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Senate passes bill to strengthen emergency preparedness

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Ramsey Cox - Feb. 27 (News) - H.R. 307 Pandemic & All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2013

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New Virus Related To SARS Detected In The Middle East

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Michaeleen Doucleff - Sep. 25 (Comment) - A virus, which is genetically different than any seen before, has killed one man and hospitalized another. The virus comes from the same family as SARS, but it appears to be less contagious.

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Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Craig Welch - Nov. 30 (News Report) - A decade before this fall's salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island. But Canadian officials never told the public or scientists in the United States about those tests.

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Social Media Join Toolkit for Hunters of Disease

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bronwyn Garrity - Jun. 14 (News) - Social media — Facebook, Google, Twitter, location-based services like Foursquare and more — are changing the way epidemiologists discover and track the spread of disease.

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Circumcision Ban to Appear on San Francisco Ballot

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Staff writers - May. 18 (News) - An initiative that would ban the circumcision of males younger than 18 in San Francisco has received enough signatures to appear on the ballot. The practice would become a misdemeanor.

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Whatever happened to mad cow disease?

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

now for the science bit - By Hayley Crawford - May. 02 (News) - The first report of BSE was in the UK in 1986. Around 180,000 cows in the UK were suspected to have been infected in the years after that, but since the incubation period of this disease is 3 to 8 years, the government couldn’t risk waiting: almost 4.5 million cows were killed, without having visible symptoms. These days, cows are tested before entering into the human food chain.

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Past medical testing on humans revealed

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Mike Stobbe - Feb. 27 (Special Report) - Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital.

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Scientific review reaches no conclusion on source of anthrax

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Carol Cratty - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Using the available scientific evidence, "it is not possible to reach a definitive conclusion" about the source of the anthrax used in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks which killed five people, according to a report issued Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences.

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Leprosy, Plague and Other Visitors to New York

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By Anemona Hartocollis - Feb. 11 (News) - If an illness has cropped up elsewhere, it will probably find its way to New York City through its visitors.

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Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Alok Jha - Feb. 07 (News) - Scientists at Oxford University have successfully tested a universal flu vaccine that could work against all known strains of the illness, taking a significant step in the fight against a disease that affects billions of people each year.

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Circumcision helps stop cancer-causing virus, study finds

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 07 (News) - Researchers have documented yet another health benefit for circumcision, which can protect men against the AIDS virus, saying it can protect their wives and girlfriends from a virus that causes cervical cancer.

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Haiti, Nearly a Year Later

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Dec. 01 (Opinion) - Already, more than 1,700 people have died of cholera in less than a month, and the Pan American Health Organization estimates that 400,000 Haitians may get cholera over the next year.

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As cholera worsens, violence breaks out in Haiti

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ezra Fieser - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Anger over the cholera outbreak led to violent demonstrations today as protesters set fire to a police station and clashed with U.N. forces in Cap-Haitien, a city on the north coast. One protester was killed. Many Haitians blame a Nepalese U.N. contingent for causing the outbreak when sewage from their camp leaked into the Artibonite.

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America’s Hidden Diseases

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Nov. 06 (News Report) - Americans living in high poverty bear the burden of more than 20 common diseases that the medical establishment largely does not monitor, diagnose or treat, studies show.

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Looking for a Superbug Killer

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew Pollack - Nov. 06 (News Report) - Worried about an impending public health crisis, government officials are considering offering financial incentives to the pharmaceutical industry... to spur the development of vitally needed antibiotics... a considerable number of pharmaceutical giants have abandoned this field in search of more lucrative medicines. The number of new antibiotics in development is “distressingly low,”

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War and Sickness in Afghanistan

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Peter Hotez - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - Neglected diseases exacerbate the awful toll already taken by world conflicts, U.S. researcher says.

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Amazon Indians hit by deadly epidemic

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Ian James - Oct. 31 (News) - Malaria-like illness kills dozens, many of them children, in three villages. Venezuelan health workers say an epidemic that may be malaria has killed dozens of people.

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Haiti confirms cholera outbreak

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:40:03 -0700

Reuters - By BBC Staff - Oct. 22 (News Report) - Hundreds of people received treatment in the car park of a hospital in Saint-Marc Haiti's president and medical officials have confirmed that an outbreak of cholera has killed scores of people north of the capital Port-au-Prince. The victims suffered

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Honeybee Killer Found by Army and Entomologists

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Kirk Johnson - Oct. 06 (News Report) - Since 2006, 20-40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States have suffered “colony collapse.” Now, a unique partnership — of military scientists and entomologists — appears to have achieved a major breakthrough ... it may be the first time that the defense machinery of the post-Sept. 11 Homeland Security Department and academia have teamed up to address a problem that both sides say they might never have solved on their own.

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Doctors reconsider old antibiotics despite hazards

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Zajac - Jul. 18 (News Report) - More than half a century ago, when antibiotics were transforming modern medicine, a now almost forgotten drug was hailed as something close to the miracle of miracles. Doctors rushed to prescribe it for an array of medical problems — that is, until they discovered that the drug, chloramphenicol, sometimes had lethal side effects. Yet today, improbable as it may seem, an effort is underway to revive the use of chloramphenicol and other antibiotics that had largely been banished because of their potential danger.

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Disease and intelligence: Intelligence tested

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jul. 08 (Research) - HUMAN intelligence is higher, on average, in some places than in others. And researchers at the University of New Mexico have come up with an explanation, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Comparing the average IQ in a particular country with its disease burden (based on the reduction in life expectancy caused by 28 infectious diseases) reveals a striking correlation. At the bottom of the IQ list is Equatorial Guinea, followed by St Lucia, with Cameroon, Mozambique and Gabon tied for third last. These countries also have among the highest burdens of infectious diseases. At the opposite end of the scale, Singapore, South Korea, China and Japan show the highest intelligence scores and relatively low levels of disease. America, Britain and a number of European countries also place in the top left-hand corner of the chart. For more on this, see article.

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CNS Stop-Tuberculosis (TB) Initiative

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNS Stop-TB News Monitor - May. 11 (Research) - CNS Stop-TB News Monitor provides a snapshot of five major news pieces on tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment, care and support related issues, from around the world, particularly prioritising news highlights from TB high-burdened countries and links to major TB-related events or other advocacy opportunities.

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Gates rethinks the fight against polio

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:18:04 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Robert A. Guth - Apr. 23 (News Report) - Is humanity better served by waging wars on individual diseases, like polio? Or is it better to pursue a broader set of health goals simultaneously—improving hygiene, expanding immunizations, providing clean drinking water—that don't eliminate any one disease, but might improve the overall health of people in developing countries?

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Eradicating Guinea worm disease

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - A global campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease is tantalizingly close to success. The parasitic infection, caused by a worm that can grow three feet long before it emerges from a patient’s body, now affects just a few thousand people per year. Almost all of the remaining cases are in Southern Sudan. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who has helped lead the campaign, went there in February. The World’s David Baron was there too.

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Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline in deal to supply low-cost vaccines

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Mark King - Mar. 25 (News Report) - Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline will supply hundreds of millions of doses of their pneumonia vaccines to the world's poorest countries at heavily discounted prices under a novel agreement, reports the New York Times.

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