MRSA :: No reliable risk factors found for CA-MRSA
Loren Miller, M.D., M.P.H. has found no reliable epidemiological or clinical risk factors that could distinguish patients with CA-MRSA infection from patients with CA-MSSA infection. “What this means,” says Dr. Miller, “is that the average Joe or Jane can get CA-MRSA.”
In a continuing effort to improve the [...]
Hospital :: Half a million hospital admissions avoidable
A new report released by the University of Adelaide’s Public Health Information Development Unit shows that almost 9% of hospital admissions in Australia should have been avoided, with highest rates among the oldest and most disadvantaged Australians.
The Atlas of Avoidable Hospitalisations in Australia: ambulatory care-sensitive conditions examines hospitalisations [...]
Hidradenitis :: What is hidradenitis suppurativa, hydradenitis or HS
Hidradenitis suppurativa or HS is a poorly studied skin disease that affects areas bearing apocrine sweat glands and hair follicles; such as the underarms, groin and buttocks, and under the breasts in women.
The disease manifests as clusters of chronic abscesses, often as large as baseballs, that are [...]
Heel pain – causes & homoeopathic treatment
Heel pain is a very common problem in present era. A number of patients knock at the door of Doctors daily for heel pain only. There are so many drugs under Homoeopathy for the same and very frequent failures are there in treating heel pain, and consequently the patient [...]
Erythema Multiforme and Homoeopathy
Erythema multiforme is a skin disorder resulting from an allergic reaction.
Alternate Names: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, Lyell?s Syndrome
Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Stevens-Johnson syndrome has similar skin lesions with the additional involvement of at least two mucous membranes, and fever. The appearance of the mucosal lesion is erythema and edema, which progresses to erosions and [...]
Diabetes :: Topical honey as a treatment for diabetic ulcers
Complications from a 2002 car accident left Hurlburt, a borderline diabetic, with recurring cellulitis and staph infections. One of those infections developed into a troublesome open sore that, despite the use of oral antibiotics, continued to fester for nearly eight months.
Then Hurlburt’s physician, Jennifer Eddy of [...]
Diabetes :: Diabetic great toe – Arsenic Album
Mr. A.H.Q., aged 70 years, came with the great toe amputation at South Africa of his right foot with the H/O Cardiac By-pass Surgery. The Cardiac by-pass Surgery was done as preparation for the amputation of the great toes and finally go for B/K amputation. In fact the [...]
Diabetes :: Diabetic gangrenous foot – Sulphuric Acid, Arsenic Album
Mr. J.M. from East Africa came to me with post surgical large wound of the right foot. The First metatarsal and second metatarsal bone?s head being exposed and infected. The third toe being gangrenous (totally black) and the surrounding skin with thick gangrenous margin. The third [...]
Cancer :: Oncolytics Biotech Inc. reports positive interim results of UK phase Ia/Ib trials
Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (“Oncolytics”) (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced that an oral presentation covering interim results from a U.K. Phase Ia/Ib combination REOLYSIN® and radiation clinical trial for patients with advanced or metastatic cancers is scheduled to be presented at the National Cancer Research [...]
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