Infectious Disease

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I reported earlier on the Collaborative Software Initiative's important work with the State of Utah on an Infectious Disease surveillance system. This week CSI and the State of Utah announced that the system has been open sourced as the Trisano Project: TriSano is an open source, citizen-focused Infectious Disease ... ...

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NEW YORK, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Mergent, Inc. ...

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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vical Incorporated ( NASDAQ:VICL) today announced a research collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, a leading European medical university, and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control ...

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 11 days ago
Related Articles Roel coutinho-director of the centre for Infectious Disease control Netherlands. Lancet Infect Dis. 2008 Sep;8(9):539-42 Authors: Vandenbruaene M In 2005, Roel Coutinho became the first director of the Netherlands' new national coordination centre for Infectious diseases. After graduating in medicine in 1972 from Amsterdam University, and a sojourn as a physician in tropical medicine in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, Coutinho returned to the Netherlands to specialise as a medical microbiologist. Coutinho joined the Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam in 1977 as the head of the Public Health Department, where in 1984 he completed a PhD on sexually transmitted diseases among men who have sex with men. He was one of the founders of the Amsterdam cohort studies. In 1989, Coutinho was appointed Professor in the Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam. In 2000 he became General Director of the Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam, a post he occupied until joining the RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) in 2005. PMID: 18718439 [PubMed - in process] ...

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'Web-based electronic information sources can play an important role in early event detection and support situational awareness by providing current, highly local information about outbreaks, even from areas relatively invisible to traditional global ...

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Washington, July 8 : Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets could be an informative source of information on Disease outbreaks, according to researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. ...

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Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets could be an informative source of information on Disease outbreaks, according to researchers from Children''s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. ...

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Related Articles Infectious Disease - Use of a Rifaximin "Chaser" in the Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea. Rev Gastroenterol Disord. 2008;8(2):157-8 Authors: Oldfield EC PMID: 18641597 [PubMed - in process] ...

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Related Articles Infectious Disease complications of combat-related injuries. Crit Care Med. 2008 Jul;36(7 Suppl):S358-64 Authors: Murray CK BACKGROUND:: Strategies currently used to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with combat-related injuries include better training of frontline medical personnel, improved personal protective equipment, and deployment of fast-forward surgical assets with state-of-the-art equipment. These strategies allow patients to survive near-catastrophic injuries, placing a greater emphasis on the medical infrastructure to mitigate short- and long-term complications associated with these injuries. DISCUSSION:: Wounds have certain characteristics that promote the development of infections: the presence of devitalized tissue, foreign bodies, clots, fluid collections, and contamination of wounds with bacteria from the casualty's skin, the environment, and the hospital. All of these factors culminate in placing the casualty at risk of developing an infection. SUMMARY:: This article reviews the lessons learned from combat-related wound infections throughout history and in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the management strategies used to prevent infections of combat-related injuries are applicable to the management of civilian trauma, whether associated with small arms fire or related to natural disasters such as earthquakes or tornadoes. PMID: 18594263 [PubMed - in process] ...

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Quintiles Transnational Corp. is teaming with DynPort Vaccine Co. LLC to establish and operate a phase 1 clinical trials unit to test Infectious Disease therapeutics in a seven-year federal contract worth an estimated $32.3 million. (CSC) ...

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Penn State researchers will be part of an international team led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to help evaluate new vaccines that will have the best chances of stopping the global outbreaks of Infectious diseases. The project has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.... ...

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A system that mines the Web's data sources for hints of Infectious Disease outbreaks could serve as an early-warning system for illnesses. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 49 days ago
The House of Lords Select Committee on Intergovernmental Organisations will next week publish its report on the spread of Infectious diseases and the role of intergovernmental organisations in dealing with that threat. ...

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World Health Network Aug 12 2008 6:50PM GMT ...

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Amphibians, reigning survivors of past mass extinctions, are sending a clear, unequivocal signal that something is wrong, as their extinction rates rise to unprecedented levels, according to a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Humans are exacerbating two key natural threats - climate change and a deadly Disease that is jumping from one species to another. ...

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Could Internet discussion forums, listservs and online news outlets be an informative source of information on Disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online intelligence. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 33 days ago
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding confirming their agreement to work in partnership for projects aimed at strengthening Infectious Disease diagnosis and service integration in resource-poor and transitional countries. ...