A common herbal extract available in health food stores can greatly reduce urinary tract infections and could potentially enhance the ability of antibiotics to kill the bacteria that cause 90 percent of infections in the bladder.
William Marler, a food safety advocate and attorney whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by three victims of an E. coli outbreak traced to a Lake Forest, California, Souplantation restaurant, called on Souplantation to pay the medical bills of all individuals who became ill with E. coli infections as part of the outbreak.
A new drug for HIV has produced highly promising results in clinical trials, when combined with an existing treatment, researchers revealed.
The H5N1 strain of bird flu in Indonesia is spreading, and a 29 year old man died of H5N1 bird flu infection, reported by Indonesian health authorities.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population has announced three new human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection.
New York City’s health officials and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are planning a campaign to encourage men at high risk of AIDS to get circumcised to prevent the spread of HIV infection.
Dr Nicola Low, an epidemiologist at the University of Berne in Switzerland argues that claims about screening are not supported by rigorous research or practice.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urgently reminding the public that contact with baby turtles can pose a serious health risk to infants, small children, and adults with impaired immune systems as they can be natural hosts to Salmonella, a group of bacteria that can cause severe illness and death.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of HepaGam B for the prevention of hepatitis B reinfection in certain liver transplant patients.
Screening people for Clostridium difficile before they are admitted to hospital may be one way to help control rising rates of infection, says a doctor in today?s BMJ.