Candidates look to state as debate grows about universal health
Los Angeles Daily News - occupational fatalities, cancer deaths and preventable hospitalizations, it faces challenges including increasing mental and physical illnesses among the poor, an uninsured population of 19 percent and a persistent increase in infectious disease

AIDS prevention projects in danger
Turkish Daily News - Now, Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease scientist, is waiting for more data to determine whether the government’s leading vaccine candidate, called VRC, will be safe enough to test. No final decision has been made on

Syphilis - primary
HealthCentral.com - Syphilis is one of the more frequently diagnosed and reported sexually transmitted diseases. A chancre is the typical sore of primary syphilis. Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by the corkscrew-shaped bacterium (spirochete), Treponema

CDC names meatpackers’ sickness
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Investigators say they ve ruled out toxins as a cause, and viruses or bacteria are unlikely because none of the affected workers reported infectious disease symptoms, such as fever, before the onset of their neurological symptoms. That would leave

A shot in the arm
South China Morning Post - Michael Osterholm, director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a frequent writer on such topics as avian flu and bioterrorism, said planning was poor. “People just assume business will run as

New Salk program to study microbes
San Diego Union-Tribune - Young, an infectious-disease researcher at Salk and chairman of the institute’s faculty. Young’s lab, for example, studies how human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, invades cells, but it has less expertise on how the cells that the virus invades

Landrieu, others defend earmarks
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Landrieu’s is the minority view in a city that is suddenly treating earmarks as an infectious disease. In his State of the Union address this week, President Bush lectured Congress about inserting pet projects into spending bills and ordered federal

China snow leaves millions in cold and dark
MSN UK News - We still have masses at train stations, bus stations, at airports and in crowded areas where perhaps some kinds of intestinal infectious disease could break out,” Yan Jiangying, the watchdog’s spokeswoman, told a news conference. In Guangzhou

Inverness Medical Innovations to Participate at 2008 Merrill
MSN MoneyCentral - A global leader in rapid point-of-care diagnostics, Inverness’ products, as well as its new product development efforts, focus on infectious disease, cardiology, oncology, drugs of abuse and women’s health. Inverness is headquartered in Waltham

Centre seeks info from Bangladesh on source of bird flu outbreak
Hindustan Times - Bird flu is an infectious disease caused by several subtypes of the Influenza A virus, which is known to affect birds, particularly migratory birds, ducks and chickens. It is also called avian influenza or avian flu. The highly pathogenic Influenza A

Shrink’s Progress
American Reporter - In turn, they seemed to lose interest in her, and some were afraid to be with her, as though her anorexia might be an infectious disease. Others, who were bulimic along with Debbie, felt guilty that they had helped start her down a precarious

Expanded Range of Tests Promote the Growing Appeal of Immunochemistry
Forbes - Immunochemistry tests include tests for thyroid function, cardiac and cancer markers, fertility/reproductive markers, infectious disease and retroviral markers, metabolic markers and therapeutic drug monitoring. Immunochemistry analysers are

400 chickens culled in Bihar
Hindustan Times - Bird flu is an infectious disease caused by several subtypes of the Influenza A virus, which is known to affect birds, particularly migratory birds, ducks and chickens. It is also called avian influenza or avian flu. The highly pathogenic Influenza A

Real Heroes Award dinner planned Jan. 31
Chippewa Herald - Dental decay is the single most common infectious disease of childhood. It is caused by bacterial infection in the mouth and is five times more common than asthma. For children, the effects of untreated disease can impact life s most basic

W Bengal admits falling behind in bird flu battle
Hindustan Times - Bird flu is an infectious disease caused by several subtypes of the Influenza A virus, which is known to affect birds, particularly migratory birds, ducks and chickens. It is also called avian influenza or avian flu. The highly pathogenic Influenza A

Infectious disease congress next month
Khaleej Times - DUBAI -The Dubai Department of Health and Medical Services (Dohms) will host the 15th International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) and the 2nd Annual International Infectious Disease Congress next month. The congresses will be

ImmunoVaccine Technologies Discusses Phase I Clinical Trial
Forbes - The acquisition enables IVT to create an entire pipeline of proprietary therapeutic cancer and infectious-disease specific vaccines. In January 2008, IVT licensed its technology to Pfizer Animal health, marking a pivotal step in achieving its vision

Death, Disease and Dirty Water
World Economic Forum - There is a well-established link between dirty water and disease. The effects of climate change and natural resource degradation on local ecosystems are further shaping the patterns of waterborne infectious disease. What is the emerging scientific

Panel pushing use of baby vaccine
Globe and Mail - Langley, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, said the committee stopped short of calling for a government-funded universal vaccine program because it has not yet completed cost-effectiveness studies. In the

It’s back: Influenza season is in flu swing
Tribune-Chronicle - It’s official the flu season is on. “It’s definitely the start. We’re definitely in it,” said Dr. Roger Baxter, an infectious disease expert with Kaiser Permanente who heads the HMO’s flu-surveillance program. Over the past two weeks, reported

Bomb maker confesses to spray-painting swastikas around Brooklyn
New York Daily News - Michael Clatts, who specializes in the spread of infectious disease and was a prominent AIDS researcher in the 1980s. Investigators did not believe the 50-year-old was aware of the arsenal because he was away. Penny Kauffman, who has lived in the

Oragenics Announces the Appointment of Two New Board Members
MSN MoneyCentral - Ron Evens further stated that, “Oragenics continues its evolution from an oral care company to an infectious disease company with multiple platforms and product opportunities.” About Oragenics: Oragenics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a

BioAlliance Pharma Publishes Its 2008 Financial Calendar and Announces
Forbes - The company is also developing a new therapeutic entities program focused on the oncology and infectious disease markets. In 2007, the company has established strategic alliances for commercializing Loramyc(R) in Europe (with JV SpeBio) and the USA