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Meningococcal C Conjugate Vaccine Reduces Meningitis Rates in Canada
• Brain • • Infections • • Neurology • Mar 03 09
Rates of meningitis have decreased in Canadian provinces introducing routine immunization of children and adolescents against one specific strain of meningococcal bacteria, reports…
Drugs not advised to prevent ear infection
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Infections • Feb 19 09
Children with middle ear infections, also known as otitis media, should not be given antibiotics to prevent a type of skull bone infection called…
Rise in strep infection seen in black newborns
• Children's Health • • Infections • Feb 18 09
From 2003 to 2006, cases of infection with group B streptococcus (GBS), which can be life threatening, have increased among black newborns in the…
McMaster researchers discover new mode of how diseases evolve
• Infections • • Public Health • Feb 17 09
Researchers of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research have discovered a new way that bacteria evolve into something that can make…
Poor People Suffer Disproportionately from Chronic Infections
• Infections • Feb 05 09
Kids from low-income families are much more likely to suffer from serious infections such as herpes or hepatitis A than their counterparts in…
Vaccine cuts meningitis rates, even in adults
• Infections • Jan 16 09
A routine childhood vaccine used to prevent several common types of infections has helped cut the rate of a deadly form of meningitis by…
Peanut butter linked to U.S. Salmonella outbreak
• Dieting • • Infections • Jan 14 09
Tests confirm that bacteria in recalled batches of contaminated peanut butter match the strain of Salmonella food poisoning that has made at least 410…
Using math to understand hepatitis C
• Infections • Dec 23 08
Using math to understand hep. C: Patterns paint picture of who will respond to treatment
Genetic patterns are like the tea leaves in the…
Symptom Score Helps Monitor Recovery from Ear Infections
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Infections • Dec 21 08
A simple 13-point symptom score can help in tracking improvement in infants and toddlers with middle ear infection, or acute otitis media (AOM), reports…
Watching Water from Space Could Aid Disease Prevention in China
• Infections • • Public Health • Dec 18 08
Scientists are looking to outer space for help in their attempt to prevent new outbreaks of the tropical disease schistosomiasis in southern China.
Once…
Drug-resistant tuberculosis rife in China
• Infections • • Tuberculosis • Dec 11 08
Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average. Nationwide research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases…
Treatment for Advanced Hepatitis C Doesn’t Work
• Infections • Dec 04 08
An NIH funded multi-center clinical trial found no benefit from “maintenance therapy,” low-dose peginterferon used for hepatitis C patients who have not responded to…
Tiny fungi may have sex while infecting humans
• AIDS/HIV • • Infections • • Sexual Health • Oct 31 08
A fungus called microsporidia that causes chronic diarrhea in AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients and travelers has been identified as a member of the…
Early infections may increase arthritis risk
• Arthritis • • Infections • Oct 28 08
Babies with serious infections during their first year of life appear more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis at an early age, Swedish researchers said…
Contact lenses are home to pathogenic amoebae
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Infections • Oct 20 08
Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal…
Scientists discover bacteria that can cause bone infections
• Infections • Oct 17 08
Scientists have discovered that a bone infection is caused by a newly described species of bacteria that is related to the tuberculosis pathogen. The…
Ear Tubes Reduce Infections, Review Concludes
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Infections • Oct 08 08
Once again, your baby is spiking a fever and tugging at his earlobe, obviously in pain. Your pediatrician confirms what you already knew:…
New Test Could Help Catch Serious Infections in Babies
• Children's Health • • Infections • Oct 06 08
A simple blood test may help detect serious bacterial infections (SBIs) like urinary tract infections and blood stream infections in young infants who come…
More hand-washing won’t curb hospital infections
• Infections • • Surgery • Sep 17 08
Although hand hygiene is an important method of hospital infection control, increasing the frequency of hand washing by doctors and other healthcare workers does…
A potential approach to treatment of hepatitis B virus infection
• Infections • Sep 10 08
Eukaryotic cells employ multiple strategies of checkpoint signaling and DNA repair mechanisms to monitor and repair damaged DNA. There are two branches in the…
Most Vaccine-allergic Children Can Still be Safely Vaccinated, Experts Say
• Children's Health • • Allergies • • Infections • Sep 02 08
With close monitoring and a few standard precautions, nearly all children with known or suspected vaccine allergies can be safely immunized, according to a…
Zinc Could Saves Lives of Children With Diarrhea
• Children's Health • • Infections • Jul 29 08
An estimated 2 million children in developing countries die each year from diarrhea, but simple zinc treatment could reduce the risk of such deaths.
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Improved Culture System for Hepatitis C Virus Infection
• Infections • Jul 15 08
A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researcher has developed the first tissue culture of normal, human liver cells that can model…
Engineers Develop Novel Device to Help Treat Ear Infections
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Infections • Jun 16 08
One of the most common surgeries performed on pediatric patients could become faster and safer thanks to a new surgical tool developed by a…
Early smoke exposure ups serious infection risk
• Infections • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jun 04 08
Children who are exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke early in life are at greater risk of being hospitalized for infections than those brought up…