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Original Technorati articles tagged “infectious disease”

• in Social Media
  Research Looks at the Role of Social Media in an Epidemic
  New research looks at the role social media can play in the understanding and mitigation of infectious diseases.
  by cmimanagers / on Nov 29, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  FDA Limits Antibiotic Use in Livestock
  The FDA released a report limiting the use of a commonly used class of antibiotics in livestock.
  by jenna3967 / on Jan 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “infectious disease”

 

• Fecal Transplant Donor Dr. Hunter Johnson Happy To Go err … Give

  
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  Fecal transplant donor Dr. Hunter Johnson, a Pathology resident, has supplied stool that aided in the resolution of four serious courses of C. difficile infection at Emory University. It should be noted that while showing a cure a rate of up to 90% epidemiologists and infectious disease physicians are hoping that ...
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• Prescribing antibiotics: It’s time to draw a hard line

  
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  This is a call to arms to my fellow providers to protect our patients from themselves and our willingness to comply with their requests.  We live and practice in a society filled with fear of medications and their side effects.  People will not take blood pressure, cholesterol, or diabetic medication because of the ...
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• The rise of a frog-killing fungus pinned in part on global trade

  
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  Justin C. Touchon, Smithsonian Tropical Research It’s a tough time to be a frog. A fungal disease known as chytridiomycosis has been decimating populations across the planet for about a decade. Since its discovery in the late 1990s, it has already wiped out about 100 species. Although it seemed to ...
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• Sickly mosquitoes stymie malaria’s spread

  
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  Nature News are reporting that engineered mosquitoes are being used to carry a bacterium that confers resistance to the malaria parasite — a long-sought advance that could eventually curb malaria cases in humans. They announce that a team led by Zhiyong Xi, a medical entomologist at Michigan State University in ...
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• Adding Vaccines to Intensify the Assault on Malaria

  
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  The international community has made phenomenal progress against malaria, but the gains are fragile. Read more >>
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• The Brendon Project Announces Plans for Upcoming Bench Dedication Ceremony

  
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  Thanks to the efforts of The Brendon Project and Waldwick Mayor, Thomas Giordano , a bench dedication is planned for Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. EST at the Waldwick Borough Park, 98 Pine Street, Waldwick, New Jersey.  The bench dedication is the first of its kind and the one year memorial service in loving ...
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• Waste not, want not, say global sanitation innovators

  
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  Last week’s C-IDEA global health symposium here at Stanford featured 20 presentations on low-cost ideas for preventing disease in developing nations. As I wrote in an Inside Stanford Medicine article on the event, one of the more clever ideas was “ EZPZ ,” a method for treating latrine waste with alkalizing ...
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• Infectious disease course attracts students

  
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  The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) International Infectious Disease and Global Health (IID&GH) Training Program is offering a course that’s designed to enhance graduate and post-doctoral research training. Arguably the most unique feature of the training program is that the major course that is ...
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• Top stories in health and medicine, May 7, 2013

  
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  Brought to you by MedPage Today . 1. FDA Wants Cancer Warnings on Tanning Beds . Indoor tanning beds must must carry prominent warning labels indicating that children younger than 18 should not use them and that people who do use them need regular cancer screening. 2. Religion Powers End-of-Life Care . Terminal ...
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• Preventing norovirus transmission in your home

  
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  "Noroviruses are perhaps the perfect human pathogens. These viruses possess essentially all of the attributes of an ideal infectious agent: highly contagious, rapidly and prolifically shed, constantly evolving, evoking limited immunity, and only moderately virulent, allowing most of those infected to fully recover, ...
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• Cephalosporins Are Not Created Equal

  
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  Cephalosporins Are Not Created Equal Just the other day I found where a pharmacist had discontinued cefepime off a patient’s profile because a post-op order had included starting cefazolin post-op for three doses.  This particular patient had pseudomonas positive cultures, and I scratched my head trying to figure ...
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• Bird Flu: The Circulation of Life and Death in a Postspecies World by Natalie Porter

  
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  At the end of 2009, linguists around the world collected words to characterize the first decade of the new millennium.  “ Aporkalypse ” appeared at the top of their list, describing a swine-inspired end of days ushered in by the threat of bird flu. Though playful, this term points to a growing recognition that ...
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• Prevention: Who needs it?

  
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  Weve been blogging for some time about threats to the Prevention and Public Health Fund , a fund that supports many critical prevention efforts, including funding state health departments to coordinate healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention and enhancing laboratory capacity to detect infectious diseases ...
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• A new hope for hepatitis C infection

  
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  Hepatitis C is a viral infection that is usually spread through contact with infected blood. Prior to 1992, when testing of donated blood and organs became commonplace, many people were infected through blood transfusion and organ transplants. Now the most common method of infection is the sharing of needles or other ...
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• Allergies Vs. Amoebas: 2 Steps to Using a Neti Pot Safely

  
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  by James Hubbard, MD, MPH There are not many natural ways to treat or prevent nasal allergies effectively, but using a neti pot for nasal irrigation is one of them. And it’s safe. Okay, sure … a brain-eating amoeba has killed a few unfortunate people after they used contaminated tap water. And, yes, some ...
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• Long term central venous catheter related infections: what to do?

  
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  Remove? Treat through? Antibiotic lock?A practical review is presented here and the IDSA guidelines for IV catheter related infections in general are here.
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• Ecology of zoonotic diseases

  
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  Figuring out the what, where and when of disease outbreaks By Nadine Lymn, ESA director of public affairs Plague, Lyme disease, Hantavirus, West Nile Virus—these bacteria and viruses are zoonotic diseases that can be transmitted to people from animals like ticks, mosquitoes and rodents and were the subject of a ...
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• H7N9 influenza: the next pandemic?

  
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  NEJM report and Medscape update.
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• Pharmacy Access Coalition Urges Greater Access to Vaccines

  
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  Harrisburg – In honor of World Immunization Week (April 24-30, 2013), Pharmacy Choice and Access Now (PCAN) , a coalition of consumers, local businesses and pharmacists committed to preserving quality and affordable health care, is urging Pennsylvania legislators to increase access to critical, cost-effective and ...
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• California Residents Informed of Legionella Risks Associated with Hot Tubs

  
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  Garden Grove, CA, April 25, 2013 According to some reports, there are over 5 million residential hot tubs in the United States and many of these are located across California. Although hot tubs can provide relaxation and fun, if not properly maintained they can also present a health risk. One health concern is due ...
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