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New test for leprosy gives results in less than 10 minutes, New York Times reports

"A simple, fast and inexpensive new test for leprosy offers hope that, even in the poorest countries, victims can be found and cured before they become permanently disabled or disfigured like the shunned lepers of yore," the New York Times reports.

21 Feb 2013

Study measures awareness, adoption and use of informatics tools by infection preventionists

Advances in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange are shifting efforts in public health toward greater use of information systems to automate disease surveillance, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute has found that these technologies' capabilities are underutilized by those on the front lines of preventing and reporting infections.

21 Feb 2013

NIAID-funded Phase I trial to evaluate two related candidate vaccines against shigellosis

Researchers have launched an early-stage human clinical trial of two related candidate vaccines to prevent infection with Shigella, bacteria that are a significant cause of diarrheal illness, particularly among children.

21 Feb 2013

Misconduct biased fluid resuscitation studies

There are “serious safety concerns” associated with the use of hydroxyethyl starch for fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients, say the authors of a meta-analysis in JAMA.

20 Feb 2013

Healthy adults with shorter telomere length more likely to develop upper respiratory infection

Among healthy adults who were administered a cold virus, those with shorter telomere length (a structure at the end of a chromosome) in certain cells were more likely to develop experimentally-induced upper respiratory infection than participants with longer telomeres, according to results of preliminary research published in the February 20 issue of JAMA.

20 Feb 2013

Asthma patients have large number of fungi in their lungs

Hundreds of tiny fungal particles found in the lungs of asthma sufferers could offer new clues in the development of new treatments, according to a team of Cardiff University scientists.

20 Feb 2013

Working toward polio eradication in 2018

"Since the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s, no other diseases have followed suit; the goal that has come closest so far is eradication of polio," a Lancet Infectious Diseases editorial states, noting that in 2012 only about 250 people were infected with polio worldwide.

20 Feb 2013

Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation

Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation than on the average monthly temperatures, according to a team of researchers, who believe that their results may also apply to environmentally temperature-dependent organisms other than the malaria parasite.

20 Feb 2013

BioCryst fourth quarter revenues decrease to $4.1 million

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012.

19 Feb 2013

Chiasma, Roche enter agreement to develop and commercialize Octreolin

Roche and Chiasma Inc., a privately held biopharma company, announced today that they have entered into an agreement to develop and commercialize Chiasma's proprietary product Octreolin, initially for acromegaly and subsequently for neuroendocrine tumors.

19 Feb 2013

Income inequality equals more hospital readmissions

Patients living in areas of uneven wealth-distribution are at an increased risk for hospital readmission, according to US research findings published in the BMJ.

19 Feb 2013

Risk factors for invasive candidiasis in infants clarified

A combination of exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics and having a platelet count below 50,000/mm3 significantly increases a low-to-normal–weight infant’s chance for developing invasive candidiasis, report researchers.

19 Feb 2013

Clot evacuation reduces perihematomal edema in hemorrhagic stroke

Minimally invasive surgery combined with recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator significantly reduces perihematomal edema in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.

18 Feb 2013

New computational model could provide better insight into how today's diseases might strike

In a world of increasing global connections, predicting the spread of infectious diseases is more complicated than ever. Pandemics no longer follow the patterns they did centuries ago, when diseases swept through populations town by town; instead, they spread quickly and seemingly at random, spurred by the interactions of 3 billion air travelers per year.

18 Feb 2013

'Vaccine patch' could make immunizations cheaper, easier

"An innovative new way to deliver vaccines could drastically improve the health of the third world, and even the first world, by making vaccines cheaper and easier to distribute and use," Business Insider reports, adding, "The 'vaccine patch' would be as easy to apply as a Band-Aid, and would be stable for weeks at room temperature."

16 Feb 2013

Infectious Diseases News and Research

New test for leprosy gives results in less than 10 minutes, New York Times reports

Study measures awareness, adoption and use of informatics tools by infection preventionists

NIAID-funded Phase I trial to evaluate two related candidate vaccines against shigellosis

Misconduct biased fluid resuscitation studies

Healthy adults with shorter telomere length more likely to develop upper respiratory infection

Asthma patients have large number of fungi in their lungs

Working toward polio eradication in 2018

Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation

BioCryst fourth quarter revenues decrease to $4.1 million

Chiasma, Roche enter agreement to develop and commercialize Octreolin

Income inequality equals more hospital readmissions

Risk factors for invasive candidiasis in infants clarified

Clot evacuation reduces perihematomal edema in hemorrhagic stroke

New computational model could provide better insight into how today's diseases might strike

'Vaccine patch' could make immunizations cheaper, easier

Biodiversity in large-scale ecosystems may also provide protection against diseases

Government of Québec announces $10M investment in Personalized Medicine Partnership for Cancer

Patients with untreated depression are poorly protected by shingles vaccination

New approach could make gene therapy dramatically more effective for HIV patients

Depression reduces efficacy of shingles vaccine

NGS for Infectious Disease Surveillance eBook

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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