News tagged with cases
Contact lenses are home to pathogenic amoebae
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contac ...
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis found in California
Aug 13, 2008 |
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In the first statewide study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in the United States, California officials have identified 18 cases of the dangerous and difficult-to-treat disease between 1993 and 2006, and ...
New psychotherapy has potential to treat majority of cases of eating disorders
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports.
Mexico says suspected swine flu deaths now at 149
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose ...
Questions and answers on swine flu
Apr 29, 2009 |
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As the number of swine flu cases grows, so do the questions about how the virus is transmitted and what people can do to prevent it. Here are answers from interviews with doctors and from public-health Web sites.
WHO urges restraint on Tamiflu in swine flu cases
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become ...
Scramble to stop swine flu spread among travelers
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Three more New Zealanders recently returned from Mexico are suspected of having swine flu and Spain announced the first confirmed case of the deadly virus in Europe on Monday, as countries rushed ...
Mexico may isolate flu patients, inspect homes
Apr 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As Mexico struggled against the odds Saturday to contain a strange new flu that has killed 68 and perhaps sickened more than 1,000, it was becoming clearer that the government hasn't moved quickly ...
Published ENT surgical innovations fall drastically
Sep 25, 2008 |
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The number of cases of surgical innovation published in otolaryngic medical journals has fallen drastically since the late 1980s, leading researchers to question the impact of government oversight over surgery, according ...
High tech needs patent reform
Apr 07, 2009 |
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It isn't often that you see heavyweights in the tech world duking it out in a high-stakes match, with Congress as the referee. It's happening today over proposed reforms in patent law, which pits the software and information ...
Drug-resistant tuberculosis rife in China
Dec 11, 2008 |
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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 has shown that almost 10% of Chinese TB cases are re ...
Suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico top 100
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Mexican government is trying to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as a new work week begins by urging people to stay home Monday if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to ...
First pharmaceutical drug to improve survival amongst patients with advanced hepatocarcinoma
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 27, 2008 |
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International research involving the University Hospital of the University of Navarra, together with other hospitals in Spain, has shown that Sorafenib, an orally administered pharmaceutical medicine, results in patients ...
Predicting TB outbreaks based on the first 2 cases
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) may be able to be identified by looking at certain characteristics of the first two patients, according to new research. If the first two patients are diagnosed within three months of each other, ...
A novel approach in the molecular differentiation of prion strains
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Aug 29, 2008 |
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A team from the French Food Safety Agency, Lyon, France, has identified a prion protein characteristic that is unique to some natural but unusual sheep scrapie cases. This finding, reported August 29th in the open-access ...
