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Commission Finds That Bad Laws are Stifling the Global AIDS Response

Millions of Diabetics Could Die of Tuberculosis

HPV Vaccine Reduces Infection, Even in Unvaccinated

Urinary Tract Infections Steal From Hosts' Defense Arsenals

Robust Evidence Exists for Some Wound Care Interventions but Knowledge Gaps Remain

Humans have known for centuries that copper is a potent weapon against infection. New research shows that the bacteria that cause serious urinary tract infections know this, too, and steal copper to prevent the metal from being used against them.

Consumer Reports Scores Hospitals on Safety, Finds Too Many Pose Risks to Patients

HHS, APIC, SHEA Call for Nominations for Partnership in Prevention Award

Older Age, Organ Impairment Associated With Increased Risk for Death From MRSA Bacteremia

Researchers Discover New Vaccine Candidate for Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Researchers Find Intricate Relationships Between Mosquitoes, Dengue Virus and Climate Change

Breakthrough Drug Will Take the Bite Out of Malaria

Heat, Rainfall Affect Pathogenic Mosquito Abundance in Catch Basins

A powerful new drug to treat malaria the invention of a University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy researcher -- will help take the bite out of malaria. In the United States, a mosquito bite seems harmless, but in developing countries it means more than 655,000 deaths a year mostly in children.

HHS Grants Bolster Healthcare and Public Health Disaster Preparedness

Study Dispels Concerns About Drive-Thru Flu Clinics

Vitamin D Has the Potential to Reduce the Risk of Hospital-Acquired Infections

Next Front in Worldwide AIDS Battle: Stretching Use of Anti-HIV Drugs

New Study Maps Hot Spots of Human-Animal Infectious Diseases and Emerging Disease Outbreaks

New Whitepaper Helps Businesses Combat Flies

AHE Announces Speakers at Annual EXCHANGE Conference

Lab Veteran Invents Needlestick Prevention Device

UN Strengthens Food Safety Regulations

FDA Approves First DNA Test to Help Manage CMV Infection in Organ Transplant Patients

Insights from 2012 APIC

Rate of Community-Onset MRSA Infections Appears to Be On the Decline

No Increased Risk of Shingles Among RA Patients Who Receive the Shingles Vaccine

FDA Approves First OTC Home-Use HIV Test Kit

Researchers Moving Toward Ending Threat of West Nile Virus

Searching for an Ancient Syphilis DNA in Newborns

Researcher Working Toward an Alternative for Antibiotics to Fight Bacterial Infections

The ancient bones of newborns are very useful to recover the ancient DNA of the bacteria causing syphilis, the Treponema pallidum pallidum. This is the conclusion reached by a study led by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), which was able to obtain the genetic material from the bacteria in more than one individual, in what is considered to be the oldest case known to date. Several previous intents had only achieved to yield this material in one occasion and from only one individual.