http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Public health agencies in five U.S. states are assessing the rabies risk for hundreds of people who may have had close contact with an infected organ donor and four transplant recipients, one of whom died, officials said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-hundreds-rabies-transplant-death.html Other Sun, 17 Mar 2013 08:48:27 EST news282728900 China reported two human cases of bird flu in the southwestern city of Guiyang on Sunday, with both patients in a critical condition, the official Xinhua news agency said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-china-human-cases-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:08:47 EST news279731320 Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in Egypt. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-polio-virus-egypt-linked-pakistan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:01:56 EST news278006511 (AP)—More than 300 directors of some 140 health centers in Madrid resigned from their posts Tuesday to protest plans to partly privatize the region's public health service. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-madrid-health-center-directors-en.html Health Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:47:06 EST news276867970 Mozambican doctors launched a strike on Monday over pay and working conditions after talks broke down with the government, the country's doctors association said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mozambique-doctors.html Health Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:57:23 EST news276778632 (AP)—Thousands of Spanish medical workers marched through downtown Madrid on Monday to protest against budget cuts and plans to partly privatize their cherished national health service. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-large-spanish-protest-health-privatization.html Health Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:12:48 EST news276775953 Pakistan is providing paramilitary and police support to polio vaccinations being resumed discreetly in the northwest after a series of attacks on medical workers, officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-pakistan-resumes-polio-vaccines-tight.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:18:17 EST news276498489 (AP)—Thousands of Spanish medical workers and residents angered by budget cuts and plans to partly privatize the cherished national health service marched through some of Madrid's most famous squares on Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-thousands-protest-spain-health-austerity.html Health Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:30:02 EST news274275813 Lies Van Nieuwenhove, researcher at the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, has produced proteins imitating typical parts of the sleeping sickness parasite. They can be used in more efficient diagnostic tests, without the need for culturing dangerous parasites. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-sickness.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 22 May 2012 10:50:18 EST news256902584 A Vietnamese man was in a stable condition in hospital Friday after doctors removed a giant tumour from his right leg that weighed more than the rest of his body, hospital officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-vietnamese-stable-giant-tumour.html Other Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:45:38 EST news245065531 (AP) -- A human rights group said Tuesday it has filed claims with the United Nations seeking damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-haiti-group-demands-cholera-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:39:04 EST news240035688