News tagged with sore throats
Mutated scarlet fever fuels Hong Kong outbreak
(AP) -- Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries - an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Instant testing for sore throats wins CIMIT prize
Imagine finding out before you leave the pediatrician's office if your child has strep throat, or even something more serious requiring a different treatment. A novel application for applying DNA "nanobarcodes" in a clinical ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 08, 2010 |
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Symptom patterns differ between pandemic, seasonal flu in Singapore
In a tropical environment, influenza A(H1N1) appeared milder than seasonal flu, was less likely to cause fever and upset stomach and more likely to infect younger individuals, according to a report in the May 24 issue of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 24, 2010 |
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Physician urges changes in diagnosis for sore throat in young adults
New analysis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that physicians need to re-think their diagnosis and treatment of sore throat, or pharyngitis, in adolescents and young adults to consider a more newly ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Swine flu fears close schools in NY, Texas, Calif.
(AP) -- Esti Lamonaca's illness started with a high fever, a cough and achy bones, just a couple of days after she returned from a spring break trip on the beach in Cancun with friends. By the weekend, her ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 27, 2009 |
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