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• Okla. Health Dept. targets blacks for AIDS effort

  
  Washington Examiner — Authority: 691
  The Associated Press The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma State Department of Health is targeting the African-American community for ...
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• Lake County reports outbreaks of stomach illness

  
  ExaminerPolitics.com — Authority: 140
  The Associated Press The Associated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. Lake County health officials are reporting multiple recent outbreaks of a viral illness ...
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• Fear-Resistance: How Worried Should We Be about "Totally Drug-Resistant" Tuberculosis?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 135
  A few weeks ago a clinic in Mumbai claimed to have identified a dozen patients with a strain of tuberculosis (TB) resistant to all known treatments. TB is a highly contagious lung infection that kills about 1.5 million people each year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), so the development of ...
  2 days ago

• How Bacteria Behind Serious Childhood Disease Evolve To Evade Vaccines

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and US to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. The study, published in Nature Genetics, which investigates how bacteria change their disguise to evade the vaccines, has implications for how future vaccines can be made ...
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• Stealthy Leprosy Pathogen Evades Critical Vitamin D-Dependent Immune Response

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  A team of UCLA scientists has found that the pathogen that causes leprosy has a remarkable ability to avoid the human immune system by inhibiting the antimicrobial responses important to our defenses. In one of the first laboratory studies of its kind, researchers discovered that the leprosy pathogen Mycobacterium ...
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• How New Viruses Evolve, And In Some Cases, Become Deadly

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the journal Science. The scientists showed for the first time how the virus called "Lambda" evolved to find a new way to attack ...
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• Business, social media to prevent babies with HIV

  
  ExaminerPolitics.com — Authority: 140
  The Associated Press The Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland Business and social media leaders are teaming up to tackle the transmission of HIV ...
  5 days ago

• Gates injects $750M in troubled Global Fund

  
  Washington Examiner — Authority: 691
  The Associated Press The Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland Bill Gates is riding to the rescue of a beleaguered health fund by pledging $750 ...
  6 days ago

• Better Treatment And Fewer Costs With New Detection Method For UTI-Causing Bacteria

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  A new method for identifying bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) will lead to much faster, more effective treatment as well as a reduction in costs. The procedure, described in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, could eventually be used for the identification of micro-organisms in other bodily ...
  6 days ago

• Scabies - NHS patient education video

  
  CasesBlog - Medical and Health Blog — Authority: 106
  From the NHS Choices YouTube channel : Scabies is a contagious skin infection which itches intensely. A GP talks about the causes, symptoms and treatment. From the memorable medical textbooks of the past : Medical textbooks were not always as dreary and as bland as they are now, according to BMJ. Some examples of ...
  1 week ago

• Influenza: What You Should Know

  
  Physicians Health — Authority: 98
  Originally Written By Physicians-Health.Net The flu or influenza is an infectious disease that infects millions of Americans annually. This infectious disease is caused by a virus that can be inhaled, in the form of air droplets, or acquired through contact with contaminated objects. After the virus comes into contact ...
  1 week ago

• Extracellular Matrix Identified As Source Of Spreading In Biofilms

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  New research at Harvard explains how bacterial biofilms expand to form slimy mats on teeth, pipes, surgical instruments, and crops. Through experiment and mathematical analysis, researchers have shown that the extracellular matrix (ECM), a mesh of proteins and sugars that can form outside bacterial cells, creates ...
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• Shortages Of Anti-Infective Drugs Pose Threat To Public Health And Patient Care

  
  Health News and Views — Authority: 140
  Shortages of key drugs used to fight infections represent a public health emergency and can put patients at risk, according to a review published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online*…
  1 week ago

• China reports second bird flu death in a month

  
  Capital Land — Authority: 144
  The Associated Press The Associated Press BEIJING China on Sunday reported its second bird flu fatality in a month following deaths last week in ...
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• A Military Cutback We Can’t Afford: Fighting Tropical Diseases

  
  The Defense Base Act Compensation Blog — Authority: 455
  Leishmaniasis at The Iraq Infections “In the coming years leishmaniasis may become the most important condition you have never heard of among veterans” Barbara Herwaldt, CDC, on Leishmaniasis Contractors will be even less likely to be diagnosed and/or treated timely or effectively despite the ...
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• Mucus Baffles Ulcer-Causing Bacteria

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  Even the tiniest microscopic organisms make waves when they swim. In fact, dealing with these waves is a fact of life for the ulcer-causing bacteria H. pylori. The bacteria are known to change their behavior in order to compensate for the waves created by other bacteria swimming around in the same aquatic ...
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• Genetic Code Cracked For A Devastating Blood Parasite

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  Scientists have cracked the genetic code and predicted some high priority drug targets for the blood parasite Schistosoma haematobium, which is linked to bladder cancer and HIV/ AIDS and causes the insidious urogenital disease schistosomiasis haematobia in more than 112 million people in Africa. Schistomiasis is ...
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• Important Role In Acute, Chronic Urinary Tract Infections May Be Played By Bacterial Toxin

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 691
  Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable immune responses. According to this new study, published in Cell Host & Microbe, α-hemolysin, a toxin secreted by ...
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• Causes Of Chronic Hepatitis

  
  Physicians Health — Authority: 98
  Originally Written By Physicians-Health.Net Chronic hepatitis is a fairly common condition during which the liver is chronically inflamed. This condition is caused by a few different types of diseases. If left untreated infectious diseases, chronic alcoholism, and autoimmune diseases are the most common types of ...
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• Vietnam reports 1st bird flu death in 2 years

  
  Washington Examiner — Authority: 691
  The Associated Press The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam Vietnamese officials say theyve recorded the countrys first human bird flu death in ...
  1 week ago

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