Infectious Diseases News

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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.

"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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.