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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
An influential Lords Committee have today reported that a new and potentially deadly infectious disease emerges somewhere in the world every year and it is vital that there is more investment in international surveillance if pandemics are to be avoided. The House’s Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs) Committee report Diseases Know No Frontiers follows a six-month inquiry [...]
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Cape Times (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Basic hygiene is enough to reduce infectious diseases in densely populated areas - particularly among children under five - a hygiene promotion ...
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Cape Times (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Basic hygiene is enough to reduce infectious diseases in densely-populated areas - particularly among children under five - states a ...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
A way to turn off one gene at a time has earned acceptance in biology laboratories over the last decade. Doctors envision the technique, called RNA interference, as a tool to treat a variety of diseases if it can be adapted to humans. Emory University researchers have discovered that antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones can make RNA interference more effective in the laboratory and reduce potential...
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Ph articles (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
More needs to subsist done to protect against outbreaks of infectious diseases, a Lords sound says. The House of Lords Intergovernmental Organisations Committee said there was poor coordination betwixt international organisations and governments. It said improvements in surveillance and response systems had to be made to. It comes as experts warn a flu pandemic is long overdue with some suggesting...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Viruses achieve their definition of success when they can thrive without killing their host. Now, biologists Pamela Bjorkman and Zhiru Yang of the California Institute of Technology have uncovered how one such virus, prevalent in humans, evolved over time to hide from the immune system.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers described in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like.
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Get Ready For Flu (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Ever heard the old saying "cleanliness is next to saintliness?" As it turns out, cleanliness is also key to healthiness, especially when it comes to infectious diseases. By following good hygiene practices, disinfecting our homes and safely disposing of waste, we can all help fight the spread of infectious disease, according to a new fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services....
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Some King County public health clinics may have to shut their doors next year and programs to stop the spread of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis could be curtailed because of a budget shortage, county officials said this morning.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Rib-X" or the "Company"), a development-stage company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections, announced the initiation of a Phase 2 clinical trial for an intravenous form of antibiotic compound RX-3341 in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSIs). The safety and efficacy...
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Wired Science (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Rising asthma rates may be partly explained by bacterial imbalances in our guts. In a study published yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers showed that Heliobacter pylori, an intestinal microbe that co-evolved with humans, appears to protect children...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Disease-causing microbes like the food-borne bacterium Listeria monocytogenes specialize in invading and replicating inside their animal hosts' own cells, making them particularly tricky to defeat. Now, a new study led by biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, has identified a molecular alarm system in which the intracellular pathogen sends out signals that kick the immune response into...
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Complexity digest 2008.03 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Screenshot of the HealthMap System (http://www.healthmap.org/) Summary Points - Valuable information about infectious diseases is found in Web-accessible information sources such as discussion forums, mailing lists, government Web sites, and news outlets. - Web-based electronic information sources can play an important role in early event detection and support situational awareness by... PLOS Medicine...
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rixonology.org (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
********************************************* A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases Date: Wed 9 Jul 2008 Source: Turkish Daily News, Dogan News Agency report [edited] On Mon 7 Jul 2008, 3 people were pronounced dead at hospitals in the provinces of Bursa, Canakkale, and Samsun, taking the death toll from tick bites to 37 in the past 2 months....
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Zen Mischief (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Apparently Measles is now endemic in the UK. Well now there's a surprise -- I thought it always had been! But according to an item the other day on ProMED Mail (the mailing list of the International Society for Infectious Diseases ) which is interested mostly in emerging diseases, Measles had become a rarity but is once again endemic. To quote from the item ... Measles once again endemic in the United...
