Topic: Contagious and Infectious Diseases
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bathing severely injured intensive-care patients with antiseptic-soaked washcloths can cut their risk of developing certain types of infections, and also seems to help keep drug-resistant bacteria at bay, new research shows. Trauma patients are particularly vulnerable to hospital-acquired infections, Dr. Heather L. Evans of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, one of the study's authors, told ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness. The special U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that vaccines could not have caused the autism of an Oregon boy ...
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday it would reexamine its policy that bans gay men from donating blood, the 'Los Angeles Times' reported.
The FDA currently imposes a lifetime ban on men who have had a sexual relationship ...
