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Humans vs. Superbugs: Who Will Win?

May 6, 2013March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

More and more, antibiotics are proving useless in the fight against many common diseases. Here's how we got here, and how we fight—and win—against these

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Valley Fever Causes Mass Transfer of Calif. Prison Inmates

May 3, 2013March 23, 2022 Lakshmi Yajurvedi

A federal official has ordered the transfer of more than 3,000 inmates at two San Joaquin Valley, Calif. state prisons. The order came from J.

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Experts Advise Cautious Spring Cleaning After Oklahoma Hantavirus Death

April 26, 2013March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

A man from Texas County, Okla. died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome last week. This is the first death from HPS in the state since 2001

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Measles Cases and Free Vaccines in North Carolina

April 25, 2013March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

Los Angeles is not the only county offering free vaccines recently – Randolph County Health Department just announced that it is offering free measles vaccines

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Antibiotics: The One Drug We Can’t Seem to Get Enough Of

April 24, 2013March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

Drugs are more expensive—and therefore more often out of reach for many Americans—than ever. This you probably already know. But there’s one type of drug

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Anthrax, Ricin, or Smallpox: Which Are the Deadliest Bioterrorism Agents?

April 24, 2013March 23, 2022 Jason Hayes

In between the Boston Marathon bombings and the devastating explosion in West, Texas last week, Americans also heard about the interception of several pieces of mail meant for President

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Los Angeles to Give Free Meningitis Vaccines

April 19, 2013March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

Officials in Los Angeles County have started offering the meningitis vaccine for free to low-income and uninsured people in response to recent cases of the

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Polio To Be Eradicated By 2018?

April 12, 2013March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

The new Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan, released on April 11, 2013 and developed by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, has committed signatories to

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Steady Increase in China’s H7N9 Cases: Media Reports 38 Cases, 10 Deaths

April 11, 2013March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

At the time of this posting, the official WHO count remains at 33 cases and 9 deaths, but Chinese media reports 38 H7N9 cases and 10

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Coronavirus Steals Media Spotlight with Promising New Research

April 10, 2013March 23, 2022 David Scales

Amidst all the articles on H7N9 in China, the novel coronavirus (nCoV) is making headlines again. While the number of cases continues to trickle upward,

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