Archive for the 'Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses' Category


MedImmune Licenses Reverse Genetics Technology To Hungary’s Omninvest For Use In Influenza Vaccine Development And Production

MedImmune announced that it has licensed its proprietary reverse genetics intellectual property to Omninvest, a Hungarian research and manufacturing company, to support the development and construction of new vaccine strains to produce non-live human influenza vaccines. Reverse genetics is a method by which viruses such as influenza can be generated from segments of DNA.
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10/17/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

HealthGrades Annual Hospital Quality Study Finds Death Rate 70 Percent Lower At Top-Rated Hospitals

Patients have on average a 70 percent lower chance of dying at the nation's top-rated hospitals compared with the lowest-rated hospitals across 17 procedures and conditions analyzed in the eleventh annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, issued by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.
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10/14/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

American Lung Association Joins Health Officials To Prevent The Spread Of Influenza By Urging People To Get Vaccinated

The American Lung Association is making it a little easier for people to get their flu shot this season with the availability of its 2008-2009 Flu Clinic Locator. The largest online directory of public influenza vaccination clinics is now available at http://www.flucliniclocator.org.
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09/25/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

Simple Antibiotics For Pneumonia Are Best To Avoid Super Bugs, Says Researcher

Australian hospitals should avoid prescribing expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia to avoid the development of more drug-resistant super bugs, according to a University of Melbourne study.
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08/28/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

Silver Is The Key To Reducing Pneumonia Associated With Breathing Tubes

People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the NASCENT Investigation Group, report that the silver-coated tubes led to a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
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08/20/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

Strategies To Control TB Outdated, Inadequate

The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis (TB) are inadequate in countries with high rates of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. In countries with high rates of MDR-TB, patients are nearly twice as likely to fail their initial treatment than those in countries with low rates, according to a new analysis of World Health Organization (WHO) data.
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08/02/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses | Trackback | Comments Off

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