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Meningococcal Disease in Sudan

... whether districts in these areas have reached the epidemic threshold. Cerebrospinal fluid specimens collected from the 8 affected states have tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A by latex test. Medicines for case management as well as emergency supplies for outbreak investigations and t...

China Gearing Up for Bird Flu Season

...cent of domestic poultry and tracked 6.811 million epidemic samples. The government has decided to train more village veterinarians and animal epidemic prevention technicians in order to cope with the shortage of epidemic prevention staff in the villag...

HIV/AIDS Epidemic may Strike Malaysia-experts Warn

... several Asia-Pacific countries that risked an HIV epidemic among drug users, unless the government took the problem more seriously. In response, the government had taken up intervention measures that included drug substitution therapy and needle exchange programs for drug addicts, as well as providing f...

African-American Mothers More Likely to Deliver Prematurely

...erstand fundamental mechanisms responsible for the epidemic of prematurity in the United States,' said F. Sessions Cole, M.D., assistant vice chancellor for children's health at the School of Medicine and director of the Division of Pediatric Newborn Medicine and chief medical officer at St. Louis Children's ...

Meningococcal Disease in Burkina Faso

...// Ouargaye district has an attack rate above the epidemic threshold and another three districts, Banfora, Batie and Sapouy are in the alert phase. Cerebrospinal fluid specimens have tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A by latex test. The Ministry of Health is planning to conduct a vacc...

Obesity and Older Adults

... gain fat as they age - but because of the obesity epidemic - they actually begin their older years fatter. ... "The combined effects of aging and the obesity epidemic results in bigger body size and less lean mass among the elderly," said Ding. "This may lead to disa...

Research Explores Chiropractic's Effect on Diabetes

...adliest disease in the United States and a growing epidemic worldwide. Now, researchers are finding evidence that chiropractic adjustments might be// able to make a valuable contribution to an overall program of wellness care to help diabetes sufferers. A study published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxat...

U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic

... a recent study of how 44 cities fared in the 1918 epidemic conducted jointly by the C.D.C. and the University...oomed others. While a few tiny towns escaped the epidemic entirely by cutting off all contact with outside, most cities took less drastic measures. These incl...

Esophageal Cancer Rates Climb With Obesity

...ed excessively. In association with the horrendous epidemic of obesity in this country, we have seen a 350 percent increase of adenocarcinoma over the last 30 years. This is related to more gastroesophageal relux and Barrett’s esophagus in these patients,” says Mark Orringer, M.D., John Alexander Distinguis...

To Russia With Love-Bird Flu Strikes

.... The incidence of bird flu in 2006 resulted in an epidemic that called for the culling// of 1.5 million birds. The present outbreak is near the country’s Black Sea coast. “A laboratory analysis has uncovered the H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry at three locations in the southern Krasnodar region,” says Ale...

Scientists Find Potential Weakness In Plague Germ

The germ that caused the plague epidemic that ravaged medieval Europe has a weakness that could help make a particularly dangerous form easier to treat//, according to a study published on Thursday. A bacterium known as Yersinia pestis causes both bubonic plague, the dreaded Black Death s...

A Protein in Brain Cells Controls Obesity: Research

...d be useful in new strategies to fight the world’s epidemic of obesity, the finding gives scientists an important system to target in future research and the development of anti-obesity medications. Using a variety of genetic, diet and hormone techniques, they were able to show that the action of SH2B1 regu...

Tuberculosis Experts Outline Proposals to Speed Up Drug Development

...as been developed each year since the start of the epidemic 25 years ago, the latest novel TB drug in today's standard therapy was developed in the 1960s. Basic science is not being translated into new TB drugs needed to improve treatment, according to an MSF analysis of the TB drug pipeline. There are not...

Call For Bird Flu Antiviral Drugs To Be Shared

...5N1 influenza) has not triggered a worldwide human epidemic yet because it rarely passes between people. If it does acquire this ability, it would take 6-8 months to develop a vaccine effective against the new virus. Public health officials therefore need to consider how they would protect people during the f...

Experts Use Weather to Predict Disease

...s can often be a key factor in finding out when an epidemic is imminent because they determine the conditions for germs and their carriers to breed. The techniques can help quicken the response to viral outbreaks worldwide and health disasters like Europe's devastating 2003 heat wave and global warming is ...

Scientists Assess Risk of Flu Pandemic Spread Via Global Airlines

...ey devised is said to be the world's largest-scale epidemic simulation of its kind. H5N1 avian influenza, co... the statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemic spread, "the cooperative strategy is shown to be more effective in delaying the pandemic evolution a...

Scientists Unravel Superbug That Kills in 24 Hours

...ain, experts fear we are in the early stages of an epidemic that could result in a massive death toll if the superbug took hold in hospitals. The bug generally attacks the body through open wounds and can cause necrotising pneumonia, a disease that rapidly destroys lung tissue and is lethal in 75 per cent ...

Hemorrhagic Dengue Alert in Paraguay

...e are having more complicated cases and a possible epidemic that could cause serious problems, even loss of life." Martinez called all people to join the prevention campaign against the disease, which has caused about 1,165 suspected cases and other 1,694 have been confirmed in the country. Source: Bio Bi...

Childhood Obesity Linked to Foot Pain

...n in their examining rooms,// mirroring a national epidemic of childhood obesity. An estimated 16 percent of U.S. children ages six to 19 are overweight. Poor diet, lack of exercise and genetics can play a role. A 'vicious cycle' of foot pain and obesity traps some children. 'You want overweight children ...

Cure for Most Heart Attacks Is Free, but It's Important to Start Young

...ough exercise lead to obesity, which has become an epidemic in many developed nations and is the most powerful risk factor for diabetes. Diabetes leads to an array of health problems that include heart attacks, blindness, and kidney failure. ‘We’re seeing more kids today with adult-type diabetes than we’ve...

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