Is the HPV vaccine "weak science?" (Hint: no)
Category: Clinical trials
Shoddy science on a new Discover blog.
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Category: Clinical trials
Shoddy science on a new Discover blog.
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Category: Antibiotic resistance
MRSA in meats--look and ye shall find.
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Category: General Epidemiology
Facebook--catch up with friends, trade viruses?
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Category: General biology
An old disease makes a comeback in Asia; what is the historical precedent for this emergence?
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Category: General Epidemiology
Part One It appears that the E. coli O104 sproutbreak is starting to wind down, with more than 3,500 cases diagnosed to date and 39 deaths. Though sprouts remain the key source of the bacterium, a recent report also documents...
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Category: General biology
What does the realization of the cause of HUS tell us about other "complex" diseases?
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Category: General Epidemiology
Thirty years after it appears in the literature, the cause of HUS is pinned down.
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Category: General Epidemiology
First reported in 1955, several studies looked for a cause of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in the 1960s and 70s--when a breakthrough finally started to shine light on the bacterial cause.
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Category: General Epidemiology
While HUS is known to be caused by E. coli today, this wasn't the case as recently as 30 years ago.
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Category: General Epidemiology
Via H5N1, German officials are calling it for sprouts: Germany on Friday blamed sprouts for a bacteria outbreak that has left at least 30 dead and some 3,000 ill, and cost farmers across Europe hundreds of millions in lost sales....
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