New guideline for treating Lyme disease
...American Academy of Neurology. Lyme disease, an infectious disease caused by tick-borne bacteria, affects the nervous system in 10 to 15 percent of infected patients. "While other guidelines exist to help diagnose and treat general Lyme disease, there continues to be considerable controversy and uncertaint...System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
...nside airline cabins. The inadvertent release of infectious pathogens inside an aircraft is especially dangerous during lengthy international flights, said Chen, who is a principal director of the center. The effort involves an interdisciplinary team of Purdue researchers from chemical and mechanical engineer...Cure for hepatitis C announced by VCU researcher
...-infected with HCV. Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infectious disease of the liver and a leading cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer and the need for liver transplants. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 4.1 million Americans have been infected with hepatitis C, and 3.2 milli...Blood transfusions from precancerous blood donors do not increase risk of cancer
...se to a current record low. However, although most infectious complications have been relatively easy to identify, possible transmission of chronic diseases with unknown causes and long induction or latency periods has been far more difficult to address." They conclude: "Our data provide no evidence that bloo...Why Lincoln fell gravely ill after delivering his Gettysburg Address
...knowledged that the president did have that highly infectious disease, Lincoln is said to have responded: "How interesting. I find every now and then that even unpleasant situations in life have certain compensation. As you came in just now, did you pass through the waiting room"" Van Bibber responded, "I pas...Exposure to mercury preservatives before birth is no higher in children with autism
...to increase morbidity and mortality from childhood infectious diseases."......on three hypothetical scenarios: a public riot, an infectious disease outbreak and a regional power outage. The workers included doctors and nurses (47%), support staff (29%) and administration (23%), 68 percent of whom had undergone a minimum of awareness level disaster training. "Health care workers (HCWs) w...Will the healthcare workers go to work during disasters?
...of three hypothetical scenarios: A public riot, an infectious disease outbreak and a regional power outage. Workers were more willing to work when they felt that their role in a disaster was important, and that they could be effective in that role. They were also more likely to work when they felt safe travelin...Ronald W. Busuttil receives American Surgical Association's highest honor
...made seminal contributions to research in surgical infectious disease, surgery for portal hypertension and the biology of aortic aneurysms. Busuttil serves as an editorial board member or reviewer for many prestigious journals and is co-editor of "Transplantation of the Liver," the definitive textbook on the ...Faster and better emergency response through satellite telecoms
...one European. In the first, a suspected case of an infectious disease is reported. Field teams will be deployed by the local Ministry of Health, international organisations and NGOs. The scenario will require them to assess the current situation and deploy a mobile laboratory. Based on field reports, a practice...Health officials renew Indo-US Vaccine Action Program
...tuberculosis, malaria and emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Roger Glass M.D., Ph.D., NIH associate director for international research and director, Fogarty International Center, also attende...UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough
...nt vaccine model could potentially be usedfor most infectious diseases and some cancers, Professor Tindle said. Playing a key role in the research group is international expert on recombinant vaccines,Dr Scott Thomson. Professor Tindle said gaining Dr Thomson's expertise was a coup forthe project. "If anyone's ...Infection takes high toll in young children
Dr Deborah Lehmann, who leads infectious diseases research at the Telethon Institute for Ch... Study co-author Dr David Burgner, specialist in infectious diseases at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia, said ...Johns Hopkins begins aggressive screening for 'superbugs' in children
...the four-day conference, expected to attract 1,200 infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, nurses and h... children," says Aaron Milstone, M.D., a pediatric infectious diseases research fellow at Hopkins who led the study. Vancomycin (Vancocin) is currently the on...Global burden of childhood deafness overlooked
...nted for as being caused by congenital conditions, infectious diseases or injuries. But evidence suggests that a substantial portion of children have hearing impairment of unknown causation. National health systems in many developing countries are too weak to bear the added burden of non-fatal but disabling d...Childhood immunization against pneumonia cuts hospital admissions by almost 40 percent
... pneumonia and influenza combined are the greatest infectious cause of death, accounting for between three and 18% of all childhood hospital admissions. The research team looked at all-cause pneumonia hospital admissions for two periods - between 1997 and 1999, and between 2001 and 2004. The year 2000 was omi...Infection detectives use disease 'fingerprints' to track common infections in children
... that information to get a composite sketch of the infectious agent. "We are genetically programmed to respond...es that help distinguish infections and identified infectious agents with better-than-average success rates. Doctors were able to distinguish between the influenz...NIH names Clinical Trial Units for the Microbicide Trials Network
...gh School of Medicine and director of reproductive infectious disease research at the Magee-Womens Research Institute. The MTN brings together international investigators and community partners who are devoted to reducing the sexual transmission of HIV through the development and evaluation of microbicides an......amir S. Shah, M.D., a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. "Given the nature of the available data, we could not evaluate safety and effectiveness of those medications, although those are important concerns. However, only a small number of drugs have been f......T lymphocytes are activated. Having identified an infectious or tumour cell, they bind to it and target it with a fatal load of enzymes. When T lymphocytes infiltrate a tumour Before this work by Alexandre Boissonnas and Luc Fetler, no-one had ever observed at the cellular scale what happens when activate...