Influenza Virus Symptoms

Antifungal creams are topical medications used to treat fungal skin infections such as athlete's foot, ringworm, and jock itch. Anyone can develop these fungal skin infections, and they are typically easy to treat with over-the-counter (OTC) or prescription-strength antifungal creams. This article will explore the different antifungal creams and how they work to treat fungal infections. Osobystist / Getty Images How It Works Antifungal medications work by killing or stopping the spread of the fungus that causes fungal infections. Topical Cream Antifungal creams are topical creams applied directly to and absorbed by the skin rather than ingested. Types There are four main classes of antifungal medications, each targeting a particular kind of fungus. The four classes are: Azoles Echinocandins Flucytosine Polyenes These antifungal medications may be given in oral, gel, cream, or another form, depending on ...

By Reuters Fact Check 7 Min Read A former Pfizer scientist turned anti-vax proponent has made unfounded claims about the novel coronavirus in videos of a speech he gave that have been posted on social media. Mike Yeadon, a former vice president of Pfizer, who recently featured in a Reuters Special Report (here), was filmed giving a speech making claims about asymptomatic infection, virus variants, the vaccine and its risks to pregnant women. The claims were viewed thousands of times on Facebook (here , here and here), and this check will examine those which are most damaging. ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION In his speech, Yeadon says his "favourite lie" is that people can transmit the virus without any symptoms, adding: "I would say it's somewhere between rare and doesn't happen." But a report from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in March this year estimated that 50% of COVID-19 transmission happens before people develop sympto...

Our body contains a host of microorganisms that are not harmful to us. However, when they grow out of control, they can make us ill. One example is the Candida yeast .  Candida is found both on our skin and inside our body, in the mouth, throat, gut, and vaginal area. It is usually harmless. However, when it grows uncontrollably, especially in babies, it causes yeast infections. Yeast often proliferates in warm and moist areas. In infants, yeast infections most likely occur in the diaper area, but they can also occur in other skin folds around the armpit, neck, or mouth. When yeast overgrows and causes a diaper rash, it's called a yeast diaper rash. It generally causes a red rash with a slightly raised border. If you notice your baby has a yeast diaper rash, there are some home remedies and over-the-counter treatments you can use to help your baby. Some cases of baby yeast infections can be treated at home, but others may require a healthcare prov...

Readers discuss how new abortion laws will affect treatment of miscarriages and life-threatening pregnancies. Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press To the Editor: Re "Why Is the Right Forcing Women Who Miscarry to Suffer?," by Michelle Goldberg (column, July 19): They don't tell you this in medical school, but to be an OB-GYN physician is to know heartache up close and personal, over and over again. I have been a practicing physician in Portland, Ore., for the last 37 years. My colleagues span the political spectrum, but almost everyone I have known has put the interest of the mother's life before that of the embryo or fetus. And if for reasons of conscience they could not, they would find another provider who could. With the Dobbs decision, my specialty has been thrown into disarray. Miscarriage is one of the most common conditions we treat, as it occurs in about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies. These new laws in anti-choice states just ban termination of pregnan...

Leon E. Rosenberg, a renowned physician and geneticist who served as dean of the Yale School of Medicine, oversaw research at the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and later chronicled his lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder, writing about the condition in an effort to destigmatize mental illness, died July 22 at his home in Lawrenceville, N.J. He was 89. The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, Diane Drobnis Rosenberg. He had squamous cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. When Dr. Rosenberg decided to specialize in human genetics in the early 1960s, motivated by his detective-like experience diagnosing rare hereditary disorders in children, the field scarcely existed. It was generally considered niche, a minor part of medicine — hardly worth pursuing for an ambitious young physician-scientist. "Medical genetics? There is no such field!" a Yale University nephrologist told him. Yet Dr. Rosenberg went on to become a leading figure in what is now a sprawling field ...

After physician pay stalled during the pandemic, salaries are back on the rise. The latest report from Merritt Hawkins, a Dallas-based physician search and recruiting firm owned by AMN Healthcare, found that pay was up year-over-year for 14 of the tracked specialties, while only three went down. The 2022  Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives  found that the demand for advanced practitioners like nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse anesthetists was up 18 percent from the previous year, while the demand for primary care physicians was down 18 percent from the year before. These trends reflect the growth of the consumerization of healthcare away from the office model and to more convenient care settings like urgent care centers, retail clinics, and telemedicine visits. These clinics are more likely to be staffed by nurse practitioners or physician assistants. In addition to the increase in advanced practitioners, specia...

When Alix Mellor fell ill with COVID, she cycled through the full gambit of symptoms: coughing throughout the night, soaring temperatures and unforgiving physical fatigue.  But it was the thing she couldn't feel that really made her worry. Days into the infection and 34 weeks pregnant, she noticed her baby was uncharacteristically still.  "I called the midwives and they said to come into the hospital and they did some fetal monitoring to make sure the baby is OK," the Melbourne mother says. "It was in my mind that it's not just about me, it's about the baby." It was the second time in three weeks the Melbourne mother had found herself at the hospital with a respiratory illness. The first was with a nasty bout of influenza which saw her hospitalised for four days with a "really high pulse rate".   Women who test positive for COVID while pregnant have a higher risk of hospitalisation and venti...

Pulmonary chest conference is a multidisciplinary team (MDT) for the discussion of collective decisions focused on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with lung cancer. Lung cancer MDTs involve combinations of the following sub-specialties: a pulmonologist, interventional pulmonologist, medical and radiation oncologists, thoracic surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, and specialist nurse practitioners. The MDT allows for ease of communication between specialists for discussions regarding selection of additional testing and treatment and individualizing the patient plan of care. 1. Thoracic Surgery – Surgical biopsies (Mediastinoscopy) and surgical treatments Our thoracic surgical team is globally, regionally and locally recognized for their expertise in treating simple and complex thoracic and esophageal conditions. Our surgeons and providers offer medical knowledge, technical expertise, and compassion needed to manage thoracic surgical care. At the VA, our priority is trea...

Self-reported data from nearly 1 million Americans show an 8% to 11% higher rate of mostly mild systemic adverse events after simultaneous seasonal flu vaccine and mRNA COVID-19 booster (third) doses than with the COVID-19 booster alone. In the study, published today in JAMA Network Open , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 Response Team and Emory University analyzed rates of systemic adverse events among 981,099 Americans aged 12 years and older in the week after either simultaneous flu and COVID-19 booster doses or the booster alone from Sep 22, 2021, to May 1, 2022. Volunteers responded to at least one health survey through the CDC's smartphone-based v-safe monitoring system during the study period. The authors noted that current clinical CDC guidance states that COVID-19 vaccines may be given without regard to timing of other vaccines, including during the same vaccination visit. Authorization of COVID-19 vaccine boosters in the United States coincide...

Flu vaccine generated with a novel platform, using animal cell culture rather than egg, appeared to have good protection for children, a clinical trial showed. Among kids ages 2 and up, the IIV4c vaccine had 54.6% efficacy (95% CI 45.7-62.1) in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza compared with a non-influenza vaccine as a stand-in for placebo (incidence 7.8% vs 16.2%). Adverse events were similar between groups, and efficacy was similar across age groups and prior influenza vaccination status, reported Alexandre C. Fortanier, PhD, of Seqirus Clinical Development in Amsterdam, and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine . These findings extended the evidence for efficacy seen in a prior trial with the cell-culture-derived trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in adults, they noted. The cell-based IIV4c vaccine gained expanded FDA approval on October 15 for use down to age 6 months under the same Flucelvax Quadrivalent name as the conventional version using st...