The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) reported on May 17, 2007, that the Food and Drug Administration notified the Department of Environmental Management that a sample of oysters collected from Bridgeport Seafood was positive for norovirus and other evidence of sewage contamination.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have shown for the first time that an association exists between long-standing periodontitis, or gum disease, and risk of tongue cancer.
Men with chronic gum disease may have an increased risk of tongue cancer, regardless of whether they smoke, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Extremely drug resistant TB, or XDR-TB, is a serious problem in India, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on Monday, May 21.
Celgosivir is a new class of antiviral medicine in clinical development for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Researchers tested this new antiviral medicine and measured its potential to offer improved treatment outcomes when combined with other anti-HCV drugs.
A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new therapeutic that neutralizes Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) more effectively than other treatments.
As the nation ages, an estimated 44 million Americans, including at least half of those ages 50 and older, are at risk for osteoporosis, making their bones fragile and vulnerable to serious fractures.
Cervarix, the cervical cancer vaccine from GSK, has been granted a licence by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia for the prevention of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions associated with the most common cancer-causing human papillomavirus types.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a cancer of cells in the liver, is on the rise in part due to the high prevalence of chronic hepatitis C infection, which increases the risk for the disease.