Tag: & Infectious Diseases

There may be something coming in the fall that could change the equation regarding MERS (MIddle East Respiratory Virus).

If you believe the World Health Organization, H7N9 and MERS are "a threat to the entire world." In truth, every...

Four states currently have legislation on the books requiring all health care workers to get annual flu shots no matter...

Few things evoke revulsion and complaint the way dirty public restrooms do. Even sparkling clean public restrooms make many of...

For doctors treating strep throat and sore throat symptoms, unnecessary tonsilectomies and the dishing out of antibioics may be a...

  Coverage of the health risk of tattoos has been revisited after contaminated tattoo ink ingredients have caused an outbreak of...

Researchers have found that people who have no children are roughly twice as likely to catch colds as those who do...

Jaws isn’t the only predator lurking in the water. Beach pollution in the form of bacteria too small to see...

Recently, according to the World Health Organization, strains of gonorrhea have appeared that are resistant to all of the antibiotics...

Whooping cough, otherwise known as pertussis, has reached epidemic proportions in Washington (state). There have been more than 1,100 cases...

A cow in California has recently been identified as having mad cow disease…leading once again to the question of just how...

New research has found that HPV can be carried within the mouth, and may be present there in approximately seven...

According to new research, it seems that we are all surrounded by germs pretty much wherever we go. A study...

It's been a bad month for the lucrative health-screening-test industry. Those of us who have been poked, prodded, scraped, and...

A team of researchers from England and Switzerland have discovered a "super-antibody" called F16 that appears to disable all of...

New research has found that there is a tick parasite that has been transmitted through blood transfusions appearing in the...

A new version of the swine flu has been identified in two children in the United States. his H3N2 swine...

In our concluding segment on the immune system, we progressively step outside the box and draw a clear line between...

A recent study that took place at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, found that lab coats, scrubs, and...

Colds and flus are not only inconvenient and uncomfortable, they can also be extremely dangerous -- especially to the very...

Pennsylvania's Department of Health just issued a health warning of unusually high levels of pertussis, and California has reported an...

The focus of this newsletter is on diseases that affect the bronchioles and alveoli. We're talking about COPD, emphysema, bronchitis,...