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Nov 9, 2010
(CIDRAP News) A large clinical trial in Africa has conclusively shown that artesunate is better than quinine for treating severe falciparum malaria in children, which should cement its status as the first-line treatment for severe malaria worldwide, says a large international team of researchers.
Nov 8, 2010
(CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials and the Costco wholesale chain warned consumers yesterday not to eat a California company's raw milk Gouda cheese after a preliminary investigation linked it to a five-state Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak.
(CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday said it found Listeria monocytogenes and a long list of food safety infractions during an October inspection of a San Antonio produce plant linked to 10 illnesses, including 5 deaths.
(CIDRAP News) – Federal officials announced yesterday that $1 billion worth of grants and tax credits will be awarded to thousands of small biotechnology companies to support the development of new medical therapies, including a number of products for infectious diseases.
(CIDRAP News) Two federal government agencies announced today they are joining with Cornell University to launch a program to provide produce growers and packagers with food safety information.
(CIDRAP News) Combining two antiviral drugs, oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), has been suggested as a way to improve treatment of influenza, but a clinical study from France suggests that oseltamivir alone works better, at least in otherwise healthy adults with uncomplicated influenza A/H3N2 infections.
Nov 3, 2010
Nov 2, 2010
Nov 1, 2010
(CIDRAP News) – A collection of articles published recently in The Lancet lays out a daunting array of obstacles to the global elimination of malaria, including the lack of an effective vaccine, and suggests that the achievement remains decades away.
Oct 29, 2010
(CIDRAP News) A workshop summary released today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) offers a wide range of observations and suggestions about what worked well and not so well during the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination campaigna complex, months-long operation with a cast of thousands.
(CIDRAP News) School-based flu vaccines that target children with inhaled flu vaccine can head off infections and provide herd immunity even during seasons when circulating flu strains don't match the vaccine strains, a new study found.
(CIDRAP News) In the first clinical trial of a norovirus vaccinein which volunteers were deliberately exposed to the common gastrointestinal virusthe inoculation reduced participants' risk of illness by 47%, according to results released recently by LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Oct 28, 2010
