Common Diseases - Medical Articles

In the past two decades, polio cases around the world have been reduced by 99 percent. If we can get rid of the last 1 percent, polio will become the second major infectious disease, after smallpox, t ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia----Response Biomedical Corporation announced that at the Companys Special General Shareholders Meeting held today in Vancouver, shareholders approved the private placement ...

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 ...

Christina Jewett Two quirks in California law run counter to the efforts of public health officials who are hoping to put a lid on the rapidly spreading whooping cough epidemic in the state. Californi ...

Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1985 July 25: A wine joke by comedian Robin Williams simply could not be taken seriousl ...

While in Louisiana last month reporting on the human and environmental effects of the Deepwater Horizon crude oil spill, my wife and I made a side trip to Cypremort Point in Vermilion Bay. The highway ...

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 ...

Inhibitex, Inc. today announced that the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) responsible for reviewing safety data from the Company's ongoing Phase II clinical trial of FV-100 met, as sche ...

( National Jewish Health ) National Jewish Health has received $31 million form the NIH to lead a study of infections associated with eczema. Antibiotic-resistant staph infections, which are both a pu ...