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Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Category Archives: Infections
COVID 19 Treatments
Posted by on March 21, 2020
COVID 19 Outpatient Clinics
Posted by on March 21, 2020
This article is addressed to healthcare workers in the outpatient setting.
COVID-19 Guidelines for outpatient clinics.
The article is for providers, office managers, and nurses.
Focus is prevention (treatments are considered elsewhere).
Most of the info is from CDC.gov
COVID 19 Treatments
Posted by on March 21, 2020
This article is for providers. Read more of this post
COVID-19
Posted by on March 18, 2020
This is the main summary article. Click on links to see more details. Read more of this post
A New Biomarker for Bacterial Meningitis
Posted by on April 20, 2011
Patients with early bacterial meningitis might not have CSF pleocytosis. Heparin-binding protein is a promising new biomarker that might assist with early identification of bacterial meningitis in adults. HBP might play the same role in bacterial meningitis that D-dimer does in venous thromboembolic disease. Pending larger studies, an HBP level >20 ng/mL should prompt empirical therapy for bacterial meningitis while awaiting results of CSF culture and immunoassays.
Heparin-Binding Protein: A New Biomarker for Bacterial Meningitis – Emergency Medicine.
Nine Dead In Ala. After IV Treatment
Posted by on March 31, 2011
A pharmacy that produces intravenous solutions is the potential common source for an outbreak of blood infections that has sickened 19 people at six hospitals. The products have been recalled.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/03/30/134984222/nine-dead-in-ala-after-iv-treatment?ft=1&f=1001
Superbug Spreads in Southern California
Posted by on March 26, 2011
Roughly 350 cases of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, or CRKP, were reported in Los Angeles County between June and December of 2010, according to a study from the L.A. County Department of Public Health to be presented April 3 in Dallas at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America…
Here is the link: http://fluentnews.com/s/26598629
What Should Physicians Wear?
Posted by on March 9, 2011
Evidence that physician white coats and other long-sleeved garments can be contaminated with bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has led British health authorities to ban such attire for clinicians. To examine the appropriateness of this action, researchers conducted a prospective trial in which they assessed bacterial contamination of physicians\\’ clothing.
NYTimes: For Cold Virus, Zinc May Edge Out Even Chicken Soup
Posted by on February 16, 2011
Scientists haven’t discovered a cure for the common cold, but researchers now say zinc may be the next best thing.
Diet News
- Junk food may impair our deep sleep
- Low-flavanol diet drives age-related memory loss, large study finds
- Brain-belly connection: Gut health may influence likelihood of developing Alzheimer's
- The feeling of hunger itself may slow aging in flies
- More structure, fewer screens makes for healthier kids in the school holidays
- Kombucha to kimchi: Which fermented foods are best for your brain?
- Non-biological factors and social determinants of health important in women's CVD risk assessment
- Bariatric surgery may reverse diabetes complications for people with obesity
- Researchers leverage cell self-destruction to treat brain tumors
- Exposure therapy to feared foods may help kids with eating disorders
Health News
- Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths
- Slow start to New York's legal pot market leaves farmers holding the bag
- Texas bans gender-affirming care for minors after governor signs bill
- Maker of anti-addiction drug Suboxone reaches $102.5 million settlement over antitrust claims
- Some trans people turn to crowdfunding to leave Florida after anti-LGBTQ+ laws
- Germany reports labor shortage in one-sixth of professions
- Some trans people turn to crowdfunding to leave Florida after anti-LGBTQ+ laws
- Border Patrol wouldn't review the medical file of a girl with a heart condition before she died
- College student accused of setting fire to Wyoming's only abortion clinic pleads not guilty
- Idaho hospitals working to resume full operations after cyberattack
Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP 