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New report: Federal spending for public health flat for nearly five years

Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today released a new report, Shortchanging America's Health: A State-By-State Look at How Public Health Dollars Are Spent, which finds federal spending for public health has been flat for nearly five years, while states around the country cut nearly $392 million for public health programs in the past year, which leaves communities around the country struggling to deliver basic disease prevention and emergency health preparedness services.

2 Mar 2010

Joint Chiefs Chair visits Haiti to examine aid response

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mike Mullen, who is President Barack Obama's top military adviser, visited Haiti over the weekend to examine relief and rebuilding efforts and meet with local leaders, Agence France-Presse reports. It was his first visit to the country after the earthquake, according to AFP.

2 Mar 2010

FDA works closely with different states to investigate the outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo infections

The Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, continues to work closely with the Rhode Island Department of Health and other states in the investigation of an outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo infections associated with certain Italian-style sausage products including salami/salame.

1 Mar 2010

Gender roles and sexual behavior among Latino teens: Characterization complicated

A University of Illinois researcher advises caution when trying to characterize gender roles and sexual behavior among this country's Latino adolescents and young adults.

27 Feb 2010

3M and PCTS to globally market innovative automated hand hygiene compliance solution

3M and Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc., today announced that they have signed an agreement to bring a state-of-the-art automated hand hygiene compliance solution to healthcare customers globally.

27 Feb 2010

Widespread cases of flu plunge from 49 to zero

Normally, this is the peak period for the flu in the United States. But that just doesn't seem to be the case this year.

27 Feb 2010

iBioLaunch platform technology to be licensed for plant-expressed influenza vaccines project

iBio, Inc. announced today that it has agreed in principle to license its technology, the iBioLaunch™ platform, and provide technology transfer services to G-Con, LLC, a private Texas company, and its affiliates, for the development and manufacture of plant-expressed influenza vaccines at a new facility being constructed in Bryan, Texas. The “GreenVax Project” will show proof of concept for a large-scale vaccine production facility using Nicotiana plants grown hydroponically in a contained environment.

27 Feb 2010

CHI lauds California state Assembly's proclamation of Feb. 28, as Rare Disease Day

CHI-California Healthcare Institute, a non-profit public policy research organization, applauds the state Assembly’s proclamation of Feb. 28, as Rare Disease Day. This day helps bring awareness of the biomedical companies that are dedicated to researching and developing treatments for patients suffering from rare diseases.

27 Feb 2010

AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour arrives in Atlanta to host free HIV testing events

AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, will arrive in Atlanta to host free HIV testing events over two days, Friday, February 26th and Saturday, February 27th.

27 Feb 2010

Prevention of recurrent strokes: Antiplatelet drug cilostazol effective and safer than aspirin

The antiplatelet drug cilostazol — used in the United States to treat leg pain associated with peripheral vascular disease — was more effective and safer than aspirin at preventing recurrent strokes in a Japanese trial presented as late-breaking science at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010.

27 Feb 2010

Rare Disease Day 2010: Alexion Pharmaceuticals joins NORD and EURORDIS to raise awareness

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has joined the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) and the European Organization for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS) in supporting the goals of the third annual Rare Disease Day, February 28, 2010.

26 Feb 2010

Making public policies on vaccination with limited information

"Let's say you're a public health official from the Centers for Disease Control, and you don't really know how much disease is going to be averted by vaccinating different fractions of the population," said Manski, the Board of Trustees Professor in Economics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "Then how should you choose a policy? That's really what the paper tries to address."

26 Feb 2010

Salmonella-infected mice help understand how symptoms of HLH develop

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows mice infected with the bacteria salmonella develop clinical signs consistent with a deadly and poorly understood human inflammatory disease, a finding that may lead to new therapies.

26 Feb 2010

New strategy against Botulinum toxin

A study involving the world's deadliest substance has yielded a new strategy to clear toxins from the body-which may lead to more efficient strategies against toxins that may be used in a bioterrorist event, as well as snake bites, scorpion stings, and even some important chronic diseases.

26 Feb 2010

Cause of multiple sclerosis: Researchers test autoimmune hypothesis

A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable to trigger an autoimmune disease similar to the multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work. This is what a group of researchers from the Catholic University of Rome, led by Francesco Ria (Institute of General Pathology) and Giovanni Delogu (Institute of Microbiology), have explained for the first time in a recently published article on the Journal of Immunology.

26 Feb 2010

STD prevention programs in schools: Mixed outcomes on sexual behaviors

Teaching teens about sexually transmitted infections at school boosts factual knowledge, but does not necessarily translate to increased condom use, according to a new review from the United Kingdom.

26 Feb 2010

Individuals who naturally lack CCR5 receptor have resistant to HIV

UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 - a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need - from human cells. Individuals who naturally lack the CCR5 receptor have been found to be essentially resistant to HIV.

26 Feb 2010

Study identifies risk factors for vitamin D deficiency in kidney disease patients on dialysis

Vitamin D deficiency is almost universal among kidney disease patients who have low blood protein levels and who start dialysis during the winter, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The research identifies a group of patients who are at extremely high risk of being deficient in vitamin D and provides some clues as to why the deficiency occurs in these individuals.

26 Feb 2010

Researchers keep wary eye on emerging tick-borne diseases in Missouri

Stories of environmental damage and their consequences always seem to take place far away and in another country, usually a tropical one with lush rainforests and poison dart frogs.

26 Feb 2010

NORD lauds FDA's establishment of new position within CDER

Peter L. Saltonstall, president and CEO of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), today said the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement that it has created a new position—Associate Director for Rare Diseases—in the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's (CDER) Office of New Drugs (OND) represents an important advance for patients with rare diseases.

26 Feb 2010

Disease/Infection News

New report: Federal spending for public health flat for nearly five years

Joint Chiefs Chair visits Haiti to examine aid response

FDA works closely with different states to investigate the outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo infections

Gender roles and sexual behavior among Latino teens: Characterization complicated

3M and PCTS to globally market innovative automated hand hygiene compliance solution

Widespread cases of flu plunge from 49 to zero

iBioLaunch platform technology to be licensed for plant-expressed influenza vaccines project

CHI lauds California state Assembly's proclamation of Feb. 28, as Rare Disease Day

AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour arrives in Atlanta to host free HIV testing events

Prevention of recurrent strokes: Antiplatelet drug cilostazol effective and safer than aspirin

Rare Disease Day 2010: Alexion Pharmaceuticals joins NORD and EURORDIS to raise awareness

Making public policies on vaccination with limited information

Salmonella-infected mice help understand how symptoms of HLH develop

New strategy against Botulinum toxin

Cause of multiple sclerosis: Researchers test autoimmune hypothesis

STD prevention programs in schools: Mixed outcomes on sexual behaviors

Individuals who naturally lack CCR5 receptor have resistant to HIV

Study identifies risk factors for vitamin D deficiency in kidney disease patients on dialysis

Researchers keep wary eye on emerging tick-borne diseases in Missouri

NORD lauds FDA's establishment of new position within CDER

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