Topic: Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-08 23:13:37

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Closantel, an older drug used to treat a parasitic liver disease in animals, may prove effective at combating river blindness in humans, a major cause of infection-related blindness, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Transmitted by blackflies breeding along fast-flowing tropical waterways, river blindness is an eye and skin disease caused by the filaria worm, which infects more ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-08 14:38:35

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. In a new study, the researchers report that using a standard 1-inch needle to immunize obese adolescents against hepatitis B virus produced a much weaker effect than using a longer needle. "As obesity rises ...

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AP Features | 2010-02-08 13:01:58

High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday. Between ...

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AP News | 2010-02-07 08:54:09
With criticism unabated, S.African president expresses regret over affair

South Africa's polygamist president has apologized to the nation after being criticized for having an extramarital affair that resulted in a daughter born in October. Analysts had argued that the love child revelations would have little impact because South African voters overwhelmingly supported Jacob Zuma in last year's ...

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Three Million Vaccinations By April

AllAfrica.com | 2010-02-09 08:45:18

Ginseng vs. common cold

Montreal Gazette, Canada | 2010-02-09 08:23:42

Country Struggles to Cope As Cancer Spreads

AllAfrica.com | 2010-02-09 08:08:37

Researchers develop 'lab on a chip' that detects viruses

KurzweilAI.net | 2010-02-09 07:23:41

Fighting against AIDS in the horn of Africa

EuroNews | 2010-02-09 04:57:25

Greece Is Too Small? Really?

Random Roger's Big Picture | 2010-02-09 08:50:25

Mumps Outbreak Hits Suburbs; Summer Camp Blamed

Village Voice: Runnin' Scared | 2010-02-09 07:23:43

The Grateful Dead: Trying to Figure Out this Odd SF Rock Band

Village Voice: Runnin' Scared | 2010-02-09 06:10:38

Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU

Slashdot | 2010-02-09 05:31:42

Mumps outbreak in New York

CNN Video | 2010-02-08 15:42:05

Haiti's next disaster: disease

CNN Video | 2010-02-05 11:51:13

Vaccine Adjuvants Can Help Flu Vaccines Be More Effective

RedOrbit Video | 2010-02-05 01:41:11

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