Infectious Disease In The News
Title: New Theory Suggests How Hepatitis C May Cause Rare Immune Disease
Publisher: Science DailyPosted on 12 May 2008 | 2:26 pm
Of the hepatitis alphabet, the C variant may be the nastiest. In 1990, researchers observed that most patients with hepatitis C also develop a rare autoimmune disease called mixed cryoglobulinemia, a condition that frequently leads to cancer, arthritis or both. Now, researchers say that a decade-old explanation of how one disease causes the other is likely wrong, and instead offer a new -- ...
Title: Thallion Receives Health Canada Approval to Initiate Phase II for TLN-4601 in Brain Cancer
Publisher: CCNMatthews via Yahoo! FinancePosted on 12 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
MONTREAL, QUEBEC-- - Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced it has received authorization from the Therapeutic Products Directorate of Health Canada to initiate a Phase II clinical trial evaluating TLN-4601 as a monotherapy treatment for patients with glioblastoma multiforme , an advanced form of brain cancer, as a second line therapy.
Title: Deadly bacteria kills 18 at major Madrid hospital
Publisher: TODAYonlinePosted on 11 May 2008 | 10:29 am
A nurse washes his hands in the sink. Authorities in Spain have launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 18 people in a reported bacteria epidemic at one of Madrid's main hospitals.
Title: Injured U.S. Troops Battle Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Publisher: NPRPosted on 11 May 2008 | 10:14 am
Weekend Edition Sunday , May 11, 2008 · Marine Sgt. David Emery was manning a checkpoint outside Haditha, Iraq, in early 2007 when he was seriously injured in an attack by a suicide bomber.
Title: Deadly bacteria kills 18 at major Madrid hospital
Publisher: AFP via Yahoo! NewsPosted on 11 May 2008 | 9:54 am
Authorities in Spain launched Sunday an investigation into the deaths of at least 18 people in a reported bacteria epidemic at one of Madrid's main hospitals.
Title: Quarantined train arrives in Toronto, no infectious disease on board
Publisher: CBCPosted on 10 May 2008 | 8:17 am
A train that had been the subject of a medical emergency after one passenger was found dead and several others fell ill has arrived in Toronto with officials saying there were no infectious diseases involved, just a series of unfortunate coincidences.
Title: DNA, bacteria, chaos lead students to International Science Fai
Publisher: Post-BulletinPosted on 10 May 2008 | 8:06 am
These projects aren't your baking soda volcanoes. Four local students left for the International Science Fair in Atlanta today, bringing varied projects with them
Title: Train quarantined in Canada after passenger dies
Publisher: Update)Posted on 9 May 2008 | 12:05 pm
Doctors in hazardous materials suits swarmed a passenger train in Canada's outback on Friday to contain a possible outbreak after one person died and several fell ill, officials said. But the emergency was soon deflated after laboratory tests found no evidence of infectious disease.
Title: Cholera Study Provides Exciting New Way Of Looking At Infectious Disease
Publisher: Science DailyPosted on 2 May 2008 | 10:20 am
Scientists in Italy have discovered a new perspective in the study of infectious disease. They recently studied an environmental bacteria and it’s interaction with the environment and found that this provided them with vast amounts of information about how the organism causes disease.
Title: Cholera study provides exciting new way of looking at infectious disease
Publisher: PhysOrgPosted on 2 May 2008 | 9:42 am
Scientists in Italy have discovered a new perspective in the study of infectious disease. Normally, such studies are based upon laboratory work looking at an organism and how it works within the human body.
