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Researcher may have contracted virus carried by monkeys

It's the stuff of doomsday movies: A new virus jumps from animals to people, with ominous possibilities. At the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, last year, a newly identified ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US

(AP) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Human networking theory gives picture of infectious disease spread

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's colds and flu season, and as any parent knows, colds and flu spread like wildfire, especially through schools. New research using human-networking theory may give a clearer picture of ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Got a cold? Study says echinacea won't help much

Got the sniffles? The largest study of the popular herbal remedy echinacea finds it won't help you get better any sooner.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Contact among age groups key to understanding whooping cough spread and control

Strategies for preventing the spread of whooping cough -- on the rise in the United States and several other countries in recent years -- should take into account how often people in different age groups interact, research ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

From herd immunity and complacency to group panic: How vaccine scares unfold

Worries over vaccine risks can allow preventable contagious diseases, such as measles and whooping cough, to make a comeback. A new study, published in PLoS Computational Biology, shows how to predict ways in which popula ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

FDA panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol

(AP) -- Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Mortal chemical combat typifies the world of bacteria

Like all organisms, bacteria must compete for resources to survive, even if it means a fight to the death.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tips for avoiding, treating swine flu

Swine flu has surfaced in the United States, and people are bound to have many questions as the illness arrives a step closer to home. Dr. Mark Dworkin, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Spit, anyone?

Mark Nicas has given some of his best years to spittle. He builds models - the mathematical kind - of how someone else's slobber ends up on you. The size of the particles, whether they come out in a dry co ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

There are no cures for the common cold

Americans catch an estimated 1 billion colds each year. And by this time of year, as weary cold sufferers line up at local pharmacies, it may not sound surprising that Americans spend at least $4.2 billion annually on over-the-counter ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan suspends two vaccines after infant deaths (Update)

Japan's health ministry has suspended two widely-used vaccines made by drugs giants Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis as it investigates whether they are linked to the recent deaths of four infants.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treating acute coughs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prescribing antibiotics for patients with discoloured phlegm caused by acute cough has little or no effect on alleviating symptoms and recovery, a new University study has found.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Californians face whooping cough outbreak

Californians are rushing to get themselves inoculated against a whooping cough epidemic which has claimed the lives of several babies.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

21,000 had whooping cough last year, CDC says

(AP) -- More than 21,000 people got whooping cough last year, many of them children and teens. That's the highest number since 2005 and among the worst years in more than half a century, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1