Reports
The following list of reports reflects the latest in findings and outcomes in medical research as presented at major medical meetings and published peer-reviewed medical journals. In this section you can view reports from important congresses as well as summaries of some recently published journal articles. Please let us know if you have a particular area of interest you would like to see covered.
PHYSICIAN PERSPECTIVE - Viewpoint based on presentations from the 49th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Progress in the Treatment of Drug-resistant Nosocomial Pneumonia
Boston, Massachusetts / October 20-23, 2011
Reviewed and edited by: Ethan Rubinstein, MD, LLBH.E. Sellers Research Chair in Infectious DiseasesHead, Section of Infectious DiseasesDepartment of Internal MedicineUniversity of ManitobaWinnipeg, Manitoba IntroductionOver the past...
PRIORITY PRESS - 49th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Other Contemporary Issues in Antifungal Therapy
Boston, Massachusetts / October 20-23, 2011
Boston - Fungal infections have become more frequent and now represent the fourth most common source of bloodstream infection, causing substantial morbidity and mortality and driving up health resources and costs. In an effort to maximize...
PRIORITY PRESS - 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
Treating Complicated MRSA in Hospitalized Patients: Comparing IDSA Guidelines with New Data
Chicago, Illinois / September 17-20, 2011
Chicago - In new evidence-based Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines for the management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), multiple antibiotic regimens received an A-I designation for one or more of...
PRIORITY PRESS - 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Emphasized in the Context of Life-threatening Infections
Chicago, Illinois / September 17-20, 2011
Chicago - Prophylactic and empirical therapy with first-line antifungal agents is becoming increasingly dependent on therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). The efficacy relationship between drug exposure and cure, particularly in the context of...
PRIORITY PRESS - 17th Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS)
Simplifying Immunosuppression for Liver Transplant Recipients: A Lifelong Commitment to Optimize Patient and Graft Survival
Valencia, Spain / June 22-25, 2011
Valencia - Following organ transplantation, anti-rejection drug efficacy is critical to optimal patient and graft survival but so, too, are tolerability and ease of administration. The calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) have a long track record...
PRIORITY PRESS - 88th Canadian Paediatric Society Annual Conference
Appropriate Antibiotic Use: Lessons Learned for Control of Resistance in Children
Québec City, Québec / June 15-18, 2011
Québec City - Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to the effective treatment of common paediatric infections. There are numerous mechanisms by which bacteria acquire resistance to different antibiotics. Bacteria can also transfer and...
MEDICAL FRONTIERS - 29th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
Extended Protection Against Serious Infections: Meningococcal B Disease and Influenza
The Hague, The Netherlands / June 7-11, 2011
Medical Editor: Dr. Julie Frère, Montreal, Québec Whether it manifests as sepsis or meningitis, invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is well known to physicians who treat children. Recognizing the infection before it becomes...
JOURNAL CLUB - HIV/AIDS
New Guidelines to Identify Appropriate Use of CCR5 Inhibitors in HIV/AIDS
May 2011
Editorial Review Sharon L. Walmsley, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Director, HIV Clinical Research, University Health Network, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto,...
PRIORITY PRESS - EUROGIN 2011 European Research Organization on Genital Infection and Neoplasia Congress
Reducing the Burden of HPV Disease Through Successful Vaccine Uptake
Lisbon, Portugal / May 8-11, 2011
Three years into the most successful adolescent vaccination program ever launched in Australia, a marked decline in genital warts (GWs) continues to be observed among vaccine-eligible Australian women, researchers reported during the...