Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: faeces http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Suspected common source of hepatitis A in Nordic countries Four of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway) have detected more hepatitis A cases than usual among people who did not travel abroad during the incubation period before they became ill (domestic infection). Frozen berries may be the source of infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-common-source-hepatitis-nordic-countries.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:16:51 EST news285405403 Syria hit by typhoid outbreak: WHO A rebel-held area of Syria has been hit by an outbreak of typhoid after power cuts hit water supplies and forced the population to turn to the Euphrates River, the UN's health agency warned Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-syria-typhoid-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:00:01 EST news280497641 How does fibrosis occur in Crohn's disease? New research has shown that a protein, known as IL-13, could be the key to the development of fibrosis in Crohn's disease. This breakthrough could help to advance new medicines to treat people suffering with the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fibrosis-crohn-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:31:53 EST news278775018 Tourists in Nepal warned over cholera outbreak Nepal on Monday urged foreign travellers to take precautions against cholera after 13 people died in an outbreak in the remote west of the country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-tourists-nepal-cholera-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:50:53 EST news264059442 Pregnant women at low risk of complications can safely be offered a choice of where to give birth Women with low risk pregnancies should be able to choose where they give birth, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal today. Although it shows that first-time mums who opt for a home birth are at a higher risk of adverse outcomes, the overall risk is low in all birth settings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-pregnant-women-complications-safely-choice.html Health Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:06:53 EST news241419995 E. coli in the countryside: whose problem is it anyway? Reducing the risks of catching E. coli O157 in the countryside is everyone's problem. That means we should all take responsibility - individual residents and visitors, as well as farmers and government - according to researchers working on the Research Councils UK Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-coli-countryside-problem.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:06:54 EST news233481948 Healthy gut flora could prevent obesity Poor gut flora is believed to trigger obesity. In the same way, healthy gut flora could reduce the risk. This has shown to be the case in tests on rats. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-healthy-gut-flora-obesity.html Medical research Wed, 25 May 2011 10:56:31 EST news225539767