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Diagnostic HYBRIDS Receives Third Frontier Grant for Development of Assays to Monitor Drug Resistance and Vaccine Production
ATHENS, Ohio -- Diagnostic HYBRIDS has received funding through the Biomedical Research Commercialization Program BRCP to develop more sensitive and affordable assays for the monitoring of patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV and/or Hepatitis C Virus HCV and to produce vaccines against influenza virus. The BRCP is part of...
Tags: biomedical, Case Western Reserve University, HEALTHCARE, influenza, monitor, Ohio, vaccine
Research articles 2008-06-27
Tyson Foods Inc
Tyson Foods Inc. killed and buried 15,000 breeder hens found to be exposed to a low pathogenic strain of avian influenza. Preliminary tests on the flock indicated the presence of the avian influenza antibodies but found no indications of birds with the avian influenza virus. The situation does not posses...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, influenza, SOFTWARE, Tyson Foods Inc.
Research articles 2008-06-09
Mystery epidemic hits NKorea: aid group
SEOUL AFP — A mystery epidemic spreading along some North Korean border towns with China has claimed the lives of dozens of children, a Seoul-based humanitarian group said Tuesday. The highly contagious disease has sparked a health alert with an estimated five or six children dying every day since...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, China, epidemic, HEALTHCARE, influenza, North, outbreak, Seoul, SOFTWARE, South
Research articles 2008-06-03
Mutations of an amino acid within the H1N1 virus that caused the global 1918 influenza pandemic were the main factor that allowed it to spread so quickly and widely, according to researchers at MIT, who fear that similar mutations may be possible with the
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mutations of an amino acid within the H1N1 virus that caused the global 1918 influenza pandemic were the main factor that allowed it to spread so quickly and widely, according to researchers at MIT, who fear that similar mutations may be possible with the H5N1 virus, which...
Tags: influenza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SECURITY, virus
Research articles 2008-05-01
Baby-Bulls.com's: Bulls On The Run! Report for Tuesday, March 25th ---ZAAP, PLTG, WAVU, UAMY, LBSU, IRBO.
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 March 2008-West-Main Communications: Baby-Bulls.com's: Bulls On The Run! Report for Tuesday, March 25th ---ZAAP, PLTG, WAVU, UAMY, LBSU, IRBOC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25032008 Baby-Bulls.coms "Bulls On The Run Alert" today are: Zero Air Pollution, Inc.(OTCBB: ZAAP), Platina...
Tags: Company, financial, HEALTHCARE, influenza, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., stock, vaccine, virus, ZAP
Research articles 2008-03-26
An epidemic without enmity: explaining the missing ethnic tensions in New Haven's 1918 influenza epidemic.
Although much of the historiography of urban public health documents scapegoating of immigrant and working-class civilians during onsets of epidemic disease, the 1918 influenza epidemic in New Haven, Connecticut, suggests a very different story. A large number of industrial working-class Italians made up a significant proportion of the city's population....
Tags: Benefits, Connecticut, epidemic, G., HEALTHCARE, influenza, Robert, SOFTWARE, Yale University
Research articles 2008-03-22
StrionAir Air Purification System Proven to Capture, Contain and Kill Avian Influenza Virus
University of Colorado and CDC Study Finds Near 100 Percent Effectiveness in Destroying Dangerous Pathogen LOUISVILLE, Colo. -- StrionAir, the only air purification system proven to kill captured airborne pathogens, today announced the results of a University of Colorado study that found the StrionAir air purification system had a...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, influenza, particle, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, University of Colorado, virus
Research articles 2008-03-17
Flu Pandemic: Is the U.S. Ready?
To: HEALTH EDITORS Contact: Charles B. Henderson of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, +1-314-444-8311, Mobile, +1-314-609-5972, charles.b.henderson@stls.frb.org ST. LOUIS, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- If history is any guide, a modern-day influenza pandemic in the United States would likely hit city dwellers and non-whites the hardest, based on an...
Tags: analysis, Benefits, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Reserve Board, HEALTHCARE, influenza, SOFTWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2008-03-05
Reports of Increased Survival in Bird Flu Patients Taking Tamiflu.
BASEL, Switzerland, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians from countries worst-affected by the deadly bird flu (H5N1 influenza virus) have reported an increased survival rate in patients treated with the oral antiviral Tamiflu oseltamivir. These data reinforce the World Health Organization WHO advisory...
Tags: influenza, patient, Roche Holding AG, SECURITY, strain, virus, World Health Organization
Research articles 2008-03-03
Always Bundle Up in the Cold? You May Still Get Sick, Expert Says.
Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 25 AScribe Newswire -- Contrary to what your mother always told you, heading out into the cold without your hat and gloves won't guarantee a case of the flu later, says a Purdue University nursing professor....
Tags: influenza, professor, Purdue University, SECURITY, virus
Research articles 2008-02-25
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Tags: Battelle Memorial Institute, Benefits, Company, FDA, Government, HEALTHCARE, influenza, patient, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, virus, Vyteris Inc.
Research articles 2008-01-23
Focusing Healthcare News.
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 January 2008-Businessnetwire.us: Focusing Healthcare NewsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22012008 New York, NY -- BusinessNetWire's "Investor's Update" Focuses on the Following Companies: Med Gen Inc. (OTCBB: MGEN); The Amacore Group, Inc., (OTC BB: ACGI);...
Tags: Battelle Memorial Institute, Benefits, FDA, Government, HEALTHCARE, influenza, injection, patient, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, virus, Vyteris Inc.
Research articles 2008-01-22
Texas Tech University to Create the West Texas Influenza Research Center
Amarillo Biosciences, Inc. (OTCBB: AMAR) today announced that the Company's public policy efforts helped attract a $526,000 grant to the Texas Tech University System for the creation of the West Texas Influenza Research Center to study influenza treatments, including the use of oral interferon as a preventative and therapeutic agent....
Tags: Company, Fax, influenza, Texas Tech University
Research articles 2008-01-14
The FOG of PANDEMIC WAR
It started in 1996 with a goose in southeastern China.This particular goose lived with a number of others on a farm in the prosperous Guangdong Province, known as Canton to many Westerners. As is common among birds, this goose carried an influenza virus, and as happens sometimes, it turned out...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, influenza, SECURITY, Transportation, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, vaccine, virus
Research articles 2008-01-01
Flu pandemic would catch world unprepared: UN report
UNITED NATIONS AFP — The world remains unprepared to cope with a pandemic in humans arising from bird flu, a UN and World Bank report released Thursday found. "Although a massive global effort to control highly pathogenic Avian Influenza or severe bird flu has led to improved responses to...
Tags: FINANCE, influenza, poultry, SECURITY, virus, World Bank
Research articles 2007-11-29
Tamiflu Effective for Treatment and Prevention of Influenza in Children One Year and Older - New Formulations Provide More Convenient Dosing.
BASEL, Switzerland, November 15 /PRNewswire/ -- - Children Particularly at Risk From Influenza - Severe Season in Australia Claimed 6 Lives Tamiflu oseltamivir significantly reduces illness severity and duration in children one year and older, particularly if given within 24 hours...
Tags: Government, influenza, Roche Holding AG, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, World Health Organization
Research articles 2007-11-15
Softening pandemic
School closures and other strategies to reduce an epidemic's spread can save lives, particularly when implemented soon after an outbreak in a community, according to scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Michigan Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine. They based their...
Tags: closure, epidemic, influenza, outbreak, scientist, Strategy, University of Michigan
Research articles 2007-10-01
Aethlon Medical Announces Bird Flu Research Collaborations
SAN DIEGO -- Aethlon Medical, Inc., (OTCBB:AEMD) announced today it will initiate research studies to test the in vitro effectiveness of the Aethlon Hemopurifier[R] to capture H5N1 Avian Influenza. Testing of the Hemopurifier[R] will be conducted through collaborations with researchers at Commonwealth Biotechnologies and Battelle Biomedical Research Center. Both organizations...
Tags: collaboration, Company, FDA, Government, influenza, R&D, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, virus
Research articles 2007-09-27
Germ resistance conference to begin in Chicago
CHICAGO AFP — Thousands of physicians and scientists began meeting here Monday to debate ways to fight bacteria resistant to drugs and the effects of global-warming on germs. The American Society for Microbiology meeting is billed as the world's biggest conference on disease-causing microbes. For the first time...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Chicago, conference, HEALTHCARE, influenza, researcher, SECURITY
Research articles 2007-09-16
Scientists set for major disease conference in Chicago
WASHINGTON AFP — Thousands of physicians and scientists meet Monday in Chicago to tackle the growing resistance of germs to antibiotics and the effects of global warming on them, at the world's biggest conference on disease-causing microbes. For the first time at the annual event, "the keynote session is...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, antibiotics, Chicago, conference, influenza, SECURITY
Research articles 2007-09-15
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