Topic: Contagious And Infectious Diseases
Swine flu claimed the 10th life in the city on Sunday since it resurfaced after the onset of monsoon. A 25-year-old seven-month pregnant woman, who...
An array of new mosquito repellents and lures may be possible following the discovery by researchers of a new set of sensors that the principal ...
Fido's food may be making kids sick, a government report warns, detailing the first known salmonella outbreak in humans, mostly young children ...
Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a ...
Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in four states and possibly more, health officials said Wednesday as...
A salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and led to the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs from one Iowa firm will likely grow, federal...
Questionable drug patents that put lives at risk are finally starting to get more scrutiny. The Public Patent Foundation (better known as PUBPAT)...
The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by hepatitis C virus have been successfully...
In what is being described as the first judgment of its kind in the UK, a family was awarded nearly $140,000 after a medical assessment panel...
In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 "bird flu" virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of...