News

Healthmark Offers Device-Reprocessing Product Featuring Endoscopic Imaging Technology

September 23rd 2014

Old Drug May be Key to New Antibiotics

September 22nd 2014

SLU Researcher to Study New Hepatitis C Medication in Children

September 22nd 2014

Influenza A Potentiates Pneumococcal Co-Infection

September 22nd 2014

MIT Engineers are Battling Superbugs

September 22nd 2014

Immune System of Newborns is Stronger Than Previously Thought

September 22nd 2014

United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is Established

September 22nd 2014

Nearly six months after the first case of Ebola in West Africa was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and the Security Council have approved resolutions creating the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to contain the ongoing outbreak which has sickened more than 5,500 people and killed more than 2,500.

Health Officials Urge Flu Vaccination for All, Including Healthy Adults

September 22nd 2014

Influenza vaccination coverage estimates show an encouraging upward trend overall, but coverage among healthy 18- to 64-year-olds has yet to top 40 percent, according to new data announced at a news conference held last week by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).

FDA Allows Marketing of First Test to Identify Five Yeast Pathogens Directly From Blood Sample

September 22nd 2014

TRU-D SmartUVC Inventor to Participate in Panel Discussing Ebola

September 22nd 2014

Preventive Measures are Key to Decreasing the Spread of Illness During Flu Season

September 20th 2014

Experts at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Influenza/Pneumococcal news conference last week encouraged preventive measures be taken during the upcoming flu season to help reduce the spread of illness and infection.

El Paso Department of Public Health Investigates TB Exposure at Local Hospital

September 20th 2014

Research Predicts a Possible 6,800 New Ebola Cases This Month

September 19th 2014

Is It a Bad Cold or Enterovirus D68?

September 19th 2014

A New Way to Prevent the Spread of Devastating Diseases

September 19th 2014

Researchers Study Switches That Control When Bacteria Turn Deadly

September 19th 2014

NIH Grant Awarded to Study Vaccine for Hospital-Acquired Infections

September 19th 2014

APIC Offers Antibiotic Resistance Information for Consumers

September 19th 2014

WHO Director-General Addresses UN Security Council on Ebola

September 19th 2014

On Sept. 18, 2014, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, addressed the UN Security Council in New York, regarding the Ebola outbreak.