• Legionnaires' Strikes Spain
    MURCIA, Spain-A rural farming community 250 southeast of Madrid is facing an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. There are 178 people confirmed to be infected by the airborne bacteria, and another 292 hospitalized with symptoms. Legionnaire's disease is often difficult to ...More
    July 12, 2001
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  • Hepatitis C: An Update
    It's often portrayed as a virus causing an incurable disease--a killer with few outward warning signs that lurks inside the body and slowly ravages the liver. For some, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is deadly, but for most of the nearly 4 million Americans infected with the ...More
    July 11, 2001
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    July 11, 2001
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  • Safety-Kleen Announces Financial Results
    COLUMBIA, SC-Safety Kleen has announced their financial results for their fiscal year, which ended August 31. The company is reporting a loss before extraordinary items of $833 million on revenues of $1.58 billion. The company has also restated financial results for fiscal ...More
    July 10, 2001
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  • Manufacturers jointly develop vaccines that make injections obsolete
    Netherlands-based Crucell N.V. and Vaxin, Inc. of Birmingham, Ala. announce they will jointly develop new types of vaccines that can be administered to patients in a needleless, non-invasive manner. The two companies will combine Crucell's PER.C6( cell line and related ...More
    July 10, 2001
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  • Elderly Do Not Recognize Symptoms of AIDS
    WESTPORT, CT-Those who are 50 years old or older are less likely to be diagnosed with AIDS before it is in its full blown stage, especially if the patient is not white. A new study from the UCLA Department of Medicine followed 2864 HIV-infected people who were receiving ...More
    July 9, 2001
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  • African Nomads Help Conquer Guinea Worm Disease
    ALEK, Sudan-When the Tuaregs in northwest Africa began drinking their water through filtered straws, former President Jimmy Carter took notice. The Tuaregs devised their own method of protecting their nomadic tribe from a centuries old African plague-guinea worm disease. ...More
    July 9, 2001
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  • UK Researchers: HIV Transmissible Via Oral Sex
    LONDON-British health officials are warning that HIV risks from oral sex are higher than previously thought. A new study shows as many as 8% of men who have sex with men who are infected with HIV contracted the disease through oral sex. Although oral sex carries a much ...More
    July 9, 2001
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  • Researchers Theorize about Manufacturing Human Eggs
    LAUSANNE, Switzerland-Scientists have developed a theory to provide women with a plethora of viable eggs. Simply replace a cell here, take some chromosomes out there and voila! A human life might just be born. The new technique created by Gianpiero Palmero, MD, professor of ...More
    July 5, 2001
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  • The Time is Now to Digitize Those Thermometers
    CHICAGO-Officials from the American Academy of Pediatrics are asking doctors and parents to join the wave of technology that has brought thermometers from dangerous to digitized. Mercury thermometers should no longer be used, they say, because the mercury poses a threat to ...More
    July 5, 2001
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