http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Sleeping away from the family home is linked to health risks for badgers, new research by the University of Exeter and the Food and Environment Research Agency has revealed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-badger-habits-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:31:21 EST news275138994 New evidence from a four-year field study has shown that BCG vaccination reduces the risk of tuberculosis infection in unvaccinated badger cubs in vaccinated groups, as well as in badgers that received the vaccine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-vaccination-unvaccinated-badger-cubs-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:00:03 EST news274553759 Transmission of tuberculosis between cattle and badgers has been tracked at a local scale for the first time, using a combination of bacterial whole genome DNA sequencing and mathematical modelling. The findings highlight the potential for the use of next generation sequencing as a tool for disentangling the impact of badgers on TB outbreaks in cows at the farm level. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-evidence-linking-tb-infection-cattle.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:38:35 EST news273433106