Infectious Disease Alert articles from February 2003

Infectious Disease Alert archives from February 2003

ICAAC 2002/IDSA 2002.(Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Infectious Disease Society of America)
February 1, 2003... Editor's Note: The following summaries represent a selection of papers from among those presented at the 42nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 27-30, 2002 in San Diego and the 40th annual...

Stroke reduction in older hypertensives with abnormal nocturnal blood pressure dipping. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care[TM]).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Source: Hishide Y, et al. Am J Hypertens. 2002;15:844-850. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN adverse cardiovascular events and blood pressure (BP) is direct and linear. Numerous prospective randomized trials indicate that reduction of BP produces a...

Primary prevention of hypertension. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care[TM]).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Source: Whelton PK, et al. JAMA. 2002;288:1882-1888. ACCORDING TO JNC VI REPORTING, As many as 43 million adults in America have hypertension (HTN), defined as blood pressure > 140/90. Although treatment with a variety of agents has been...

Effect of aggressive screening and treatment on prostate cancer mortality. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care[TM]).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Source: Lu-Yao G, et al. BMJ. 2002;325:740-743. THERE REMAINS A GREAT DEAL OF heated debate about the appropriate use of PSA screening amongst asymptomatic men. Although mortality for prostate cancer has declined since the mid-1990s, it...

Diuretics, mortality, and nonrecovery of renal function in acute renal failure. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care[TM]).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Source: Mehta RL, et al. JAMA. 2002;288:2547-2553. DIURETICS ARE COMMONLY USED IN the setting of acute renal failure (ARF), based upon premises that they will reduce volume in extracellular volume overload and may convert oliguric ARF to...

Nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of DM-2 in women. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care[TM]).(type 2 diabetes mellitus)
February 1, 2003... Source: Jiang R, et al. JAMA. 2002;288:2554-2560. RECENT TRIALS HAVE CONFIRMED that both pharmacologic treatment acarbose or metformin) and lifestyle intervention (weight loss and exercise) may prevent onset of type 2 diabetes (DM-2) in...

Optimal diets for prevention of CHD. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care[TM]).(coronary heart disease)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Source: Hu FB, Willett WC. JAMA. 2002;288:2569-2578. THE CLASSIC DIET-HEART HYPOTHESIS postulates that dietary saturated fat and cholesterol are causally associated with coronary heart disease (CHD). Though the evidence for this hypothesis...

FDA issues 'Black Box' warning based on WHI study. (Pharmacology Watch).(Women's Health Initiative)
February 1, 2003... The FDA has mandated a "Black Box" warning for all estrogen and estrogen/progestin products for use by postmenopausal women. The new warnings are based on analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that was published July...

ICAAC 2002/IDSA 2002.(papers from the 42nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 2002)(papers from the 40th annual Infectious Disease Society of America meeting, October 2002)
February 15, 2003... Editor's Note: The following summaries represent a selection of papers from among those presented at the 42nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 27-30, 2002, in San Diego and the 40th annual...

FluMist recommended for FDA approval. (Updates).(Brief Article)
February 15, 2003... Source: BioWorld Online. December 18, 2002. www.bioworld.com AN ADVISORY PANEL HAS RECOMmended FDA approval of FluMist, the first intranasal influenza vaccine, for people 5-49 years of age. In double-blind, placebo-controlled studies,...

Britain extends Pet Travel to United States. (Updates).(Brief Article)
February 15, 2003... Source: ProMED-mail post, November 19, 20, and 21, 2002; www.promedmail.org. GREAT BRITAIN HAS ANNOUNCED the extension of the popular Pet Travel Scheme to the United States and Canada. This is the first time that cats and dogs from the...

Nipah confirmed in Bangladesh. (Updates).(Brief Article)
February 15, 2003... Source: Eurosurveillance Weekly. September 19, 2002. INVESTIGATORS NOW BELIEVE THAT an outbreak of severe encephalitic like illness that occurred in the remote village of Meherpur, Bangladesh, in April-May 2001 was due to Nipah virus or a...