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British Man Charged in Extortion Plot Involving Tainted Food Products

LOS ANGELES -- A British national has been charged with extortion and tampering with consumer products for sending several adulterated food items - including baby formula contaminated with boric acid - to the Ralphs grocery chain and demanding $180,000 to prevent poisoned ...More

May 10, 2004

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Researchers Discover That Early Childhood Ear Infections are Linked to Asthma

Children with recurrent ear infections may have an increased risk of developing asthma, says a study published in the May issue of Chest, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. Study results showed that children with a history of multiple ear ...More

May 10, 2004

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Urban American Indian Women are at Increased Risk for Contracting HIV

NEW YORK CITY -- Urban American Indian women endure extremely high rates of physical and sexual trauma and, as a result, may engage in risky behaviors that place them at high risk for becoming infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, according to a new study focusing ...More

May 10, 2004

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Covalent Group Signs $1 Million Contract to Study Vaccine Against Plague

WAYNE, Pa. -- Covalent Group, Inc. announces the signing of its third counter-bioterrorism vaccines contract within the past five months. This $1.0 million contract with DynPort Vaccine Company LLC (DVC) is for a Phase 1 study for the development of a recombinant vaccine ...More

May 5, 2004

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NIAID Rotavirus Vaccine Licensed for Commercialization

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today a new license agreement aimed at helping to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths annually from rotavirus diarrhea in children living in ...More

May 5, 2004

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Computers Combat Disease: New Modeling Grants Target Epidemics, Bioterrorism

A new initiative will harness the nation's computing skill to enhance the ability to respond to disease epidemics and bioterrorism. The initiative, called MIDAS, will develop powerful computer modeling techniques to analyze and respond to infectious disease outbreaks, ...More

May 5, 2004

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ALARIS Medical Systems and the National Patient Safety Foundation Establish Five-Year Nursing Fellowship Program

BOSTON -- ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc., developer of products for the safe delivery of intravenous (IV) medications, and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving patient safety, announced today the creation of a ...More

May 5, 2004

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Wet Spring Means More Opportunities for Leptospirosis

It's spring, so that means flowers blooming from the spring rains and more opportunities for leptospirosis to spread to domestic and wild animals. "Lepto is everywhere," said Dr. Kenneth Harkin, a Kansas State University veterinarian and infectious disease ...More

May 4, 2004

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Researchers Identify Key Factor for Low Iron and Anemia in Patients with Infections and Inflammatory Diseases

LOS ANGELES -- Researchers at UCLA have found that a member of the immune system's defense team stimulates a chain reaction leading to chronic anemia in many patients with infections and major inflammatory diseases. The study may help target new interventions to help ...More

May 4, 2004

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Earlier Treatment of Fungal Infections in Neonatal ICU Babies Can Mean the Difference Between Life and Death

LOS ANGELES -- A new UCLA study shows that time matters when treating fungal infections in neonates and that earlier treatment can mean the difference between life and death. The findings, being presented May 1, 2004 at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in ...More

April 30, 2004

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