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Cellulitis is a common bacterial skin infection caused by bacteria known as group A Streptococcus (group A strep) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) . These bacteria are typically found on the skin and in the nose and throat of healthy individuals. Although cellulitis is not contagious, it can affect anyone. Certain skin injuries (cuts, burns, piercings, insect bites) and skin conditions, such as shingles (a viral skin condition), eczema (an allergic skin condition), or athlete's foot (a fungal skin infection), allow bacteria to enter the skin, thus increasing your risk of developing cellulitis. Many people develop cellulitis when bacteria enter the skin through lacerations (deep cuts or tears in the skin) or surgical wounds. This allows cellulitis to develop anywhere in the body, but it typically affects the arms and legs. This article discusses the transmission, risk factors, and treatments of cellulitis. Sasi Ponchaisang / EyeEm / G...

Highlights for buspirone Buspirone oral tablet is available as a generic drug. It's not available as a brand-name drug. Buspirone comes only as a tablet you take by mouth. Buspirone is used to relieve anxiety. Mental alertness warning: You're at increased risk of being drowsy and less alert while taking buspirone. Use caution while driving a car or using machinery until you know how this medication affects you Benzodiazepine withdrawal reactions warning: If you've been taking a benzodiazepine drug (such as clonazepam, alprazolam, or lorazepam) for anxiety long term (a month or longer), talk with your doctor. They will likely have you slowly stop taking the benzodiazepine drug before you start taking buspirone. Or, your doctor may slowly decrease your dosage of the benzodiazepine while increasing your dosage of buspirone over several weeks. If your current benzodiazepine medication is stopped suddenly and replaced with buspirone, you may have withdrawal reactions. These ma...

Aspirin and ibuprofen contain different active ingredients — whereas aspirin is made with salicylic acid, ibuprofen is made with propionic acid.  However, both aspirin and ibuprofen can be used to treat pain caused by inflammation or injury, headaches, fevers, arthritis, and menstrual cramps. People at risk of cardiovascular disease may want to avoid ibuprofen, as it may increase your risk of heart troubles.  This article was medically reviewed by Jason R. McKnight, MD, MS, a family medicine physician and clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine.  If you've taken an over-the-counter pain reliever before, you've likely had aspirin or ibuprofen. These are both very common nonsteroidal anti-inflamm...

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"In order to reduce the rate of resistance spreading, we have to be really good stewards of this drug," says Prudhomme O'Meara, who has led a malaria research program in western Kenya for more than a decade. "And the best way to do that is to make sure that everyone gets a parasitological test before they take the drug, and that people who have a test then follow the results of the test." The conditional pricing experiment is underway in 40 shops in two counties in western Kenya, with a target of reaching 6,800 people, and another pilot has recently been launched in Nigeria. Prudhomme O'Meara hopes the pilots will yield evidence that convinces public health officials in both countries and beyond to allow more rapid testing at private clinics. Jeremiah Laktabai, MBChB, MMed, a co-investigator on the project in Western Kenya, says early results of the pilot show improved access to testing and more targeted use of ACTs. But influencing human behavior is...

Abstract Knowledge about contagiousness is key to accurate management of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Epidemiological studies suggest that in addition to transmission through droplets, aerogenic SARS-CoV-2 transmission contributes to the spread of infection. However, the presence of virus in exhaled air has not yet been sufficiently demonstrated. In pandemic situations low tech disposable and user-friendly bedside devices are required, while commercially available samplers are unsuitable for application in patients with respiratory distress. We included 49 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and used a disposable modular breath sampler to measure SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in exhaled air samples and compared these to SARS-CoV-2 RNA load of combined nasopharyngeal throat swabs and saliva. Exhaled air sampling using the modular breath sampler has proven feasible in a clinical COVID-19 setting and demonstrated viral detection in 25% of the patients. ...