Disease Articles

Baltimore Sun - Monina Klevens, an epidemiologist with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We were surprised that the rates were so high. It's a call to action." The study, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, is the ...

Detroit Free Press - And eight days after his injury, an infectious disease doctor said he had MRSA. Scruggs went on stronger antibiotics and kept up with the treatment all summer. By mid-August, he started work again. But two days in, his right leg began to hurt. His leg ...

News.com.au - A TEENAGE girl is in a stable condition after being struck down with the deadly meningococcal disease, which may have incubated while she was on a cruise. The bacterial infection spreads among humans and can result in limb amputation or death if not ...

Seattle Times - The use of dietary substances, like the antioxidant vitamins C and E, has been pretty much a colossal failure for protection against almost any kind of human disease," Sporn said, "because when you eat them they don't go where you want them to ...

Baltimore Sun - The disease has devastated families, leaving children without parents and often killing multiple relatives. It is the leading cause of death among adults 35 to 44 years of age, surpassing homicide, and has had a corrosive effect on neighborhoods ...

Reuters - KOLKATA, India, Jan 22 (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu in India's most densely populated state could spiral out of control, officials said on Tuesday, as the disease spread to a seventh district. The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found among ...

Seattle Times - But stem cells can be remarkably effective in treating common canine maladies. The use of embryonic stem cells to treat human disease is controversial. The therapy used to help Eddie and other dogs uses adult stem cells, which occur naturally in the ...

Daily Telegraph - Ill-health led to Bob Woolmer's death in Jamaica during the World Cup last March, a British pathologist said at an inquest in Kingston. Dr Nathaniel Carey, a Metropolitan Police consultant, said that from photographs of Woolmer's body he would point ...

Newsday - Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The long-term consequences are "an important but relatively poorly documented, poorly studied area of foodborne illness." These late effects are believed to make up a very small ...

News.com.au - The outbreak has prompted Northern Territory health authorities to issue a warning about melioidosis to tourists and locals. Eleven people have been diagnosed with melioidosis so far this wet season, with one case involving a visitor who developed ...