Infectious Diseases

Game designed to help Canadians learn about healthy sexuality, contraception and sexually transmitted infections.

PHILADELPHIA | Induction immunosuppressive therapy appears to be associated with a lower risk of graft loss, even in low-risk kidney transplant recipients who do not receive corticosteroid maintenance therapy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia.

The adjuvant-containing vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza appears to be safe, but fewer than one-third of kidney transplant recipients showed seroprotective antibody titres following vaccination. Furthermore, the patients who received their transplants less than a year before their flu shot and those on triple immunosuppression showed the poorest response.

HPV infection strongly associated with anal cancer.

Product indicated for management of chronic pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in patients with cystic fibrosis, age six years or older.

Drug the second imiquimod product to be marketed by Graceway for external genital warts.