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2 hrs ago | Medical News Today

New Malaria LAMP Test Kit Will Boost Elimination Efforts Worldwide,...

A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Malaria, Health, World News, Uganda, Africa

22 hrs ago | Denver Post

Colorado research universities struggle to stop poaching of faculty

Pieter Johnson works inside his lab. Other universities were interested in Johnson, but CU worked to keep him here.

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Related Topix: University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, Medicine, Colorado State University

23 hrs ago | Canada.com

WHO warns Saudi coronavirus may be spreading; calls for urgent search for source

A colorized transmission electron micrograph showing a virion of the novel coronavirus that emerged in 2012 is shown in a handout photo.

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Related Topix: Travel, Saudi Arabia Travel, Life, Holidays, Ramadan, Medicine

Yesterday | PR-inside.com

Just Released: "Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceuticals &...

Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the commercialization of therapeutic products indicated for treatment in theraupeutic areas such as central nervous system diseases, cancer; cardiovascular disease and infectious diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Methadone, Health, Pain, Las Vegas, NV

Mon May 20, 2013

ABC News

Mining town faces measles outbreak

Dr Stephen Donohue says a nurse at the Moranbah Medical Centre caught the virus from a mine worker who contracted the illness while overseas.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Mumps, Health

Scientific American

The s**t hits the fan - FDA, INDs, and fecal microbiota transplants

Judy Stone , MD is an infectious disease specialist, experienced in conducting clinical research.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Cumberland, MD

PhysOrg Weblog

Germ-fighting vaccine system makes great strides in delivery

A novel vaccine study from South Dakota State University will headline the groundbreaking research that will be unveiled at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' National Biotechnology Conference .

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Related Topix: South Dakota State University, Dakota State University, Medicine, Influenza, Health

Surgical Products

Medical Mistakes Occur At All Levels Of Care

Medical and surgical errors are very common in the hospital setting. They increase malpractice lawsuits, the cost of medical care, patients' hospital stays, and morbidity and mortality.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing

The Washington Monthly

QOTD: If austerity was a clinical trial . . .

"If austerity were tested like a medication in a clinical trial, it would have been stopped long ago, given its deadly side effects." - academics David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, from their New York Times op-ed In the past week, the academics David Stuckley and Sanjay Basu have published two fascinating and powerful pieces on the relationship ... (more)

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Related Topix: Epidemiology, Medicine

Sun May 19, 2013

The Miami Herald

ERBA Diagnostics: Rooted in Mumbai, growing in Miami

ERBA products are employed in tests and analyses related to autoimmune and infectious diseases, diabetes and blood chemistry.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Medicine, Chemistry, Science, Biotech, IVAX Diagnostics, Healthcare Industry

Tyler Morning Telegraph

Microbiologist receiving award for studying microbes, fungi

Barbara Brown-Elliott, MS, supervisor of the internationally known Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory at UT Health Northeast, is receiving the 2013 Scherago-Rubin Award from the American Society for Microbiology today during its annual meeting in Denver.

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Related Topix: Microbiology, Biology, Science, Medicine

The New Zealand Herald

Diana Lennon: Our future wasted

You've seen the pictures of large numbers of people with mattresses on the floor, small houses where families crowd together because rents are too high.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Sat May 18, 2013

CBC News

WHO concerned coronavirus spreading person to person

The World Health Organization has issued a blunt assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging for the first time that there are concerns the virus may be spreading from person to person, at least in a limited way.

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Related Topix: Travel, Saudi Arabia Travel, Life, Holidays, Ramadan, Medicine

Fri May 17, 2013

DVM

Parasitologists warn of high tick risk

Hot or cold? Drought or floods? With the unpredictability of recent weather conditions across the country, it's hard to know what to expect from Mother Nature this summer.

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Related Topix: Weather, Medicine, Lyme Disease, Health

WTVF Nashville

Depression Blood Test

Cholesterol, cancer, even infectious diseases: our blood can help doctors detect them all.

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Related Topix: Depression, Health, Medicine

Science Daily

New malaria test kit gives a boost to elimination efforts worldwide

In two studies led by researchers in the UK and Switzerland, the new LAMP test was compared to existing methods in London laboratories that deal with imported cases of malaria to the UK, and to diagnostic methods used in the field in Uganda, where malaria is a leading cause of illness and death.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Malaria, Health, World News, Uganda, Africa

CNN

5 things to know about dangerous, SARS-like virus

A new virus in the same family as SARS -- found for the first time in humans in recent months -- has infected 40 people, most of them in the Middle East.

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Related Topix: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Health, Medicine, Common Cold, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

KMIZ

5 things to know about SARS-like virus

A new virus in the same family as SARS -- found for the first time in humans in recent months -- has infected 40 people, most of them in the Middle East.

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Related Topix: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Health, Medicine, Common Cold, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Uganda News Picks

Japanese Goverment Awards Ugandan Doctor

The Japanese goverment has awarded the Second Hideyo Noguchi Prize for Africa to Uganda's doctor , Alex Godwin Coutinho for his outstanding contributions in medical services.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Medicine

HealthCentral

How to Protect Children from Developing Allergies: A HealthCentral Explainer

Studies in the past several years have shed light on why some children develop allergies, and much of it has to do with exposure to certain bacteria or allergens at a young age.

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Related Topix: HealthCentral, Medicine