Urinary Tract Infection News
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Deployed dad can watch infant son in hospital 24-7 thanks to webcam technology
Despite being overseas and thousands of miles away from his family, a deployed member of the U.S. Air Force was still able to check in on his son while the newborn was in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) thanks to modern technology. "He loved it," said Mary Girtman, wife to Staff
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CDC focused on finding nightmare bacteria and preventing their spread: Report
A CDC report documents a finding of highly-resistant nightmare bacteria – and the new focused efforts to prevent their spread. Germs can cause infections. Germs can spread. Germs can battle back against antibiotics . And germs can share their weapons with other germs. On Tuesday, the Centers for
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Many pregnant women are being prescribed potentially dangerous antibiotics: CDC
CDC researchers studied almost 500,000 privately insured pregnant women in 2014 and found that about 70 percent of women in the first trimester received antibiotics for UTIs.
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Many pregnant women are being prescribed potentially dangerous antibiotics: CDC
Early pregnancy can come with its fair share of challenges: nausea, exhaustion and urinary tract infections (UTIs). About 8 percent of pregnant women get UTIs, and many more are found to have bacteria in their urine without symptoms, so-called “asymptomatic bacteriuria,” which can later lead to
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Family says 12-year-old girl died after being misdiagnosed with the flu
A seemingly vibrant 12-year-old California girl, who loved to sing and make her family laugh, suddenly died after her mother said doctors misdiagnosed an infection that kills more than 250,000 Americans annually as the flu . Alyssa Alcaraz died on Dec. 17 at Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia,
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Warning of multistate E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 17 people in 13 states were diagnosed with E. coli infections that may be tied to romaine lettuce.
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Comedy icon Jerry Lewis dies at 91
Iconic comedian and actor Jerry Lewis has died, his publicist confirmed to ABC News. He was 91. “Sadly I can confirm that today the world lost one of the most significant human beings of the 20th century,” his rep Mark Rozzano said. Lewis was born Joseph Levitch on March 19, 1926 in Newark, New
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Disability rights advocates join the fight to stop the Senate health care bill
ABC News' Emily Rau speaks to disability rights advocates who were arrested while protesting outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office.
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Weighing the risks of antibiotics in early pregnancy
When pregnant women become ill with infections, many may fear taking antibiotics could endanger the pregnancy . Studies of pregnant women and antibiotics, which are very limited and usually small in size, have shown conflicting evidence about the risks. To better understand whether antibiotics
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NJ Attorney General Files Against Doctor After Woman Dies From 'Adverse Effects of Drugs'
The New Jersey Attorney General is seeking to temporary suspend the license of a doctor who allegedly prescribed the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl off-label to three patients, according to a court filing. One of the three patients, according to the court filing, is a 32-year-old woman who