An eight-year-old boy in New Mexico has died of the Bubonic Plague, and his ten-year-old sister has been hospitalized. This is the first recorded case of the plague in the nation this year. It is not known exactly how they contracted the disease, but health officials are...
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By Albert N. Milliron, Editor Politiste.comHere is food for thought for those who wish for a National Health care system run by the United States Government. The Department of Veterans Affairs is a socialized...
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A resident doctor-in-training working at three Chicago hospitals has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, potentially exposing hundreds of patients and staff. Officials are contacting all who might have been exposed at...
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Nearly One million people are killed every year by malaria.Although half of the world's population lives in areas where malaria is rampent, and these are worlds poorest countries.The launch of the vaccine of...
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Happiness loves company, according to a study which followed the emotional states of almost 5000 people over a course of 20 years. This holiday season remember that though there are hundreds of things to get...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...
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Just in time for flu season, Google has launched Google Flu Trends a Web site that uses flu-related searches to track influenza outbreaks.Health officials say the chief benefit of Google's Web site is the speed of...
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Update 2: 8/29/08 -- It may be encephalitisUpdate 8/27/08 -- 35 more have died""“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi.”...
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"At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new $214 million infectious disease laboratory in Atlanta, scientists are conducting experiments on bioterror bacteria in a room with a containment door sealed with duct tape."
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The American Society for Microbiology is helping African nations foster a scientific community that is better able to address the current and future problems that threaten not only the local population, but the...
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The University Medical Center is defending its contract with Dr. Dipak Desai - the man at the centre of the medical centres that have been closed down due to a hepititis scare - saying that they only had two...
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Let's hope Naomi gets out soon so that she can get back to work on those hard-hitting interviews and her fledgling career in investigative news journalism."British supermodel Naomi Campbell was been hospitalized...
"Revised guidelines for the use of horse vaccines in the United States have named tetanus, rabies, West Nile virus, and Eastern/Western encephalomyelitis as key diseases against which horses should be inoculated.
The Infectious Disease Committee of the American Association of...
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Geneva (ANTARA News) - The head of the United Nations` World Health
Organization (WHO) condemned the "grave situation" in the Gaza Strip
Monday and voiced her concern over its impact on the population`s
health.
Dr Margaret Chan said the spread of infectious disease was only...
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OpinionBarry ARtiste, Now Public ContributorAs I have reported so many times on Now Public about Junk Science, Researchers who rely on public money for their livlihood have differing opinions, most researchers...
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