Summertime is time for sun, swimming and sports. Here are some tips from John Marcucci, M.D., medical director of emergency medicine on the medical staff at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, on how to safely enjoy the season.
Thirty cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a potentially deadly inflammatory disorder, have been reported since late June in a northeast Chinese city, local health officials confirmed today.
With a view to prevent any epidemic in flood-hit regions of Maharashtra, the state Directorate of Health Services has stepped up efforts to prevent spread of water borne diseases.
Three children have passed away from a combination of infections – influenza A infections and secondary bacterial infection this week in Perth, Australia.
Fever, arthritis, and other symptoms occurring in people to who have recently traveled to islands in the Indian Ocean may signal infection with an imported virus called “chikungunya,” reports a study in the May/June issue of the journal Medicine?, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) believe that blood may hold vital insights into what is happening in the brain of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, state public health director, is warning people of Salmonella linked to Veggie Booty and Super Veggie Tings Crunch Corn Sticks Snack Food.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed through laboratory tests the second human West Nile virus case in Illinois for 2007.
A new effort to eliminate Chagas disease by 2010 will be launched tomorrow at a WHO meeting of disease experts and partners. The strategy is designed to answer key questions about the treatment and control of Chagas disease, and to coordinate global efforts towards the prevention of transmission through a new Global Network for Chagas Elimination.
A new study on predicting outcomes of standard treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection found that a number of factors impacted responses, including the form of the interferon given. However, for some genotypes of the disease, few of these factors play a role.