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China Hails End of Ebola Outbreak in Guinea

Dec 31, 2015

China on Wednesday hailed the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday declaring the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. "This is a big victory in the fight against Ebola in West Africa. We ...

Tags: Ebola Outbreak

China's Ebola Vaccine Used in Clinical Trials in Sierra Leone

Dec 29, 2015

A vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese scientists has undergone clinical trials in Sierra Leone. The public relations officer at the Ministry of Health Abbas Kamara says there have been no "adverse reports and side ...

Tags: Ebola Vaccine, Clinical Trials

UC Berkley Bioengineers Use LED Lights to Speed up DNA Replication

Nov 12, 2015

New technology developed by UC Berkeley bioengineers promises to make a workhorse lab tool cheaper, more portable and many times faster by accelerating the heating and cooling of genetic samples with the switch of a light. ...

Tags: PCR, LED Lights

Julien Vandelli Finds Magic in Traditional Medicine

Oct 29, 2015

French sportsman Julien Vandelli didn't foresee that he would spend five years reading the abstruse ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing in a Chinese university, where he practices acupuncture and medical massage. However, the ...

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Sportsman Finds Magic in Traditional Medicine

Oct 6, 2015

French sportsman Julien Vandelli didn't foresee that he would spend five years reading the abstruse ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing in a Chinese university, where he practices acupuncture and medical massage. However, the ...

Tags: Traditional Medicine, vitamin injections

Debate Around Raw Milk Continues Mountain View Farm Recalled Organic Bath Milk Product

Dec 16, 2014

The debate around raw milk continues after dairy company Mountain View Farm recalled its Organic Bath Milk product. The recall came after the product was implicated in the death of a three-year-old child, who had consumed it. ACCC to ...

Tags: milk recall, Food Science, Agriculture

Hookah Smoking Is Not Safer Than Cigarette Smoking

May 1, 2014

Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as narghile, shisha and goza, a hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber, a bowl, a pipe and a hose. Specially made tobacco is heated, and the smoke passes through water ...

Tags: Hookah Smoking, Cigarettes, E Cigarettes

The Research Was Published in The Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Mar 6, 2014

A study looking at pathogen transmission during the translocation of endangered western ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) has provided an insight into assessing the disease risk for populations. The research from Murdoch ...

Tags: Predators, Outweigh, Disease

A Simple Change May Help Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Patient Safety

Mar 5, 2014

A simple change in how the hospital laboratory reports test results may help improve antibiotic prescribing practices and patient safety, according to a pilot, proof-of-concept study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now ...

Tags: Hospital, Laboratory Reports, Antibiotic

The Need to Prevent and Control Healthcare Acquired Infections Across Europe

Mar 3, 2014

The need to prevent and control healthcare acquired infections (HCAI) across Europe, which results in 4.5 to 5 million cases annually, is driving the hand hygiene market in Western Europe. Outbreaks of norovirus and bird flu over the past ...

Tags: Healthcare, Drive Hand Hygiene

Discovery by North Carolina Researchers May Advance Development of Vaccines

Mar 3, 2014

Discovery by North Carolina researchers described at biophysical society meeting may advance development of vaccines to fight global, mosquito-borne scourge Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, ...

Tags: Dengue Virus

Societal Pressures Has a Direct Effect on The Spread of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Feb 18, 2014

Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...

Tags: Health, Medicine

Getting Tested and Treated for The Flu and Strep Throat Became Much Easier

Feb 14, 2014

Getting tested and treated for the flu and strep throat became much easier today in Omaha. It's now as convenient as a trip to the grocery store. Hy-Vee, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of ...

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Acentia Secures a Contract Worth $1.25m From DOH to Provide NBS

Feb 10, 2014

US-based Acentia has secured a contract worth $1.25m from the State of Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH) to provide its secure cloud-based national electronic disease surveillance system base system (NBS) for the DOH’s Division ...

Tags: Acentia, Cloud-Based Nbs

Besides Hand Washing,Daily Zinc Supplements Appeared to Help Kids Avoid Colds

Feb 10, 2014

MONDAY Jan.27,2014,2014--The cold season is in full swing,with everyone swearing by their own methods for avoiding infection or treating themselves should they get sick. Now,a new review finds that some methods seem to work better than ...

Tags: Hand Washing, Zinc use, Zinc

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