Archives mensuelles : décembre 2012

The latest national and trust-level figures on MRSA bloodstream infections are published today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), showing 3580 MRSA bloodstream infections occurring in NHS Acute settings during April – September 2005. MRSA bacteraemia reports from NHS acute … Lire la suite →

GTZ, WHO and sex work networks share information and lessons learned – The German technical cooperation (GTZ) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with sex work networks around the world, are launching the first ever online tool kit … Lire la suite →

A naturally-occurring harmless human virus given in combination with radiotherapy has shown significant benefit in patients with advanced cancer, according to results of an early trial published online today in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Reolysin is a new drug … Lire la suite →

Kenneth « Buddy » Conant hit some clothing stores for a little shopping spree recently, but it wasn’t because he’d suddenly become enthralled with the latest fashions. The truth was, he was starting to resemble a kid wearing a grown man’s clothes. … Lire la suite →

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) unveiled its new PLEX-ID system currently in development for detecting and characterizing a wide range of pathogens, including infectious agents commonly transmitted in hospitals and other clinical sites. PLEX-ID is the next generation of Abbott’s Ibis T5000™ … Lire la suite →

Kawasaki disease is a rare syndrome of unknown origin that causes high fever, reddening of the eyes (conjunctivitis), lips and mucous membrane of the mouth, gingivitis (ulcerative gum disease), swollen neck glands and a bright red rash over the skin … Lire la suite →

A new Florida State University study is investigating how quickly the Deepwater Horizon oil carried into Gulf of Mexico beach sands is being degraded by the sands’ natural microbial communities, and whether native oil-eating bacteria that wash ashore with the … Lire la suite →

Bed bugs, known scientifically as Cimex lectularius (Cimicidae) are small wingless insects that feed by hematophagy – exclusively on the blood of warm blooded-animals. As we are warm-blooded animals we are ideal hosts for them. Over millions of years bed … Lire la suite →

Women who have had chlamydia are at greater risk of an ectopic pregnancy because of a lasting effect of the infection. A new study provides evidence for the first time of how chlamydia can increase the risk of an ectopic … Lire la suite →

During week 46 (November 14-20, 2004)*, influenza activity overall was low in the United States. Thirty-six (3.2%) specimens tested by U.S. World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories were positive for influenza. … Lire la suite →