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Give product a hand
Chelsea Standard-Heritage - It’s one extra thing to prevent the spread of germs, and it seems to be working,” said Phyllis Stutzman, Director of Infectious Disease Control at CCH. “It gives people around here a choice in what to use,” she added. “It’s whatever works for them

Pioneering AIDS Doc Dies
Gay City News - Sande went on to be one of the chief advisers to the city and state on how to allocate AIDS research funds and founded the Gladstone Institute that contributed to the development of drugs to treat HIV. He also co-founded the Infectious Disease

Inovio Biomedical Partner Tripep Treats First Subject In Phase I/II
Medical News Today - DNA plasmids are designed to express (produce) antigens that can induce an immune response specific to a cancer or infectious disease-causing organism. These plasmids are created synthetically and readily manufactured using well-established bacterial

The evolution of a killer
Nature.com - The main message to any public health programme anywhere in the world is that you cannot control infectious disease without a surveillance programme, says Willem Sturm, a doctor and microbiologist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa

Battle of the Bugs: Helping is as easy as soap and water
Journal Times - It s good that people are aware of MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), said Dr. Robert Gullberg, an infectious disease specialist at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-All Saints. It s good that they re aware of it because it s

Pharmasset Presents R7128 14-Day Monotherapy Study Results for the
Yahoo Finance - Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infectious disease of the liver and is a leading cause of chronic liver disease and liver transplants. The WHO estimates that nearly 180 million people worldwide, or approximately 3% of the world’s population, are

Wildlife responder sees upsurge in sick raccoon calls
White Plains Journal News - The animals she saw could have had rabies or distemper, an infectious disease that isn’t transmitted to humans or immunized pets. Without laboratory tests, which are only done if there is a suspicion of contact with a human or a pet, it is unclear

U.N. warns AIDS could spike if countries drop guard
Environmental News Network - This remains the leading infectious disease challenge to public health even if some of these figures are adjusted,” he told reporters in a telephone briefing . “We are facing decades of this problem.” (Reporting by Michael Kahn and Maggie Fox