Disease and Condition:
Research and publications on disease and conditions.
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Sep 10th, 2009
The Health Protection Agency has published its latest quarterly figures on MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bloodstream infections and C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections for the April to June 2009 period.
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Sep 10th, 2009
New discoveries about how diseases spread in bean plants could help researchers to develop new ways to prevent diseases in this valuable food crop.
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Sep 9th, 2009
The Iowa Department of Public Health has released the annual Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases Report.
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Sep 9th, 2009
King County has its first confirmed detection of West Nile virus in 2009, a crow found dead Aug. 24 in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle.
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Sep 9th, 2009
Dallas County Health and Human Services has confirmed the county's sixth human case of West Nile virus for the 2009 season.
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Sep 9th, 2009
Women with metabolic syndrome have more than two-thirds higher risk of developing symptomatic peripheral artery disease than women who don't have the syndrome.
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Sep 8th, 2009
The Washington Post article on Mike London includes the story of his daughter Ticynn and her diagnosis of Fanconi anemia at age 4. At the time he was working at Boston College. Ticynn needed a bone marrow transplant. The national registry found no matches. No family members matches.
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Sep 7th, 2009
Reports of a sudden and huge outbreak of H1N1 swine flu at Washington State University is reported by the college. According to health care personnel at the college, “it’s real”. H1N1 flu is believed to have affected 2000 students at Washington State University.
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Sep 7th, 2009
The Mobile County Health Department reports that a sentinel chicken in the Citronelle area has tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV).
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Sep 7th, 2009
Contra Costa County health officials said that they are investigating a case of tuberculosis involving a student at a local high school.
