Urinary Tract Infection

HHS recently announced its Healthy People 2030 initiative to address what the agency called the “most critical public health priorities and challenges” in the United States over the next decade.

UTIs account for 1.1 million pediatric office visits annually and are a significant clinical syndrome in childhood. UTI is typically caused by a bacterial pathogen. The infection involves the lower urinary tract (ie, urethritis, cystitis) or the upper urinary tract (ie, pyelonephritis). Prompt treatment of pyelonephritis is important to prevent renal scarring and associated sequela such as hypertension and end-stage renal disease.

The rate of hospitalizations due to serious infection in patients with vasculitis nearly doubled over a 19-year period, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

A device that can be mounted on an everyday toilet could be used to help detect multiple diseases, including certain cancers, chronic kidney disease and irritable bowel syndrome, according to research published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Hospital-acquired conditions, such as surgical site infection and urinary tract infection, worsened among adult patients undergoing spinal deformity surgery who had an increased frailty score, based on findings from a retrospective review study.

Survival after a first ischemic stroke has improved from 1991 to 2015, according to data presented in a late-breaking science session at the International Stroke Conference.

PHOENIX — At the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting, here, investigator and cardiologist Philip J. Devereaux, MD, said accelerated surgery that occurred within 6 hours of a low-energy hip fracture was not associated with any lower risk of mortality or any fewer major complications than standard hip fracture care, which involved surgery performed 24 hours after the fracture.

Study findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics suggest that following current guidelines for the diagnosis of UTI in children may result in many children with a UTI going untreated, researchers said.

The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging surveyed a national sample of U.S. adults about their opinions and experiences with antibiotics and found that nearly half expected antibiotic prescriptions at doctor visits and more than half have taken leftover antibiotics without talking to a health care professional.

News that the European Union granted conditional approval of Merck’s investigational Ebola vaccine, Ervebo — which has been used effectively in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — was the top story in infectious disease last week.