, 2010 @ 12:00AMWhen it comes to our children, we want nothing but the best for them. But what if a product we thought was safe was possibly making them very sick? Hundreds of parents are using social media to connect with each other over one such situation dealing with Pampers diapers.
- Screen to see if you are 'clean' Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 10:50PMNow you can perform that first key step in screening for vaginal infections in the comfort of your own home.
- What's Inside Triple Paste Diaper Cream? Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 8:51PMRaw cholesterol, a food additive from the atomic age, and some waxy yellow gunk are among the ingredients protecting baby's precious bum.
- Gossip Girl Recap: ‘I Didn’t Get High, I Got a Yeast Infection’ Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 9:30AMOrdinarily, the characters on Gossip Girl thrive on deception. Plotting, secrets, and withheld tidbits of information are what keeps their hair full, their skin luminous, and their tits buoyant. (What, did you think it was the waffles?) But on last night's episode, it was as if everyone had been plumped up with truth serum instead. People were coming clean about their darkest secrets all over ...
- Fighting Fungal Infections With Bacteria Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 7:26AMA bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists writing in the May issue of Microbiology. The research could be a step towards new strategies to prevent hospital-acquired infections associated with medical implants. Researchers from University College Cork in Ireland studied the interaction between the bacterium ...
- Study finds standard heel-stick test ineffective at identifying CMV infection in babies Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 2:56AMA national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good at identifying cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children.
- New research boosts yeast product’s immune health credentials Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 12:55PMIn the latest study, individuals with high stress lifestyles taking Wellmune WGP for 12 weeks reported a 58% reduction in upper respiratory tract infection symptoms, compared with those taking a placebo.
- Lessons of a brief life Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 3:25AMIsaac Woodmansee lived 16 days.
- Not that sweet after all Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 2:48AMTHE body digests carbohydrates by converting them into simple sugar. Taking too much of refined carbohydrates will give rise to weight (fat) gain.
- Study could provide new strategies to prevent hospital-acquired infections Monday, May 3, 2010 @ 2:26AMA bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists writing in the May issue of Microbiology. The research could be a step towards new strategies to prevent hospital-acquired infections associated with medical implants.
- Bacteria fighting fungal infections Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 12:54PMWashington, May 2 : Irish scientists have said that a bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections.
- Fighting Fungal Infections With Bacteria Sunday, May 2, 2010 @ 11:18AMA bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists writing in the May issue of Microbiology.
- GlobeImmune GI-5005 HCV Product Candidate Improves Sustained Virologic Response by 10 Percent, Demonstrating Potential ... Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 1:11PMFinal Phase 2b Data for GI-5005 in Treatment-Naive Patients Presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver
