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'Outbreaks Near Me' app now available for Android mobile phones

Technology / Software

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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Outbreaks Near Me," an up-to-the-minute disease-tracking system released as an iPhone application in September, is now available for use on Android mobile phones, greatly increasing the number of people ...


CDC: Swine flu less widespread, down to 32 states

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A new government report says swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30.


Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, ...


More rural Medicare beneficiaries elect joint replacement surgery than urban recipients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Southern Illinois University researchers determined Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas were 27% more likely than urban recipients to have total knee or hip replacement surgeries. Researchers found women were more ...


Patients say 'no thanks' to risky medical treatments

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study suggests that increasing patient responsibility for making medical decisions may decrease their willingness to accept risky treatment options. Details of this proof-of-concept study appear in the December issue ...


Osteoarthritis increases aggregate health care expenditures by $186 billion annually

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of the ...


Hajj devil stoning ritual biggest swine flu risk (AP)

Hajj devil stoning ritual biggest swine flu risk

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday - the hajj ritual of highest ...


CDC: Swine flu vaccine safe; no big problems seen

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- U.S. health officials say there's no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects.


CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu (AP)

CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Let us give thanks - and pass the Purell. Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may also be on the table - and at crowded airports and shopping ...


Alarming trend -- antiviral therapy to treat hepatitis C is declining in the US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Michigan determined that only 663,000 of the approximately 3.9 million Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection received antiviral therapy between 2002 and 2007. Treatment rates ...


Amid the flu epidemic, don't forget RSV in young children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Influenza, particularly H1N1, has understandably captured the attention of public health officials, the media and the public. However, an analysis from Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department ...


Swine flu vaccine effective despite mutations: experts

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.


CDC Confirms Four New Cases of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant H1N1

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tests performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of infectious disease experts at Duke University Medical Center have confirmed this week that isolates from four patients with H1N1 influenza ...


CDC: Swine flu cases seem to be dropping in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings next week makes it hard to predict what will happen next.


AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound (AP)

Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.