TB & Outbreaks Week articles from October 2002

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from October 2002

Pulmonary lesions after treatment initiation usually transient.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - New pulmonary lesions developing after the initiation of antituberculosis therapy are not generally indicative of problems with treatment, researchers in South...

Sputum cytokine levels can help determine treatment response.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Cytokine levels in sputum can help health care workers determine the efficacy of antituberculosis treatment, researchers say. Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues and...

Beijing strains responsible for spread of Russian drug-resistant infections.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers have elucidated the epidemiology of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis strains in a hard-hit region of Russia. Olga S. Toungoussova and...

Automated ribotyping effective for resistant Enterococcus strains.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Automated ribotyping is feasible for drug-resistant Enterococcus pathogens, researchers say. "Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) strains...

Infection-induced neutrophil death may be part of host defense.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Sweden have shed new light on the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. "In addition to direct bactericidal activities,...

Pyrazinamide, levofloxacin interact poorly.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Patients suffering from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis should not be treated with both pyrazinamide and levofloxacin, researchers in Canada report. "The...

Drug discovery company hires regulatory affairs director, gears up for clinical trials by year end.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced the appointment of Donna Supko, PhD, as director of regulatory affairs. Supko will be responsible for coordinating the regulatory process for Paratek's lead...

Down-regulation of cell signaling in HPV-infected cervical cells promotes malignancy.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A collaboration of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital have uncovered a key genetic event in the progression of malignant cervical cancer - and a potential new...

Epidemiology of endemic disease in Bangladesh studied.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of an epidemiologic study suggest Inaba antigen should be a major component in vaccine design for endemic cholera in Bangladesh. "Despite nearly 200 years of study, the mechanisms...

The common flu - or bioterrorism? Diagnostic plan may yield answers.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the wake of the September 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax scares, scientific researchers worldwide are working to expand the ability to rapidly assess what poses a terrorism threat to the public at...

Genomics-based drug discovery company shows 2Q 2002 net loss: $0.36 per share.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genome Therapeutics Corp. (GENE) released financial results for the second quarter ended June 29, 2002. In line with prior guidance, the company reported a net loss for the quarter of $8,317,000,...

Test kits recalled by Abbott.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that Abbott Laboratories, Inc., has initiated a worldwide recall of 32 laboratory kits used to diagnose gonorrhea. The kits have been shown to...

Medical panel urges overhaul of military vaccine program.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Warning that "infectious agents remain a substantial threat to the operational capacity of U.S. military forces" and that "protecting the health of military personnel is essential to national security,"...

Program aims to reduce mortality by 50%.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Malaria, a tropical disease that has perplexed scientists and infects 300 million people per year, is one of the most complex health problems facing humanity. Since a past eradication attempt failed...

Radical cure may increase risk of recurrent symptomatic disease.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study from Switzerland, "A cohort of 197 adults in Kassena-Nankana District (northern Ghana) was radically cured of malaria parasites to study subsequent incidence of malaria infection....

MFSI receives Army and DARPA contracts for biodefense technology.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MicroFluidic Systems, Inc., (MFSI), a privately held company based in Pleasanton, California, has received a contract for over $550,000 dollars from the U.S. Army's Soldier Biological and Chemical...

Political stability of developing countries rests on physical health.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Developing countries stand to profit most from advances in genome science, write Samuel Broder, Stephen Hoffman and Peter Hotez in the September 2002 issue of EMBO Reports. They claim that...

Study finds condom use errors are common among college-age men.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study conducted by researchers at Emory and Indiana Universities and published in the September 2002 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases found that various condom use errors were frequent among a...

Standard vaccine offers long-term immunity.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found evidence indicating that the standard vaccine against smallpox confers long-term immunity. Writing in the New England...

Cytokine dysregulation linked to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) infection is associated with significant cytokine dysregulation, researchers in South Korea report. J.-S. Lee and...

Etest susceptibility testing may not be feasible for use in developing regions.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - The Etest method of assessing tuberculosis drug susceptibility may not be suitable for use in resource-poor areas, researchers in Brazil warn. I. M. Freixo...

CDC continues to investigate transmission through organ transplant.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Georgia State Department of Health, the Florida Department of Health, and the Health Resources and...

Mosquito relief program to provide $50,000 toward mosquito eradication.
October 1, 2002... 2002 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Frontgate, the upscale direct marketing company, has established the National Mosquito Relief Program to assist local communities, departments of health, local zoos, and various other organizations in...

Genetic vaccine can protect against Chagas disease.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A genetic vaccine against the parasite responsible for Chagas disease can protect animals from infection, researchers in the United States report. ...

M. tuberculosis forms isolated vacuoles in cells.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have shed new light on the activity of tuberculosis' etiological agent in host cells. "Knowledge of whether Mycobacterium...

UMass researcher studies head lice using artificial 'scalp'.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Head lice, which crop up on the heads of 6-12 million people in the U.S. every year, are becoming increasingly resistant to the special shampoos used to treat them, says University of Massachusetts...

Blood transfusions unlikely to transmit West Nile virus.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Contracting the much-publicized West Nile virus through blood transfusion is extremely unlikely, researchers in the United States find. "Human West Nile...

Isolated human antibodies could protect against Shiga toxin effects.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have developed a novel approach to treating conditions caused by the microbial Shiga toxin. "Hemolytic-uremic syndrome...

CDC continues to track disease in United States.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to work with state and local health departments to help control West Nile virus (WNV). At press time 1438 cases of West Nile...

Study finds outbreak of Cipro web sites followed mail attacks.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Web sites selling the prescription-only medication ciprofloxacin (also known by its brand name Cipro) sprang up quickly following an anthrax outbreak in October 2001, according to a new study by...

FDA proposes new industry draft guidance for evaluating safety of antimicrobial new animal drugs.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance document entitled "Guidance for Industry: Evaluating the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with...

FDA accepts Zyvox for review.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pharmacia Corp. (PHA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the supplemental new drug application (sNDA) of Zyvox (linezolid injection, tablets and for oral...

Vaccination now required for elementary, secondary school enrollment.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New Mexico and Mississippi join 38 states (plus the District of Columbia) that now require the chickenpox vaccine for day care, public school, or both. In addition, several states now have similar...

Chlorine dioxide gas kills dangerous biological contaminants.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The same sanitizing agent used to rid federal office buildings of anthrax - chlorine dioxide gas - can effectively eliminate deadly bacteria from apples and other fruits and vegetables, according to...

Experts discuss better germ control.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People come into contact with others up to 1000 times more frequently than they did a century ago and infectious disease experts say scientists need to better understand human behavior and movement in...

PKIDs begins HIV and hepatitis prevention work in China.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. nonprofit organization PKIDs (Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases) has announced the creation of a new PKIDs in China. Work begins this fall to educate communities in China about...

NFID encourages Americans to follow CDC flu vaccination schedule.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As influenza vaccination recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) go into effect, and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has issued an...

Recent influenza A strains in Canada have evolved from two variants.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Infectious disease researchers in Canada are delving into the evolutionary history of influenza strains in that country. "Limited information is available concerning the molecular drift of the...

FDA approves new safety data for Malarone.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the addition of new safety data to the prescribing information of GlaxoSmithKline's Malarone (atovaquone and proguanil hydrochloride) Tablets,...

Outbreak is spreading in Rwanda, UNICEF warns.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A meningitis outbreak in Rwanda is threatening the lives of some 2 million people amid fears that the disease may spread close to Kigali, the capital, endangering another 1 million residents, the United...

Pneumococcal serotype 1 associated with complicated pneumonia, study finds.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from the United States, "the frequency of children who are hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia complicated by necrosis, empyema/complicated parapneumonic effusion, and...

India concerned by surge of polio cases.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Indian Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha said September 9, 2002, he was concerned by a sharp rise in polio cases in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Health ministry officials say the number of...

Reasons for nonimmunization of children in north India identified.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified several factors contributing to lack of immunization in low income children in New Delhi, India. Of 500 children under age 5, "[o]nly 25% were found to have received...

Maternal vaccination could control RSV in at-risk children in Mozambique.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers recommend that mothers of very young children at high risk of infection with respiratory syncytial virus should be vaccinated against the infectious pathogen. In a case-control study in...

Complete response filed to FDA approvable letter for Ketek.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing a complete response to the agency's June 1, 2001, approvable letter for Ketek (telithromycin) tablets (800 mg...

Arizona study shows many youth engage in unprotected sex.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About 91% of teens in drug treatment programs have had sexual intercourse and used condoms only half the time, according to a new study. A University of Arizona researcher revealed the findings from...

Early vaccine results encouraging.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A British biotechnology company has reported "encouraging" results from an early-stage trial of its smallpox vaccine. Acambis PLC compared its ACAM1000 vaccine and the vaccine widely used during...

Groups at risk for severe reactions from vaccine.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Smallpox vaccines could do more harm than good for people with AIDS or allergic skin diseases, according to research presented in the September 2002 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical...

Some vaccines recommended.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials are recommending that smallpox vaccinations be given to about 250,000-500,000 people, including hospital and emergency workers most likely to...

CDC confirms West Nile transmitted through donated organs.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Having confirmed that West Nile virus can be spread through organ transplants, U.S. health officials have found new evidence that it may be transmitted through blood transfusions as well. The U.S....

NIH grant awarded for rapid diagnostic testing of tuberculosis.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cepheid (CPHD) announced that it has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop rapid diagnostic tests for Mycobacteria tuberculosis. The project, which is a...

Study results indicate tb revaccination not warranted in japanese children.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An assessment of the economics of revaccinating Japanese children for tuberculosis finds the practice is unnecessary. "Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) revaccination has been implemented in Japan...

Twenty-two infected in Alabama outbreak.
October 8, 2002... 2002 OCT 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An Alabama shrimp fisherman whose tuberculosis went untreated for months has infected at least 22 other people, officials say. The 31-year-old man, whose name was not released, had laryngeal...

Rifampicin-amikacin regimen effective against Mycobacterium ulcerans.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in France say that a regimen of rifampicin (RIF) and amikacin (AMK) is effective against Mycobacterium ulcerans, the pathogen responsible for a...

Mycobacterium bovis BCG inoculation may improve early response.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - A vaccine based on Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) can improve the immune response to tuberculosis infection, researchers say. ...

GSQ1530 could be effective against drug-resistant microbes.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States say that a novel antimicrobial agent shows promise against drug-resistant pathogens. "GSQ1530 is a compound derived from...

Pennsylvania Health Department investigates Listeria infections.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pennsylvania Health Secretary Robert S. Zimmerman, Jr., announced that his department and the Philadelphia Department of Health are conducting an investigation into cases of Listeria monocytogenes that...

New strain hits Africa.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The emergence of a newly epidemic strain of meningitis in West Africa earlier this year has given renewed urgency to the search for a more effective and affordable vaccine. The World Health...

European patents awarded for D-amino acid peptides.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Demegen, Inc., (DBOT), a biotechnology company specializing in developing antimicrobial peptides for the treatment of infectious diseases, announced it had been awarded European patent 0832120 titled...

Pyrosequencing secures access to intellectual property for bacterial identification.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pyrosequencing AB (PYROA) announced that the company has secured access to intellectual property covering the use of the RNase P gene for identifying clinically relevant bacteria. The RNase P...

UT Southwestern researchers develop vaccine against ricin.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have developed a vaccine in mice against the deadly toxin ricin. Ricin has been used as a biological weapon in many parts of the world. ...

Novel strategies to be developed against bioterrorism agents.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cyntellect, the R&D spinoff of Oncosis, Inc., announced that Oncosis has received a SBIR grant to study the effectiveness of anti-NFkB thioaptamers as protection against potential bioterrorism pathogen...

Quick-Med begins trading.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Quick-Med Technologies, Inc., (QMDT) announced that its common stock has begun trading on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol QMDT. Quick-Med Technologies (QMT) is a biotech/medical device...

Lowes foods to offer irradiated fresh ground beef.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Lowes Foods began offering irradiated fresh ground beef to consumers at 48 of its 105 stores on September 10. The beef will be available in 1-pound packages of 93% lean ground beef and in 93% lean...

Experts warn on food supply attack.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States is vulnerable to terrorism aimed at farms that produce the nation's food, scientists say. Such an attack could easily happen, the National Research Council said in a report...

Research shows improvements in safe food handling by consumers.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. Consumers continue to improve their food safety practices, according to research findings released September 18, 2002, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health and...

Egg yolk a possible alternative to antibiotic treatment of ulcers.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antibodies from the egg yolks of immunized chickens may be an effective alternative to antibiotic treatment of Helicobacter pylori infections, say Korean researchers in the September 2002 issue of the...

Marketing and distribution network for anthrax test expanded.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Response Biomedical Corp. (RBM) has announced a series of regional, national, and international marketing agreements to accelerate market adoption of the company's RAMP Anthrax Test. On May 29,...

Study links parasites, life spans.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Male mammals are bigger and juicier targets for parasites than females, and two Scottish scientists suggest that may be one reason the males often have shorter life spans. Kenneth Wilson and Sarah...

Fusion of pneumococcal surface adhesin and cytokine genes increases efficacy.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in the United States have found a novel technique for improving the efficacy of an antipneumococcal vaccine. "Immunization of mice with...

Dimension Data launches Health Alert Network to help combat bioterrorism.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Increased risk for potential major bioterrorist activities has raised an immediate need for comprehensive systems to share information quickly and securely. Dimension Data Holdings, plc, (DDT), a...

Chronic skin ulceration likely due to repeated trauma.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mycobacteria researchers conducted a study on "whether peripheral nerve damage in patients with leprosy impairs local cellular immune responses, thereby reducing wound healing and leading to chronic...

Paratek awarded NIH grant to search for antimalarial tetracyclines.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that it received a phase I Small Business Innovative Research grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The grant was awarded...

Microscience now able to deliver DNA vaccines orally.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Microscience - a British biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of vaccines - has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the University System of Maryland (USM). ...

Helicobacter pylori infection may cause iron deficiency in children.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pediatricians at Seoul National University suggest that, in children, Helicobacter pylori infection may lead to iron deficiency. "Helicobacter pylori infection is known to affect iron metabolism...

Life expectancy rose in the Americas, PAHO report shows.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Life expectancy at birth rose by 6 years throughout the Americas between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, mostly because a reduced risk of dying from communicable and cardiovascular diseases,...

Bush vaccine plan begins with health workers, moves to general public.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Smallpox vaccine would be offered first to hospital emergency workers and slowly extended to other doctors, nurses, police and, eventually, the general public, under a Bush administration plan in the...

Scholars make a case for mass vaccination.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Yale University researchers say mass vaccination in the event that the smallpox virus is released in the U.S. would result in many fewer deaths and eradicate more quickly any resulting epidemic than...

Detroit health department fires two employees in shakeup over outbreak.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Detroit officials, faulted by federal health authorities for not curbing a syphilis outbreak, have fired two health department employees in an agency shakeup. The two Detroit Health Department...

Maxwell's PurePulse subsidiary suspends operations.
October 15, 2002... 2002 OCT 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Maxwell Technologies, Inc., (MXWL) announced that its PurePulse Technologies subsidiary has suspended operations. PurePulse develops systems that employ flashes of intense, broad-spectrum, pulsed...

Being under 16 triples risk among sexual health clinic clients.
October 22, 2002... 2002 OCT 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Girls under 16 are three times as likely to have an infection caught through sex as other women, reveals research from one London genitourinary medicine clinic in Sexually Transmitted Infections. ...

Nramp1 mutations linked to heightened disease severity.
October 22, 2002... 2002 OCT 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Denmark have identified a genetic risk factor for severe tuberculosis disease. "The natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1...

Scientists and health groups call for removal of N-9 from condoms, lubricants.
October 22, 2002... 2002 OCT 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A broad-based coalition of more than 85 leading scientists and health groups have issued a statement calling upon manufacturers of condoms and lubricants to voluntarily remove nonoxyonol-9 (N-9) from...

Antibiotic cycling may reduce risk for pediatric intensive care patients.
October 22, 2002... 2002 OCT 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Periodically changing antibiotic treatment may help prevent infection outbreaks in pediatric intensive care units, researchers say. William J. Moss and...