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A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-mers-virus-easily-deadlier-sars.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T18:34:38-07:00 Approximately 13 million illnesses and over 110,00 hospitalizations may have been averted by the flu vaccine over the last 6 years in the U.S, according to calculations published June 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Deliana Kostova and colleagues from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-flu-shot-million-illnesses-hospitalizations.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T18:19:53-07:00 A study of the patients who received injections of steroids contaminated with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum from the New England Compounding Center has found that some patients had fungal infections even though they did not experience a worsening of their symptoms and that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help detect infection, especially among those individuals who received injections from highly contaminated lots. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-evolution-outbreak-complications-contaminated-steroid.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T18:16:35-07:00 The number of US girls with the sexually transmitted disease HPV has dropped by about half even though relatively few youths are getting the vaccine, research showed on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-sexually-transmitted-hpv-declines-teens.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T15:30:06-07:00 Thanks to vaccination, polio has been pushed to the brink of extinction – but can we finish the job? This is one of the big questions which a Bristol academic addresses in his new book, published next week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-paralysed-story-polio.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T10:37:07-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers with the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute have revealed new information about the latest strain of type A influenza, known as H7N9, in a report in the journal PLOS Currents: Outbreaks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-reveals-h7n9-influenza-infections-suddenly.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T07:46:50-07:00 With 300-500 million people falling ill to malaria each year, this debilitating tropical disease remains a global problem. Current combination drug therapy is still generally effective, but recent signs of resistance present scientists with a new challenge. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-resistance-combination-drugs-threatens-efforts.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-19T06:50:02-07:00 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the site of injection of a contaminated lot of a steroid drug to treat symptoms such as back pain resulted in earlier identification of patients with probable or confirmed fungal spinal or paraspinal infection, allowing early initiation of medical and surgical treatment, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-mri-screening-spinal-infections-contaminated.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T16:00:03-07:00 Among children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who had undergone primary immunization, the use of a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) booster compared with no booster did not result in worse JIA disease activity, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-mmr-booster-vaccine-worsen-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T16:00:01-07:00 (HealthDay)—Following reports of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) among men who have sex with men (MSM), the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has recommended that MSM who have engaged in intimate contact with another man should undergo vaccination, according to a report published online June 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-meningococcal-disease-idd-men-sex.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T15:30:01-07:00 An epidemic of measles is sweeping through parts of northern Syria, with at least 7,000 people affected because the ongoing civil war has disrupted vaccination programmes, Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-measles-epidemic-northern-syria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T12:16:52-07:00 People born during whooping cough outbreaks are more likely to die prematurely even if they survive into adulthood, research at Lund University in Sweden has found. Women had a 20% higher risk of an early death, and men a staggering 40%. Women also suffered more complications during and after pregnancy, with an increased risk of miscarriage as well as infant death within the first month of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-whooping-lifelong-health-impact.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T11:18:44-07:00 Fibromyalgia, a painful condition affecting approximately 10 million people in the U.S., is not imaginary after all, as some doctors have believed. A discovery, published this month in Pain Medicine/i> (the journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine), clearly now demonstrates that fibromyalgia may have a rational biological basis located in the skin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-fibromyalgia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T09:33:30-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—Since 2000, children born in the United States benefit from the research of Keith Klugman, who helped develop the pneumonia vaccine that is now part of their immunization regimen. As a result, invasive pneumococcal disease among young American children has decreased by nearly 80%. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-ally-childhood-pneumonia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T07:04:45-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Colorado State University are launching the most realistic study ever conducted into how transmission of the tuberculosis pathogen triggers infectious disease, an investigation expected to yield new insights into a disease that attacks the lungs and kills some 1.5 million people worldwide each year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-tuberculosis-transmission.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T06:40:06-07:00 A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season, with officials worried it could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-deadly-year-encephalitis-india.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T04:50:01-07:00 Researchers have identified a new virus in patients with severe brain infections in Vietnam. Further research is needed to determine whether the virus is responsible for the symptoms of disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-virus-isolated-patients-severe-brain.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-18T00:00:03-07:00 Using drugs to treat an infection could allow other co-existing conditions to flourish, a study in wild animals has shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-infection-tail-parasite.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T19:36:19-07:00 Four more people have died from the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 32, the health ministry said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-saudi-deaths-mers-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T18:30:03-07:00 An international team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has identified a highly promising new anti-tuberculosis compound that attacks the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium in two different ways. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-compound-excels-persistent-drug-resistant-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T17:43:31-07:00 (HealthDay)—Neurological testing procedures have limited diagnostic accuracy for detecting disc herniation with suspected radiculopathy, according to a review and meta-analysis published in the June issue of The Spine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-neurological-limited-disc-herniation.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T15:20:01-07:00 Young children and the elderly are especially susceptible to respiratory syncytial virus. The three-dimensional structure of respiratory syncytial virus has been solved by an international team from Finland and Switzerland. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-closer-vaccine-common-respiratory-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T15:00:21-07:00 Mayo Clinic and other researchers have shown that a vaccine given to newborns is at least 60 percent effective against rotavirus in Ghana. Rotavirus causes fever, vomiting and diarrhea, which in infants can cause severe dehydration. In developed nations, the condition often results in an emergency room visit or an occasional hospitalization, but is rarely fatal. In developing countries, however, rotavirus-related illness causes approximately 500,000 deaths per year. The findings appear this week in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-rotavirus-vaccine-newborns-africa-effective.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T13:49:58-07:00 Desiccated thyroid extract (DTE), derived from crushed preparations of animal thyroid glands, is a safe and effective alternative to standard T4 therapy in hypothyroid patients, a new study finds. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-animal-thyroid-effective-t4-hypothyroidism.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T13:49:37-07:00 Cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are on the rise in the U.S., recently reaching their highest level in 50 years. The disease can be serious or even fatal to newborns who have not yet received vaccinations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-whooping-deadly-infants-percent-adults.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T11:50:37-07:00 Reduced effectiveness of the hormone insulin, or insulin resistance, is associated with weakened bones, a clinical study shows. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-insulin-resistance-linked-weaker-bones.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T11:34:59-07:00 Joseph Pidala, M.D., M.S., assistant member of the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant and Immunology programs at Moffitt Cancer Center, and colleagues from the Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Consortium have determined that certain gastrointestinal and liver-related types of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) are associated with worsened quality of life and death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-graft-versus-host-disease-death.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T10:52:48-07:00 Fewer and fewer antibiotics are available for an increasing number of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult to treat infected patients successfully. The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina addressed this issue in their joint statement, "Antibiotics Research: Problems and Perspectives" in January 2013. The paper is now available in English, just in time when the topic is on the agenda of the G8 summit. The academies list eight recommendations that show ways to prevent the further spread of antibiotic resistance and to develop urgently needed antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-academies-urge-drug-resistant-bacteria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T08:13:11-07:00 An international team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health and Imperial College London has recently published its work on a malaria-filaria co-transmission model, where the same mosquito transmits both diseases together. Found in large areas of sub-Saharan Africa, one mosquito genus, Anopheles, carries both the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and the microfilarial worm Wuchereria bancrofti, which causes lymphatic filariasis, which can develop into elephantiasis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-disease-carrying-mosquitos.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T08:11:16-07:00 Four people have died from the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 32, the health ministry said on its website Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-saudi-arabia-deaths-sars-like-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 2013-06-17T06:04:07-07:00