ALLMedicine™ Acute Poliomyelitis Center

Jun 28th, 2021 - Acute poliomyelitis is now extremely rare in the United States. Worldwide there are still sporadic outbreaks, which are typically treated with acute inoculation programs. Although polio has effectively been eradicated, the full scope of the diseas...

Jun 25th, 2020 - Objective: While osteoporotic fractures are reported in up to 40% of adults with post-poliomyelitis syndrome (PPS), clinical guidelines regarding bone mineral density (BMD) and indications for treatment are scarce. We investigated the characterist...

May 15th, 2020 - Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) is a murine betacoronavirus (m-CoV) that causes a wide range of diseases in mice and rats, including hepatitis, enteritis, respiratory diseases, and encephalomyelitis in the central nervous system (CNS). MHV infection i...

May 15th, 2020 - Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a neurological disease that affects polio survivors at least 15 years after the initial polio infection. The description of PPS is attributed to Jean-Martin Charcot in 1875 but was only widely recognized in the early 1...

Oct 30th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Acute poliomyelitis is a disease of the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem caused by poliovirus. Flaccid asymmetric weakness and muscle atrophy are the hallmarks of its clinical manifestations, due to...

May 15th, 2020 - Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a neurological disease that affects polio survivors at least 15 years after the initial polio infection. The description of PPS is attributed to Jean-Martin Charcot in 1875 but was only widely recognized in the early 1...

May 15th, 2019 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello and welcome. I'm Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape.* Many of you may know that I had the great privilege of being the editor-in-chief of JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical...

Jun 25th, 2013 - UPDATED June 25, 2013 — The Japanese government withdrew its recommendation to use human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines in girls last week, citing concerns from the public about adverse effects, according to news reports. The announcement is in sta...

Jun 25th, 2013 - UPDATED June 25, 2013 — The Japanese government withdrew its recommendation to use human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines in girls last week, citing concerns from the public about adverse effects, according to news reports. The announcement is in sta...

Nov 14th, 2007 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that the historical comparison in this study reinforces the benefits of immunization. Note that the reductions in disease rates and disease-specific death rates were high for most recommended vaccines. ...

VAIL, COLO. — Tick paralysis is often misdiagnosed—with potentially dire consequences—as one of the other diseases that cause an acute ascending paralysis with preserved mental status.