Patients get viral infections: so, do vines

How do viral infections predispose patients to bacterial infections?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Bacterial sepsis is a leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for over 200,000 fatalities annually. Approximately half of bacterial sepsis cases occur following acute respiratory infections, and the lungs are the most common organs to fail. Notably, outbreaks of respiratory viral infections are associated with an increased incidence or severity of bacterial co-...

Studies on Avian Viral Infections in Iran

You only get so many heartbeats...

hese words, attributed apocryphally to Dr. Sam Levine, have een passed along through several generations of his “offpring.” As happened so many times, Dr. Levine’s vast and ncyclopedic clinical experience allowed him to anticipate and ccurately predict what subsequently would be proven in ell-done and exhaustive clinical trials. In this particular case, r. Levine correctly intuited that a low h...

Latent viral infections in critically ill patients

The herpesvirus family all cause latent infections in humans, and similar rates of infection, morbidity and mortality have also been reported in comparable patients with herpes simplex virus [2,3]. Nevertheless, although infection rates with latent herpesviruses appear high, the majority of seropositive patients do not suffer reactivation. Acquisition of herpesviruses in infancy results in triv...

Why So Many Seniors Get Swindled

Although decision-making abilities often decline as we get older, Natalie Denburg argues that we should not consider such deficits to be a part of “normal aging.” Nor are they likely signs of a dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. Denburg’s research suggests that some older adults experience flawed emotional responses that stem from abnormalities that develop in the brain’s prefrontal cortex. ...