Meningitis News

The event, scheduled for the extended weekend of May 30-June 2, will have an estimated 24,000 alumni, family and friends reports News at Princeton .

A COUNCILLOR claims he learnt firsthand how vital weekend health services on Canvey are after fearing his 18-month old daughter had meningitis.

The student, who was not identified, was traveling to his home from school Sunday when he developed symptoms and reported to a hospital in his home state for treatment.

This is believed to be an isolated case and parents with children at the school have been issued a reminder letter of the symptoms.

Whitman-Walker Health, the nonprofit community health center that specializes in HIV/AIDS and LGBT-competent care, announced Tuesday it will be offering meningitis vaccinations to people who are not current patients due to increased demand.

A sign on the door to the New England Compounding Center requests no soliciting at the Framingham, Mass.

The mother of a University of Wisconsin student who died last month of meningitis plans to file an official complaint with the state over how her son was treated at Meriter Hospital.

After a student's death from bacterial meningitis was reported Monday morning, Chicago school administrators closed Lindblom Math and Science Academy as a precaution.

Peterborough's health unit is currently looking into four students who've reportedly come down with viral meningitis.

A Frome mother is urging parents to sign a pledge to protect their children by learning the symptoms of meningitis.

Canada is funding testing in Uganda of a popular off-patent antidepressant drug to fight a fungal brain disease that claims more than half a million lives in sub-Saharan Africa every year.

Whitman-Walker Health, the local Washington, D.C. nonprofit community health center that specializes in HIV/AIDS and LGBT-sensitive care, is advising self-identified gay and bisexual men, as well as any men who otherwise have sex with men , who meet certain criteria to get vaccinated against bacterial meningitis, which has resulted in deaths among ... (more)

According to statistics, approximately 13,554 people in the United States are continually exposed to contaminated medications, 733 currently have meningitis and 54 have died from the illness.

There has been growing concern in the community in recent weeks about a number of cases of bacterial meningitis among gay men in New York City and Los Angeles.