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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Journal of Infectious Diseases has released a special edition, Global Rotavirus Surveillance: Preparing for the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccines. This special edition provides a significant contribution to the understanding of rotavirus disease burden and the impact of rotavirus vaccines, which have the potential to save an estimated 228,000 lives annually.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
# 3973 N-95 Respirator Surgical Facemask The N95 respirator versus surgical masks as protective gear for HCW ( Health Care Workers ) has been an ongoing controversy for months. Very briefly, for many years, surgical masks have been considered inferior ( practically non-existent ) protection for the wearer from respiratory viruses. N95 respirators have been considered the minimum `protective’...
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Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new vaccine trial is underway in Africa in an attempt to battle Malaria, a disease that not only kills one million people every year, but also makes 300 million seriously sick. If trial results come back positive, a worldwide vaccine could be available as soon as 2012. The LA Times: Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people—90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Infectious Diseases Prevention Experts Say Current Guidelines Are Not Supported By Science; Could Have Dangerous Consequences for Patients and Healthcare Workers
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Marines conduct a vehicle sweep to ensure there are no hidden improvised explosive devices during a security patrol through the Nawa district in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 28, 2009. U.S Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg From The Washington Times: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM), a developer of vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and a late-stage oncology company, announced today that an Institutional Review Board of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Johns Hopkins) has given clearance for the Company's first clinical study to proceed.
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Government Mess (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus. Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3 Trauma Hospital at Kandahar Air Field, told The Washington Times that Sgt. Robert David...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A preliminary report suggesting that N95 respirators -- filtering devices worn over the mouth and nose -- protect against swine flu better than surgical face masks seems to be incorrect, researchers revealed during a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced contract awards for up to 120,000 treatment courses of intravenous (IV) antiviral drugs to help treat hospitalized 2009 H1N1 influenza patients. Patients hospitalized with 2009 H1N1 influenza are evaluated to determine if antiviral drugs will be useful; some patients are not able to take the drugs that are currently available as pills...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The cumulative number of people infected with influenza, in most cases H1N1 swine flu, since early July reached an estimated 5.85 million as of Nov. 1 and is set to top the 6 million mark soon, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Friday. An estimated 1.54 million people infected with influenza visited medical facilities nationwide during the latest reporting week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 1,...
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University of Guelph News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Representatives of the Ontario government were at the University of Guelph today to celebrate a provincial investment of more than $12 million in a variety of research initiatives. The funding, which matches money provided earlier by the federal government, will be used as the final financial commitments for 21 U of G projects involving more than 200 researchers. The visit was part of a province-wide...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has renewed the contract to continue studying asthma in children living in lower-income, inner-city environments.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded approximately $208 million to two programs that support research to better understand the human immune response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, including those that may be introduced into a community through acts of bioterrorism.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment by health care workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.
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switbd | 10/19/2009
The fact that they eat a lot – and often – may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, showed that the elevated body temperature of mammals
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aarkstore | 09/30/2009
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), six infectious diseases—pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS—account for half of all premature deaths worldwide, killing mostly children and young adults. What’s more, threatening pandemics such as swine flu (H1N1 influenza A virus) are adding significant pressure to already strained healthcare budgets of governments...
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