News tagged with stomach flu

Vaccine against epidemic gastroenteritis being tested

(Medical Xpress) -- A new vaccine is being tested in the US that may protect against the norovirus, which causes "stomach flu" or acute viral gastroenteritis, that can occur in confined living settings such as cruise ships, ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

'Stomach flu' may be linked to food allergies

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found a possible link between norovirus, a virus that causes "stomach flu" in humans, and food allergies. The findings are published in The Open Immunology Journal, Volume ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Raw sewage: Home to millions of undescribed viruses

Biologists have described only a few thousand different viruses so far, but a new study reveals a vast world of unseen viral diversity that exists right under our noses. A paper to be published Tuesday, October 4 in the online ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Boy came for a liver, but left with a heart

It started as something of a medical mystery that, at first, doctors couldn't figure out.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Stronger flu shots, more side effects

Ordinary flu vaccine has always worked out for Carolyn Hendrickson, so the 77-year-old was perplexed on a recent Monday when her clinic gave her a high-dose version without asking first.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UK medical group rejects new skin cancer treatment

(AP) -- An independent British medical watchdog says the first treatment proven to help people with the deadliest form of skin cancer is too expensive to be used by the U.K.'s health care system, a recommendation critics ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bone-strengthening drug gives pain relief in prostate cancer bone metastases

Stockholm, Sweden: Many prostate cancer patients develop bone metastases, and controlling the pain these cause can be difficult. Now the first large randomised Phase III trial of a bisphosphonate drug in these patients has ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens

(AP) -- Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flu fighter: Physicist is working on faster identification of viruses to enable earlier treatment

When Zuzanna Siwy was growing up in Poland, she suffered often from the flu. “I was one of the wimpy children,” jokes the UC Irvine associate professor of physics & astronomy.

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Overdoses of popular painkiller send thousands to ER each year

Overdose of the common household drug acetaminophen leads to more than 78,000 emergency department (ED) visits a year, and the majority of the overdoses are intentional, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease ...

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created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bitterness induces nausea, swallowing not required

The mere taste of something extremely bitter—even if you don't swallow it at all—is enough to cause that dreaded feeling of nausea and to set your stomach churning, according to a new study reported in the April ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Past medical testing on humans revealed

(AP) -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 27, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10

Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma

In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus infection in young mice protected the mice as adults against the development ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Near-lethal bout of swine flu successfully treated with heart-lung machine and lung transplant

According to the critical care experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital who treated him, Allen Bagents, 24, of Arlington, Va., is the least likely person anyone ever expects to get sick, let alone suffer a six-week, potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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