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More Girls than Boys Benefit from Breast-feeding
• Children's Health • • Infections • • Respiratory Problems • Jun 02 08
Challenging the long-standing belief that breast-feeding equally protects all babies against disease, research led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center investigators suggests that when it…
Infection Control Intervention Helps Keep Kids in School
• Children's Health • • Infections • Jun 02 08
A study from researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston published in Pediatrics found that a simple infection control intervention in elementary schools – disinfecting frequently-touched…
Researchers Find New Treatment for Hepatitis C
• Immunology • • Infections • May 14 08
Researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center have found a new use for an old drug. Their findings appear online Friday in the…
China issues virus alert after 23 die
• Infections • • Public Health • May 03 08
Enterovirus-71 has killed 23 children, sickened 4,000 others. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam also have outbreaks. Beijing seeks to avoid coverup charges as…
Alligator blood may put the bite on antibiotic-resistant infections
• Infections • Apr 07 08
Despite their reputation for deadly attacks on humans and pets, alligators are wiggling their way toward a new role as potential lifesavers in medicine,…
Dramatic Rise in Hepatitis C-Related Deaths in the United States
• Infections • • Public Health • Mar 24 08
Hepatitis C-related deaths in the United States increased by 123 percent from 1995 through 2004, the most recent year for which data are available.…
Antibiotics not needed for acute rhinosinusitis
• Drug News • • Flu • • Infections • Mar 15 08
Symptoms cannot reliably identify which patients with acute rhinosinusitis - infection of the nasal and sinus cavities, will benefit from antibiotic therapy, according to…
New chemical can kill latent tuberculosis bacteria
• Infections • • Tuberculosis • Mar 14 08
Success in the laboratory suggests that a new compound can point the way to preventing active tuberculosis in people infected with the latent form…
Cat carried woman’s antibiotic-resistant infection
• Infections • Mar 13 08
Pets can harbor virulent antibiotic-resistant infections and spread them to humans, German researchers reported on Wednesday.
The warning is based on the case of…
Safe and Sound?
• Infections • • Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Mar 06 08
It is no secret—MRSA kills. It is also no secret that MRSA is a huge ongoing obstacle facing all health-care professionals; orthpaedic surgeons are…
Blacks twice as susceptible and more likely to die of severe sepsis than whites
• Infections • • Surgery • Feb 01 08
Blacks have almost double the rate of severe sepsis—an overwhelming infection of the bloodstream accompanied by acute organ dysfunction—as whites, according to recent research.
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Eczema still on the increase in developing countries
• Children's Health • • Dermatology • • Infections • Jan 07 08
Experts are warning policy makers that allergic disease might replace infectious disease as a major cause of ill health in cities undergoing rapid demographic…
Avoiding The Spread of Infection – In More Ways Than One
• Infections • Dec 10 07
It’s well known that a primary vector of disease is a germ-laden hand. Mano to mano, much misery in the land of the adenovirus…
Handwashing more useful than drugs in virus control
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 29 07
Physical barriers, such as regular handwashing and wearing masks, gloves and gowns, may be more effective than drugs to prevent the spread of respiratory…
Pneumococcal Infection Rates Drop, Despite Uneven Childhood Vaccination
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 27 07
Since its addition to the list of routine immunizations in 2000, one childhood vaccine has helped prevent some pneumococcal-related illness, including pneumonia and otitis…
Green Tea Proves Powerful Medicine Against Sepsis
• Food & Nutrition • • Immunology • • Infections • Nov 10 07
A major component of green tea could prove the perfect elixir for severe sepsis, an abnormal immune system response to a bacterial infection. In…
Interferon Does Not Slow or Stop Progression of Hepatitis C in Certain Patients
• Infections • Nov 10 07
Interferon does not slow or halt the progression of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease in patients who haven’t responded to previous attempts…
Evidence of a relationship between swimming babies and infections
• Children's Health • • Infections • Oct 04 07
Neuherberg, 4 October. Scientists of the GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) found indications for…
Nosespray Vaccine Using Aloe Vera Has Exciting Potential
• Drug News • • Flu • • Infections • Sep 26 07
Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly…
New antibiotic drug combo to speed up treatment of tuberculosis
• Drug News • • Infections • Sep 18 07
A team of tuberculosis (TB) experts at Johns Hopkins and in Brazil have evidence that substituting the antibiotic moxifloxacin in the regimen of drugs…
Finding Better Ways to Treat Tropical Disease Caused by Parasitic Worm
• Infections • • Parasitic diseases • Sep 13 07
Researchers have provided new details about the inner workings of a parasitic worm that causes a tropical disease called schistosomiasis, which leads to itchy…
Antibiotics Don’t Prevent Future Urinary Tract Infections in Children
• Children's Health • • Infections • • Urine Problems • Jul 10 07
After a first childhood urinary tract infection (UTI), daily antibiotics may not prevent another such infection, and may actually increase the risk that the…
Pneumonia guideline may lead to wrong treatment
• Infections • • Respiratory Problems • Jul 04 07
Tight adherence to guidelines for managing people who catch pneumonia in the community - such as starting antibiotics within 4 hours of arrival at…
Infection tied to recalled contact lens solution
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Infections • Jul 04 07
Results of an ongoing investigation confirm a “strong association” between use of a particular type of contact lens solution - Advanced Medical Optics (AMO)…
Discovery of New Infectious Diseases - Bartonella Species
• Infections • Jul 02 07
Careful microbiologic evaluation of patients with various illnesses has led to the discovery of many important pathogens in recent decades, including human immunodeficiency virus…