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Do regulatory T cells have a role in human ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection?

Trachoma, which is caused by ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, remains the leading infectious cause of blindness and in 2002 was responsible for 3.6% of total global blindness.

8 Aug 2006

Older people with high waist-hip ratios have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index

Older people with high waist-hip ratios (WHRs) have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index, or BMI, a new study reveals.

8 Aug 2006

WHO urges all parties to ensure safe passage of fuel to hospitals in Lebanon

WHO warns that if fuel is not delivered this week, 60% of all hospitals in Lebanon, in addition to other health facilities will simply cease to function.

7 Aug 2006

Osteonecrosis of the jawbone and oral bisphosphonates

People taking oral bisphosphonates, a type of drug used to treat osteoporosis, osteopenia and Paget's disease of bone, should be aware of potential risks when undergoing certain dental procedures, according to guidelines published in this month's Journal of the American Dental Association (ADA).

4 Aug 2006

Research ethics requirements compromising quality of health research

Current research ethics requirements are compromising the scientific quality of health research, warn senior doctors in this week's British Medical Journal.

3 Aug 2006

Toxoplasma may be affecting human behavior on a mass scale

A common parasite found in cats may be affecting human behavior on a mass scale, according to a scientist based at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

3 Aug 2006

Factors determining the potential for onward transmission of vCJD via surgical instruments

A study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface has been exploring the likelihood that vCJD might be spread via the reuse of surgical instruments, and calls for more data in order to allay fears over the possible transmission of vCJD.

3 Aug 2006

New way to assess pandemic potential of influenza viruses

Study provides first assessment of the risk of an H5N1 pandemic strain emerging from the combining of avian and human influenza viruses.

1 Aug 2006

Lassa fever reported in Germany

German health authorities have reported to WHO an imported case of Lassa fever, confirmed by laboratory tests at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

25 Jul 2006

Inadequate hospital hand hygiene is spreading MRSA

Unwashed hands in England's hospitals are contributing to the spread of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and will continue unless healthcare professionals are taught to assess risk, reveals new research.

24 Jul 2006

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults

A class of drugs commonly used to treat typical influenza symptoms such as fever, headache and cough do not prevent people from becoming infected with the flu virus.

19 Jul 2006

Cleaning water at household is best diarrhea prevention

Clean water can prevent diarrhea and save lives, but among the world's most susceptible populations, it is cleaned best at its point of use rather than its source, researchers report in a large new review of studies.

19 Jul 2006

British American Tobacco and cigarette smuggling in China

New research based on the internal documents of one of the world's biggest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT), suggests that it been complicit in the smuggling of tobacco into China and has benefited from this illicit trade.

18 Jul 2006

Children in families with no adult in paid employment 13 times more likely to die from injury or poisoning

Children in the UK whose parents are long-term unemployed or who have never worked are thirteen times more likely than children at the top end of the socio-economic scale to die from an injury or poisoning incident.

11 Jul 2006

Retrial resumes in Tripoli of foreign medics accused of infecting children with HIV

The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV has resumed in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

4 Jul 2006

No wonder Brits worry more about MRSA than waiting lists

Scientists say they believe as many as 53 million people may carry the superbug MRSA.

21 Jun 2006

Exposure to airborne fungal spores increase kids' risk for multiple allergies

University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers say exposure to a certain group of fungal spores - abundant in the air that we breathe every day - can make young children more susceptible to developing multiple allergies later in life.

14 Jun 2006

Retrial in Libya of medics back on track

The retrial in Libya of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been accused of deliberately contaminating hundreds of Libyan children with AIDS, reopened this week.

14 Jun 2006

Hospitals, dirty hands and the risk of disease

Thousands of patients in hospitals each year are at risk of potentially fatal infections because health care workers do not wash their hands on enough occasions.

13 Jun 2006

Migrating wild birds play a key role in transporting highly pathogenic avian influenza

Migrating wild birds have played and will likely continue to play a role in transporting highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, or bird flu, over long distances.

5 Jun 2006

Hygiene News and Research

Do regulatory T cells have a role in human ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection?

Older people with high waist-hip ratios have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index

WHO urges all parties to ensure safe passage of fuel to hospitals in Lebanon

Osteonecrosis of the jawbone and oral bisphosphonates

Research ethics requirements compromising quality of health research

Toxoplasma may be affecting human behavior on a mass scale

Factors determining the potential for onward transmission of vCJD via surgical instruments

New way to assess pandemic potential of influenza viruses

Lassa fever reported in Germany

Inadequate hospital hand hygiene is spreading MRSA

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in healthy adults

Cleaning water at household is best diarrhea prevention

British American Tobacco and cigarette smuggling in China

Children in families with no adult in paid employment 13 times more likely to die from injury or poisoning

Retrial resumes in Tripoli of foreign medics accused of infecting children with HIV

No wonder Brits worry more about MRSA than waiting lists

Exposure to airborne fungal spores increase kids' risk for multiple allergies

Retrial in Libya of medics back on track

Hospitals, dirty hands and the risk of disease

Migrating wild birds play a key role in transporting highly pathogenic avian influenza

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