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Scientists Receive $3.6 Million to Test Vaccine Against Deadliest Strain of Avian Flu (Curing Death by Curing Aging)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:51 GMT

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research have been awarded $3.6 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct animal studies of vaccines designed to protect against the most common and deadliest strain of avian flu, H5N1.

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Australian Editorial: A Battle To Secure Their Borders (Avian Flu Diary)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:07:00 GMT

# 2260 Nearly 40 years ago it was widely believed in medical circles that we were on the verge of eliminating infectious diseases as an ongoing threat to mankind. In 1969, the Surgeon General of the United States, William H. Stewart, declared, " The war against diseases has been won ." In the 3rd edition of the textbook Natural History of Infectious Disease, published in 1962,...

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Stochastic Spread Of Wolbachia (Medical News Today)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT

A remarkable number of insect species are infected by intracellular bacteria called Wolbachia. How these bacteria spread naturally, and how they might be used by man to control pests or disease vectors, are very active areas of research. Current theory largely ignores random effects that are likely to be important during the initial stages of invasion when only one or a few insects are infected. Our...

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Green Vaccines? Green This (Parenting Solved)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:53:58 GMT

Via Liz Ditz I stumbled upon Mark Crislip's review of childhood infectious diseases preventable by immunization in his post, Amanda Peet is My Hero. My favorite quote: Green our vaccines? The only green you will see by getting rid of...

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Most Adults Aren't Immunized Against Serious Infectious Diseases (YubaNet.com)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:00:20 GMT

When is the last time you got vaccinated? If you're like most Americans it's been years, maybe even decades. In fact the Centers for Disease Control has warned that far too few American adults are being vaccinated against serious, even deadly diseases.

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Moffitt Cancer Center Awarded $2 Million Grant For HPV Vaccination Study (Medical,Health News and Articles)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:40:08 GMT

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2 million grant to Moffitt Cancer Center to study the influences of physician, patient and policy factors on recommendations of HPV vaccination in the years following licensure of the vaccine. Principal investigator Susan Vadaparampil , [...]

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Bacterial and Influenza: The Streptococcus Vaccine Is One Way to Prepare Against the Unknown (Mike the Mad Biologist)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:03:47 GMT

There are two excellent papers in the August edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases (open access) about influenza that suggest alternative (or parallel) ways of dealing with an influenza pandemic ( note: by "alternative", I don't mean woo). The standard response that is typically discussed is an influenza vaccine--and I've mentioned before how important it is to increase our influenza...

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Biofilms Research Helps Set Standards For Everyday Products (Medical News Today)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Montana State University scientist Darla Goeres knows that there is more than one way to grow a biofilm, a fact that she uses to make sure that when a product claims it kills "99 percent" of bacteria, it really does the job. Biofilms are the extremely common communities of bacteria that form on most wet surfaces. They range from the plaque on teeth to the slime on streamside rocks to the sludge that...

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Science Of Anthrax Investigation Unveilled By FBI (Medical News Today)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT

They have worked for almost seven years in secret. Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner's materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI's investigation of letters containing bacillus anthracis, the spores that cause the disease anthrax. The spores were mailed in the fall of 2001 to several news media offices...

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Ralph D. Feigin, 70, Children’s Diseases Book Editor, Dies (New York Times)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:10:54 GMT

Dr. Feigin’s two-volume work, “Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases” is intended to aid diagnosticians and remains the standard in its field.

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Rheumatology: fastest growing subject of trials (Fiercebiotech)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:24:13 GMT

New analysis from Nature on the Phase II-IV clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov shows that oncology studies led all therapeutic areas, followed by central nervous system disorders, cardiology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and respiratory diseases. Those six areas accounted for two thirds of all protocols and two thirds of all sites. The highest growth in...

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College Cocktails Lead To Science Career (Medical,Health News and Articles)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:50:10 GMT

If you knew what possessed the young Jim Sacchettini to become a biochemist, you might look upon the “bar scene” more approvingly. But that story’s for later. Instead, ponder what Sacchettini calls “the diseases of the poor” - infectious diseases that not long ago were considered wiped from the face of the Earth - tuberculosis and [...]

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Bacteria killed most of the 50 million flu victims of 1918 (Patrick Joubert Conlon)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:30:00 GMT

Bacteria Fingered As Killer In 1918 Flu Pandemic : What killed tens of millions of people around the world in the 1918 flu pandemic actually might not have been a flu virus. A new study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases blames different agents: bacteria. The flu virus weakened lungs, opening the door to fatal bacterial pneumonia in most of the pandemic's 50 million victims, according...

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Nonprofit pharmaceutical company. Institute for One World Health (Politics in the Zeros)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:35:33 GMT

The Institute for One World Health develops “safe, effective, and affordable medicines for people with infectious diseases in the developing world.” We challenge the assumption that pharmaceutical research and development is too expensive to create the new medicines that the developing world desperately needs.

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Vaccine Nation (cryptogon.com)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:13:33 GMT

For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases — Right? Wrong! What you don’t know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: * See the truth about the dangers of vaccines and their direct [...]

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Community-Acquired ST398 MRSA Found in Sweden (Mike the Mad Biologist)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:28:19 GMT

This is not good. A recent article in Emerging Infectious Diseases describes two separate cases of community-acquired ST398 MRSA--and neither case was associated with agriculture. Let me explain what this means and why this is really bad news. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

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ProMED to Report Suspect Cases From Indonesia (Avian Flu Diary)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:26:00 GMT

# 2239 A week ago ProMED mail , the global electronic reporting system for the International Society for Infectious Diseases , announced that due to the inability to confirm H5N1 case reports coming out of Indonesia, they would no longer carry reports of `suspected cases'. ProMED Mail made the following editorial policy announcement on August 10th: Until further notice, ProMED-mail will...

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Obesity Risk Linked To History Of Chronic Ear Infections (Medical News Today)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:00:00 GMT

More than 5 million children cope with the agonizing ache of ear infection annually, but a new discovery suggests damage to taste nerves caused by the common childhood ailment might increase the risk of obesity later in life, say University of Florida College of Dentistry researchers. Chronic ear infections appear to trigger a preference for high-calorie food, leading to increased consumption and excessive...

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Effect Measure : Head lice go to the head of the class (Medical,Health News and Articles)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:44:06 GMT

A recent letter on the worldwide prevalence of head lice in CDC’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases made me nostalgic for the good old days when our two kids were in daycare (they are both adults with children of their own in daycare now). In particular, I got to thinking about the days when I was [...]

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Head lice go to the head of the class (Effect Measure)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:40:45 GMT

A recent letter on the worldwide prevalence of head lice in CDC's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases made me nostalgic for the good old days when our two kids were in daycare (they are both adults with children of their own in daycare now). In particular, I got to thinking about the days when I was active as an officer in the American Public Health Association (APHA) and many years...

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