WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Associated Press - July 5, 2009 10:45 AM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has completed a new laboratory for research on infectious diseases...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | yesterday
A US based company has developed a new vaccine production method to combat infectious diseases now seen on a global scale - including the novel H1N1 virus and no-less deadly H5N1 avian flu - in a fraction of the time used by conventional methods. NEWARK, OH, July 04, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PhageVax has created a novel platform to produce vaccines against infectious diseases - from pathogen identification...
hot news (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Fee is head of the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. She has compiled these articles exclusively for EJournal USA. Different cultures around the world have made efforts to protect people from infectious diseases in hundreds of years with varying degrees of success. Shows that the Chinese practiced podningstidspunktet against smallpox as early...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Eight pupils on exchange programme from Kent school had been working with children in north-eastern city of Iasi Eight UK school pupils are in hospital in north-east Romania with swine flu, a British embassy official said today. Raluca Bragarea, the embassy communications officer, said the group had arrived in Romania on 25 June as part of an annual exchange programme and had been working with disabled...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Virginia native Col. Donald "Gray" Heppner Jr. has won the Kiwanis 2009 World Service Award. Heppner won the award for his work developing a malaria fighting vaccine. From the Richmond Times Dispatch, writer Christa Desrets gives us more background on Heppner's work. After studying infectious diseases at the University of Virginia and completing internal training at the University of Minnesota,...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The July issue of the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases examines whether President Obama is fulfilling his campaign promises to tackle HIV/AIDS abroad and domestically. The article states that Obama's recent appointments of "lauded experts," including Jeffrey Crowley as the new director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, indicate that the U.S.
Tell-It-Like-It-Is (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
CANCUN, Mexico — World health experts warned Thursday that the global swine flu outbreak that so far has sickened nearly 4,000 Texans and killed 17 is all but certain to worsen in the coming months. “We are really at the start of a global phenomenon,” said Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general of the World Health Organization. “This is a very humbling virus.” Hundreds...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The Globe and Mail has an article that says the H1N1 swine flu is hitting young people especially hard in Canada. The article says two-thirds of Canadians hospitalized and half of those who have died had no underlying health conditions whatsoever. Experts do not yet know why some healthy young people are ending up on ventilators. Experts do not yet understand why the new strain affects some healthy...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
OREGON CITY, Ore., July 2 (UPI) -- The parents of a 15-month-old Oregon girl overlooked or misunderstood several red flags that would have saved her life, a pediatrician testified Thursday. Raylene and Carl Brent Worthington did not question their daughter's failure to develop normally, Dr. Sayonara Mato, who specializes in infectious diseases at a Portland, Ore., hospital told Clackamas County Circuit...
Stories on Malawi (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The Wellcome Trust initiative will see the formation of seven new international consortiums that will focus on developing and sustaining high quality research into the health and wellbeing of African people. More than 50 institutions from 18 African countries will participate in the programme and lead on partnerships with scientists from Europe, the US and Australia. Africa is affected by some of the...
Waldenswimmer (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
After I finish Halberstam's majestic The Fifties , I think I'll read Kevin Starr's Golden Dreams , which covers California during the same era. It was my late, great cousin Jim Houston, writer and highly-practical philosopher, who taught me that when one's own times fail to satisfy, it's best to revert mentally to some earlier epoch when life seemed better. Jim went all the way back to the turn of...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The public was well-served today with the release of a report by the New York State Department of Health (DOH) about hospital-acquired infection rates at specific facilities in New York State. But more information is needed about how to correct these problems, such the high rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections identified in the report.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
A diverse international network has proposed to significantly increase the resources devoted to fighting tuberculosis, the second most deadly of the world's infectious diseases.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a microscale tool to help them understand the mechanical behavior of biofilms, slimy colonies of bacteria involved in most human infectious diseases. Most bacteria in nature take the form of biofilms. Bacteria are single-celled organisms, but they rarely live alone, said John Younger, associate chair for research in the Department of Emergency...
Technovangelist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
We spent four full days in Jiri plus the 2 full travel days there and back. I had been there 15 years ago and was surprised both at how much things had changed and how much things had stayed the same. Jiri is an amazing place 60 miles east of Kathmandu. It used to be on the route to Everest before helicopters took trekkers all the way to the mountain. The Swiss saw Jiri as a wonderful place to invest...
The 2 latest articles published by users on Infectious Diseases :
tanay2035 | 06/16/2009
Everyone's all abuzz with panic nowadays it seems. That's mostly because after SARS and bird flu, another new strain of virus has managed to rear its head. The H1N1 influenza virus, more popularly known as the swine flu , exploded on to the global scene last April via a large-scale infection in Mexico City . I think everyone's seen the images on CNN a thousand time. Surgical-masked Mexicans crowding...
aarkstore | 06/04/2009
This report is a detailed market and technology assessment and forecast of the products and technologies in the management of diseases and disorders of the spine. The report describes diseases and disorders of the spine, encompassing congenital disorders, inflammatory and infectious diseases; degenerative diseases; herniations, stenoses, myelopathies and other "mechanical" disorders of the spine; spinal...
Videos