Common Diseases - Medical Articles

New Delhi, July 27: A 150-bed hospital coming up in Rajarhat will join a national cancer grid proposed by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to introduce uniform standards of care and reduce patien ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infections Disease has awarded a five-year $31 million contract to National Jewish Health, which is leading a consortium of academic medical centers seeking to be ...

Mario and Luigi. Abbott and Costello. Sunny and Cher. All fine double acts, no doubt. But you know the thing each of them were missing? Good old fashioned slaughter to really solidify their partnershi ...

Malaria has always been characterised by high fever accompanied by chills and shivering. But with the vivax strain of the malaria parasite undergoing genetic mutation in the past few years, patients a ...

Humanity's deadliest enemies may well be its oldest and most adaptable: the parasite plasmodium, which causes malaria. More than 250 million people contract malaria every year and around a million die ...

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company") reports that the results of the evaluation of several of its nanoviricides anti-Ebola agents were presented July 17th at the Annual Meeting of the ...

Coeliac disease cause by intolerance to gluten present in food and drinks like bread, pasta, cereals, biscuits and beer commonly affects many people all over the world. This affects 1 percent of all p ...

MANILA, Philippines, July 26 (UPI) -- At least 23 people, mostly children, have died of mosquito-borne dengue fever in the Philippines since the start of the year, health officials said. Dengue fever ...

Swine flu, which nearly caused a national panic last year before collapsing by year's end, remains very low across the U.S., with no indication it will worsen as the fall flu season nears, federal hea ...

Over the last few months there has been a rise in hepatitis C cases at an abortion clinic in Melbourne. In a new development 13 new cases have been diagnosed. This brings the total count to 35. The Vi ...

ATLANTA, July 25 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers found patients can be infected with hepatitis B and hepatitis C via intravenous administration of anesthesia. Hepatitis - Liver - Health - Conditions and Dis ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) announced today the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,763,450 for "Functional Influenza Virus-Like Particles (VLPS)". The pat ...

Officially, there have been no cases of the H1N1 influenza virus in San Bernardino County since June. With the threat over, county supervisors on Tuesday terminated the emergency proclamation establis ...

OTTAWA, July 27 (UPI) -- Campaigns can help persuade healthcare workers to get seasonal flu shots but requiring the unvaccinated to wear masks also works, Canadian researchers say. Influenza vaccine - ...

Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Wednesday screenwriter Simon Monjack died of acute pneumonia and severe anemia in May. Monjack, 40, was married to "Clueless" and "Sin City" actress ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ITelagen, a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) hosting and management announced that it was selected by Allergy and Asthma Associates of North ...

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, hailed the development of a microbicidal gel that has shown promise in combating HIV infection in clinical ...

For the third time in four months, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University ...

KERRVILLE Although a mixed bag of good and bad news highlighted all three days of the 95th Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers convention, ranchers left here much the same way they arrived with smiles and pe ...