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Doctor says diagnosis of Niagara woman was ‘wrong’ but defends treatment 1 day before she died
The physician who treated Heather Winterstein the day before she died in hospital from a severe reaction to bacterial ...
On the day she died of sepsis, Heather Winterstein shouldn't have been placed in the emergency room waiting area at the St.
The inquest into the death of a 24-year-old woman who died of sepsis in a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital in 2021 has heard ...
A long-awaited coroner's inquest into the 2021 death of Heather Winterstein at a hospital in St. Catharines, Ont., got underway on Monday, with Winterstein's mother telling the five-person jury about ...
Community members gathered Thursday in Fort Erie, Ont., to pay tribute to Heather Winterstein, a young woman whose death ...
Key PointsPeter H Gilligan, Ph.D., D(ABMM) emeritus and F(AAM), shares lessons that 35 years of experience taught him about leading a clinical ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing threat to human, animal, and environmental health, necessitating integrated surveillance systems to effectively address this challenge. Globally, many ...
Serotype M1 group A Streptococcus strains cause epidemic waves of human infections long thought to be mono- or pauciclonal. The gene encoding an extracellular group A Streptococcus protein ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in more severe cases, meningitis or sepsis. It shares the human respiratory ...
Postinfectious glomerulonephritis is an immunologic response of the kidney to infection, commonly triggered by streptococci, although many other organisms can cause the condition. In recent decades, ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are about 20,000 to 27,000 cases of invasive group A strep each year in the United States, which results in about 1,800 to ...
Pneumonia (the lung infection) is not contagious, but the bacteria and viruses that cause it can be spread from person to person. For example, the flu is contagious and can lead to pneumonia in some ...
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