Posts Tagged ‘infectious diseases’
1 in 10 skips hand washing in public bathrooms
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Only five percent of people who used the bathroom washed their hands long enough to kill the germs that can cause infections, according to a new study. Continue…
Monday, June 10, 2013 15:20 - 5 Comments
Health & Medicine - Mar 29, 2013 8:33 - 0 Comments
Too many HIV patients also have hepatitis
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — There should be stronger safeguards in place to prevent people with HIV from getting hepatitis, too, researchers argue. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 17, 2012 16:00 - 1 Comment
Cancer clues from new raccoon virus?
UC DAVIS (US) — Rare brain tumors found in raccoons may be linked to a previously unidentified virus and the findings could lead to a better understanding of how viruses cause cancer in people and other animals. (more…)
Top Stories - Nov 30, 2012 11:54 - 4 Comments
Homicide spreads like the flu
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Homicide moves through a community like an infectious disease, a finding that may help police track and even prevent murders. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 22, 2012 9:18 - 0 Comments
Germs in space: Keeping astronauts healthy
BROWN (US) — On a long spaceflight, it could be easy for microbes to get out of control. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 1, 2012 10:15 - 0 Comments
Public disease alerts may spread stigma
PENN STATE (US) — Public health messages can create stigmas that lead people to support isolation, forced treatment, and maps of infected people’s locations. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 26, 2012 15:12 - 3 Comments
Runny-nosed kids make your cold worse
U. ROCHESTER (US) — Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat, and cough, a new study shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 21, 2012 14:19 - 0 Comments
Easy policies let more kids go vaccine-free
EMORY (US) — From 2005 to 2011, non-medical exemptions from school-based vaccines increased at a heightened rate, report researchers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 19, 2012 10:18 - 1 Comment
Warmer climate may trouble world’s lungs
UC DAVIS/NYU (US) — Respiratory health experts say global climate change will result in more asthma, allergies, and infectious and cardiovascular diseases. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 16, 2012 10:05 - 4 Comments
To kill latent HIV, lure it into an ambush
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — AIDS experts have figured out a way to kill off the latent HIV that hides in infected T cells long after antiretroviral drugs suppress it to undetectable levels. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 2, 2012 16:20 - 0 Comments
To beat a virus, find its ‘pocket factor’
PURDUE (US) — New details about the structure of a virus that causes brain swelling and paralysis in children may lead to antiviral drugs. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 27, 2012 18:08 - 0 Comments
Rapid flu tests ease ERs, despite limits
MCGILL (CAN) — An analysis of 159 studies shows that rapid flu tests can be used to confirm the flu, but not to rule it out. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 17, 2012 15:11 - 0 Comments
To stop foot-and-mouth, track the cattle
U. ILLINOIS (US) — Surveillance and heartier animals could minimize losses if a foot-and-mouth outbreak were to strike Mexican cattle. (more…)
Top Stories - Feb 7, 2012 11:32 - 3 Comments
To battle disease, apes may need vaccines
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Researchers say infectious disease, like poaching and habitat loss, threatens the survival of African great apes. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 23, 2012 11:37 - 1 Comment
Common metal wipes out deadly toxin
CARNEGIE MELLON (US) — An element commonly found in nature might be a way to neutralize the potentially lethal effects of a compound known as Shiga toxin.. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 20, 2012 12:41 - 0 Comments
High-risk adults don’t get Hepatitis B vaccine
BROWN (US) — More than half of adults at the highest risk for hepatitis B remain unvaccinated—one reason that tens of thousands of people still contract the virus every year. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 27, 2011 11:00 - 0 Comments
Dengue virus hits harder in round two
UC BERKELEY (US) — One of the most vexing challenges in the battle against dengue virus is that getting infected once can put people at greater risk for a more severe infection down the road. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 26, 2011 10:20 - 3 Comments
Flu shots less effective for obese people
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — A flu shot may not be enough to protect overweight people from influenza. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 22, 2011 11:38 - 4 Comments
New tick-borne disease discovered
YALE U. (US) — Scientists have discovered a new tick-borne disease that may be infecting humans in the U.S. and elsewhere. (more…)
