Showing posts with label Communicable Diseases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Communicable Diseases. Show all posts
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Africa: Immigration Law Means Sick May Be Deported

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French doctors are worried that a proposed immigration law will stop foreigners receiving vital medical treatment. The bill, which a key co...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Keep Pets Out of Your Bed? - Dr. Weil

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Q Keep Pets Out of Your Bed? What's this I hear that allowing pets to sleep on your bed puts you at risk ...

GYT | Where music artists and celebrities meet to spread the word about getting tested | GYT I It's Your Sex Life

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 Know  Be a Know-it-All. Get the facts about STDs and Testing: what, why, where, how and how much. Don't stress, just test! GO »...
Friday, April 15, 2011

A Silent Epidemic of Needle Injuries - NYTimes.com

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Craig Dilger for The New York Times Medical students appear to be at high risk for needle injuries. Surgical students are frequently stu...
Monday, April 11, 2011

How Vaccinations Work | International Medical Council on Vaccination

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Philip F. Incao, MD In order to use vaccinations wisely, we need to understand exactly how they work. Until recently, the mechanism of ac...

Hospital scrubs and sandwiches should not mix | Reporting on Health

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You probably have been to a restaurant near a hospital (or a café inside a hospital) and seen a doctor, nurse or medical assis...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Hospital worker had deadly blood infection

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All Children's Hospital has contacted all the families whose children were exposed to an outpatient therapist who died Monday from a c...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Man's death tied to salmonella in Rhode Island

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An elderly man who tested positive for salmonella has died, according to Rhode Island officials investigating an outbreak of salmonella tha...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Women living with HIV fight challenges through photography

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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but for women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, a pictur...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Food safety, drug safety, and pregnancy information are among eight new topics included in our survey. | Pew Internet & American Life Project

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Health information remains one of the most important subjects that internet users research online. The Pew Internet Project and California ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

C. Difficile Spreads from Hospital to Community, ACG from MedPage Today

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Clostridium difficile infection has spread from the hospital to the community but has proved manageable thus far, according to data report...

Sick doctors who work are doing more harm to their patients than good

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Doctors: if you’re sick, don’t go to work. The stereotype of doctors is that they go to work, despite whatever symptoms ail them. Calling ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Cash machines 'as dirty as toilets' - Telegraph

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Experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on a string of city centre ATMs around England which are used by thousands of shoppers every...
Monday, January 3, 2011

CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Flu Activity & Surveillance

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Flu Activity & Surveillance Reports & Surveillance Methods in the United States Situation Update: Summa...