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...Between swabbing a strep-ridden throat and assessing a jaundiced newborn, I was asked by my nurse how to counsel a parent who was upset by the sleeping habits of her six year old. For the last week, the child had refused to go to bed without his mom sleeping next to him and often awoke during the night, screaming for his mother to " kill it! " No amount of bribes had worked, and his lack of sleeping was affecting his days in kindergarten. He refused to go outside for recess and was withdrawn from his peers. After prescribing penicillin...
...reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, a study released yesterday by members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients with sore throats. The study centered on the frequency of administering strep throat antibiotic to children and the frequency of testing for strep. According to one of the authors, Grace M. Lee ’93, an instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding to the “notion that as a general community...
...everyone with strep...
...some international specialists aren't convinced. Strep. suis has never caused an outbreak anywhere near as large as the one in Sichuan, and the high mortality rate and severe symptoms?which include bleeding under the skin in some cases?seem to be entirely new. "I've never before seen an outbreak of this type," says Dr. Thomas Alexander, the retired University of Cambridge veterinary scientist who first identified the bacteria in humans. "It just doesn't sound like Strep." Dr. Marcelo Gottschalk of the University of Montreal, the world's top expert on Strep. suis, says China needs help analyzing...
...World Health Organization (WHO) says it's happy with China's cooperation?and WHO Beijing spokesman Roy Wadia notes that the country isn't required to notify anyone about Strep. suis infections, much less share information. The Ministry of Health says it has the situation under control, although suspicions about China's openness on disease outbreaks, dating back to the 2003 SARS crisis, linger. "The Chinese have got to be transparent," says Robert Webster, a bird-flu expert who has worked with China in the past. If not, neighboring countries?and the world?could pay the price...