News tagged with coughs
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
Oct 28, 2010 |
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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
Dec 27, 2009 |
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Lessons from the vaccine-autism wars
Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents don't believe them. Can scientists bridge the gap between evidence and doubt?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 27, 2009 |
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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.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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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 ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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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
May 01, 2009 |
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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.
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Whooping cough vaccine may be losing its punch: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vaccination programs against whooping cough may not be fully effective because the bacteria that cause the disease have evolved new strains, a new study has found. A team of Australian scientists has ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Calif. whooping cough: 9 dead, infections on rise (Update)
(AP) -- State health officials reported Thursday that California is on track to break a 55-year record for whooping cough infections in an epidemic that has already claimed the lives of nine infants.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 16, 2010 |
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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
Mar 24, 2011 |
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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 ...
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Incidence and reproduction numbers of pertussis
Analyses of serological and social contact data from five European countries by Mirjam Kretzschmar and colleagues show that childhood vaccination against Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) has shifted the burden of inf ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Panel: Gramps, get whooping cough shot
(AP) -- A federal advisory panel is recommending that people 65 and older who are around infants get vaccinated against whooping cough.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Refusing immunizations puts children at increased risk of pertussis infection
Children of parents who refuse vaccines are 23 times more likely to get whooping cough compared to fully immunized children, according to a new study led by a vaccine research team at Kaiser Permanente Colorado's Institute ...
May 26, 2009 |
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