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Scientists to EPA: Include women in reproductive health research

A team of Northwestern University scientists will meet with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrators in Washington D.C. Oct. 18 to advocate for important changes in the agency's guidelines for reproductive health ...

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Learning from past flu epidemics to model outbreaks as they happen

Mathematicians have developed a powerful tool to quantify the spread and infectiousness of viruses like the pandemic H1N1 flu strain, which can be used together with modern laboratory techniques to help the healthcare system ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists analyze animal use in HPV chemicals challenge program

In an article published today in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) High Production Vo ...

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Animals suspected in spread of new virus (Update)

Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Viewpoint: Patient identified with illness similar to SARS

A new respiratory illness, similar to SARS, has been identified in a man who is being treated in the UK.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO urges docs to watch for new SARS-like virus

(AP)—Global health officials have alerted doctors to be on the lookout for a virus related to SARS but said there were no signs the disease was behaving like the respiratory syndrome that killed hundreds in 2003.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Risk of post-cesarean infection up for overweight, obese

(HealthDay)—About 10 percent of U.K. women who undergo cesarean section develop a surgical site infection, with the odds significantly increased for overweight or obese women, according to a study published ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients in Denmark not suffering from new virus: hospital

Five people in isolation in a Danish hospital are suffering from a typical influenza strain and not a new SARS-like respiratory illness as feared, the Odense University Hospital said Wednesday.

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Five isolated in Danish hospital for SARS-like symptoms

Five people have been isolated in a hospital in Denmark with symptoms of a new viral respiratory illness from the same family as the deadly SARS virus, the hospital said on Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Qatari with SARS-like virus on artificial lung: UK hospital

A Qatari man suffering from a mystery respiratory virus from the same family as the deadly disease SARS is on an artificial lung to keep him alive, a British hospital said Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East (Update 3)

Global health officials are closely monitoring a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left a Qatari citizen in critical condition in London.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More accurate diagnostic test may reduce deaths

A more accurate, faster diagnostic test for Group B Streptococcal infection in babies has been reported in the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The new test could allow better treatment and management of the disease and re ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracking MRSA in real time: Study highlights benefits of rapid whole-genome sequencing

In a new study released today in New England Journal of Medicine, researchers demonstrate that whole genome sequencing can provide clinically relevant data on bacterial transmission within a timescale that can influence infect ...

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WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

Diesel exhaust causes cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke.

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Gamma rays in background radiation linked to childhood leukaemia

(Medical Xpress) -- A small but statistically significant link between risk of childhood leukaemia and the gamma rays we are all exposed to from our natural environment has been detected in a very large study ...

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