Viral Diseases and Infections

Ty Lawson, Nuggets leave the Lakers feeling ill with Game 6 win

2012-05-10 22:20:00

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Egg producers fund study confirming the health benefits of eggs

2012-05-12 06:00:00

News flash: Eggs are really good for you. This message was brought to you by the American Egg Board. That’s right – the folks who sell eggs paid for a study that comes to the shocking conclusion that eggs are an ideal breakfast food. They...

1 of 6 cancer deaths worldwide caused by preventable infections

2012-05-09 09:59:00

One in every six cancer deaths worldwide is caused by preventable infections, a total of 1.5 million deaths yearly that could be halted by widespread vaccination programs, researchers reported Wednesday. Since 1990, that number has grown by about half a...

Contaminated reusable grocery bag causes gastric illness outbreak

2012-05-09 09:35:00

A reusable grocery bag left in a hotel bathroom caused an outbreak of norovirus-induced diarrhea and nausea that struck nine of 13 members of a girls' soccer team in October, Oregon researchers reported Wednesday. The outbreak also affected many family...

Vaccination rates higher in states requiring them in middle school

2012-05-07 11:08:00

States that require vaccination for pertussis, meningitis and tetanus for admission to middle school have a higher vaccination rate than states that do not, but the rate is not nearly as high as one might expect from such a requirement, researchers...

How to parent like a celebrity

2012-05-10 13:30:00

"Mad Men" actress January Jones ate her placenta (to be fair, dried and made into a pill). Alicia Silverstone chews up veggies and deposits them mama-bird-style into her baby son's mouth. And model Gisele Bundchen says her diaper-free son was toilet...

Drug moves toward FDA approval for HIV prevention

2012-05-09 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved a step closer to becoming the first drug approved in the U.S. to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The Food and Drug Administration said...

Letters: A fresh look at hepatitis C

2012-05-06 00:00:00

Re "Hepatitis a new worry for baby boomers," May 2 In the late 1960s I was a Peace Corps volunteer teaching school in Uganda. I became ill and required blood transfusions. Fast forward 30 years and I'm donating my own blood for surgery. Imagine my...

Dead bat at Laguna Niguel park tests positive for rabies

2012-04-27 04:34:58

FDA: Don't use certain hepatitis and HIV drugs together

2012-04-27 09:56:00

The Food and Drug Administration warned Friday that doctors should not prescribe and patients should not use the hepatitis C drug Victrelis (boceprevir) and the anti-HIV drug ritonavir at the same time because such use reduces the effectiveness of both...

Woman in Delta flight scare says she had bedbug bites, not monkeypox

2012-04-27 15:44:00

Bedbugs can drive people out of house and home. Turns out they have the power to stop a plane too. A Minnesota woman’s apparent case of bug bites caused a health scare that grounded a Delta Airlines flight at Chicago’s Midway airport after...

The Reading Life: Interviewing William Burroughs

2012-05-02 16:35:01

RIP: Dick Barrows (Gregory Itzin) Cause of death: Contracted a viral infection while awaiting a kidney transplant. Will be remembered for: Leaving Susan a $100 poker chip that she uses to win $12,000.

2012-05-10 16:31:00

A pap smear reveals a group of HPV-infected koilocytes on the bottom right and two normal intermediate squamous cells at the top and left. Cervical, anal and penile tumors are caused primarily by a strain of the human papilloma virus, which is readily preventable by vaccination.

2012-05-09 10:41:59

According to Peruvian Vice minister of Environment, Gabriel Quijandria, the cause of death of thousands of fish, sea birds and diverse animal wildlife that has been washing ashore in the northern coasts of Peru, is a virus called morbillivirus.

2012-05-08 00:00:00