Educational cartoon boosts worm infection prevention
Researchers in China have found that a health education package targeted at schoolchildren can improve hygiene behaviors and reduce the incidence of soil-transmitted helminth infection. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 29, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
MRSA circulation among children greatest in hospitals
The hospital environment remains the most common source of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, show results from a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at nasal colonization in different groups of children. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 29, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Osteomyelitis guidelines push pediatric care
US clinicians have demonstrated the benefits of multidisciplinary evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of children with osteomyelitis. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 27, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Colombian antenatal HIV testing rates reveal health insurance paradox
The introduction of subsidized health insurance for poor people in Colombia resulted in decreased access to HIV tests in antenatal care, research shows. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 26, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Childhood bacterial meningitis influences educational, financial achievement
Research suggests that children who become infected with bacterial meningitis have a lower educational achievement and are less likely to be economically self-sufficient in adulthood than those who do not. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 25, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Epstein–Barr virus linked to improved gastric cancer survival
Research shows that Epstein–Barr virus positivity in gastric tumor cells is associated with improved prognosis. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 25, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Chinese bird flu continues to spread
The H7N9 avian influenza outbreak in China is continuing to spread, although authorities believe that the large majority of those affected did not become infected via human-to-human contact. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 24, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
HAART to heart for children with HIV
Long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy appears to protect children with HIV from associated cardiac problems, suggest study findings. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 23, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Experience key for radiologic diagnosis of pediatric respiratory infection
Research suggests that there is little agreement between physicians when reading chest X-rays for diagnosing pediatric respiratory diseases such as pneumonia. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 22, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
HPV infection plays major role in oropharyngeal cancer
Infection with human papillomavirus type 16 has an important role in the etiology of oropharyngeal cancers, results from a large case–control study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 19, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Climate change linked to US Lyme disease spread
Researchers have found that over the past 20 years, the incidence of Lyme disease has increased in the northern-most states of the USA, while declining in more southerly states. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 19, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
HPV infection plays major role in oropharyngeal cancer
Infection with human papillomavirus type 16 has an important role in the etiology of oropharyngeal cancers, results from a large case–control study indicate. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 19, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Climate change linked to US Lyme disease spread
Researchers have found that over the past 20 years, the incidence of Lyme disease has increased in the northern-most states of the USA, while declining in more southerly states. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 19, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Turning up the heat on dengue
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that dengue virus particles or virions change their shape at human body temperature. (Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases)
Source: MedWire News - Infectious Diseases - April 18, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
