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A recent JAMA article proposing a different way of assessing hospitals' sepsis care was filled with technical arguments, but for me contained a powerful "between the lines" message. I read it and immediately thought, "Could this have saved Brad from having parts of both arms and legs amputated?" Sepsis, known colloquially as "blood poisoning," is distressingly common and deeply awful. It's a life-threatening condition that can happen when the body overreacts to an infection, leading to tissue damage, organ failure and even death. At least 1.7 million Americans contract sepsis each year, and 350,000­ – about one in five – die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Amputations to save a sepsis patient's limbs or life happen on average an astonishing 38 times each day, according to the Sepsis Alliance, and the condition's inpatient and follow-up costs make it the single most expensive medical condition. This h...

January 23, 2023 From the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Illinois: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – A woman from Caseyville admitted to cashing more than $128,000 in her deceased mother's Social Security benefits in a U.S. District Court on Monday. Darlene L. Rogers, 72, pled guilty to one count of Theft of Government Funds. "Concealing a relative's death from the Government in order to keep receiving the relative's Social Security benefits constitutes felony theft," said U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe. "Individuals tempted to do this face going to federal prison." "Ms. Rogers knowingly committed fraud by stealing Social Security retirement benefits that were intended for her deceased mother," said Gail S. Ennis, Inspector General for the Social Security Administration (SSA). "I want to thank the U.S. Attorney's Office for ...

One in 9 Americans ages 65 and older had Alzheimer's disease in 2022, and countless others were indirectly affected as caregivers, health care providers, and taxpayers. There is currently no cure — available treatments primarily focus on prevention by encouraging protective factors, such as exercise and a healthy diet, and reducing aggravating factors, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. One of these aggravating factors is viral infections. Researchers have identified that certain viruses, such as herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1, which causes cold sores), varicella zoster virus (VZV, which causes chickenpox and shingles), and SARS-CoV-2 (which causes Covid-19), can lead to a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia following infection. Figuring out how and when these viruses contribute to disease could help scientists develop new therapies to prevent dementia. However, researchers have been unable to consistently detect suspect viruses in the brains of people w...

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A kidney infection, called pyelonephritis , can sometimes be confused with a urinary tract infection, but the diseases are different. A kidney infection can be a complication of a urinary tract infection. Some common symptoms of a kidney infection are pain with urination, back pain (particularly on one side), and chills or fever. This article covers kidney infection symptoms and how they differ from those of urinary tract infections. This article also explores how to recognize a kidney infection in young children and older people, and it will discuss kidney infection complications. pashapixel / Getty Images Frequent Symptoms Sometimes people confuse a urinary tract infection with a kidney infection. To help understand why, it's helpful to know a little about anatomy. The kidneys are connected to the bladder through the urinary tubular system. Urinary tract infections (bladder infections) are common, particularly in people with a va...

With a general election just around the corner, political parties are now competing to woo voters via the popular welfare card scheme. Academics, however, warn that this scheme has already failed to tackle poverty or improve Thais' overall living standard, and is likely to remain ineffective unless reformed. "If the welfare card is so good, why is the number of people living below the poverty line rising?" asked Kritsada Theerakosonphong, a Silapakorn University lecturer who researches social and state welfare in Thailand. Launched six years ago, the scheme offers people aged over 18 who earn no more than 100,000 baht per year various types of state welfare. For instance, people in this income group are eligible for a subsidy of a few hundred baht for their household bills, and another 500 baht in public transport allowance. Its first year saw only 11.46 million people register for the scheme. However, when the government invited applications for the scheme this yea...

Background Pneumonia is one of the life-threatening infections of the lung parenchyma characterized by acute onset of symptoms like cough, pleuritic chest pain, fever, sputum production, and shortness of breath alone or in combination with variable degree of physical (crepitation, bronchial breath sound, effusion sign., etc), and radiologic findings (consolidation, infiltrations, effusion, etc). 1 Pneumonia can be classified in different ways: based on the origin of the site of patient, exposure to the infecting agent, it can be classified as community acquired or hospital acquired. The second way of classification is by using etiology and can be categorized as bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic. Using the anatomy of the affected lung parts, it is possible to classify as lobar, interstitial, or bronchial. Taking clinical presentation in to account, it can be also categorized as typical or atypical, mild (walking pneumonia), or severe. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a p...

Abstract Maternal nutrition during pregnancy can induce epigenetic alterations in the fetal genome, such as changes in DNA methylation. It remains unclear whether these epigenetic alterations due to changes in maternal nutrition are transitory or persist over time. Here, we hypothesized that maternal methionine supplementation during preconception and early pregnancy could alter the fetal epigenome, and some of these alterations could persist throughout different developmental stages of the offspring. Beef cows were randomly assigned to either a control or a methionine-rich diet from − 30 to + 90 d, relative to the beginning of the breeding season. The methylome of loin muscle from the same bull calves (n = 10 per maternal diet) at 30 and 200 days of age were evaluated using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. Notably, a total of 28,310 cytosines showed persistent methylation differences over time between maternal diets (q-value < 0.10, methylation change > 20%). ...