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Bacteremia is an invasion of the bloodstream by bacteria. Bacteremia occurs when bacteria enter the bloodstream.
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Osteomyelitis refers to a bone infection, almost always caused by a bacteria. Over time, the result can be destruction of the bone itself.
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Osteomyelitis is an acute or chronic bone infection, usually caused by bacteria.
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Detailed information on osteomyelitis, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on osteomyelitis, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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If you're not quite sure what's up with AIDS these days, don't feel alone. Misconceptions and falsehoods concerning AIDS and HIV abound.
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New drug treatments can delay the effects of AIDS and are helping patients live longer. But the reality is that no medicine can cure AIDS or the virus that causes it, HIV. Once inside the body, HIV destroys immune system cells, making it difficult to fight off illness.
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A person with HIV can look and feel perfectly healthy. But that person can give HIV to others as soon as he or she is infected with the virus.
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What's true and what's not when it comes to AIDS? Here's a look at some common myths surrounding HIV infection and AIDS.
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is the final, life-threatening stage of infection with any of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1, its many subtypes, or HIV-2), which are transmitted from person to person sexually (including via anal, oral, and vaginal intercourse, both heterosexually and homosexually), through contact with blood (mainly via equipment used to inject illicit drugs and, rarely, via medical uses of blood), and perinatally (from mother to fetus or newborn during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, or after birth through breast-feeding). ORIGIN AND HISTORY HIV-1 and HIV-2 both appear to have been transmitted to humans from primates in Central and West Africa, probably to hunters or processors of carcasses of primates consumed as food (referred to as " bush meat " ).
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infecting helper T cells of the immune system. The most common serotype, HIV-1, is distributed worldwide, while HIV-2 is primarily confined to West Africa.
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was identified in 1983 by the French scientist Luc Montagier and his staff at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Ever since that discovery, scientists have been searching for ways to treat those infected with HIV, and to produce a vaccine to prevent its spread.
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) during pregnancy
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Detailed information on HIV and AIDS, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Approximately 11,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States.
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Spinal cord trauma is damage to the spinal cord that results from direct injury to the cord itself, or from indirect injury from damage to the bones, soft tissues, and blood vessels surrounding the spinal cord.
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Spinal Cord InjuryWARNINGDo not move a person with a spinal injury unless it is necessary to save his or her life. Call 911 and wait for help.The spinal cord is a long bundle of nerve fibers that extends from the base of the skull to below the wai...
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Detailed information on acute spinal cord injury, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on acute spinal cord injury, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Drugs Used to Treat Spinal Cord InjuryWhen Dr. Wise Young began his studies, spinal injuries were considered untreatable.
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as mobility or feeling. The spinal cord does not have to be severed in order for a loss of function to occur.
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Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States.
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Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States.
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Spinal Cord Injury: Treatment and RehabilitationAfter emergency treatment in the ER, a person with a spinal cord injury is likely to be admitted to the hospital. Or, he or she may be transferred to a special spinal cord injury center.TreatmentThre...
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Detailed information on acute spinal cord injury, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and spinal cord injury rehabilitation
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Researchers examining patients with spinal cord injuries found that those with the most severe physical impairments also had better overall states of mental health.
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Lumbar puncture (LP) is the technique of using a needle to withdraw cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the spinal canal. CSF is the clear, watery liquid that protects the central nervous system from injury and cushions it from the surrounding bone structure.
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Detailed information on spinal tap, also called lumbar puncture
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Lumbar PunctureA lumbar puncture is also called aspinal tap.A lumbar puncture may be used to look for problems in your brain, spinal cord, and related structures.What Is a Lumbar Puncture?A needle is used to remove and test cerebrospinal(spinal)fl...
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The reasons for back surgery typically vary with a patient's age.
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Some back pain cannot be relieved by surgery, but even if it is an option it should be weighed carefully. A prudent course of action is to wait several weeks after symptoms begin to see if they improve on their own.
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Pneumonia in an immunocompromised host describes a lung infection that occurs in a person whose ability to fight infection is greatly impaired.
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Discharge Instructions for Immunocompromised PatientsYou have either undergone a procedure or been diagnosed with an illness that has made you "immunocompromised." This means that your immune system is very weak, making it difficult to fight off i...
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