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
Month: April 2013
Los Angeles is not the only county offering free vaccines recently – Randolph County Health Department just announced that it is offering free measles vaccines
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
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
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
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
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
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,
Researchers are taking a new approach to combat HIV; rather than focus on the virus, scientists are now looking at patients for an answer. Specifically,
The much-awaited springtime seems to have an unfortunate knack for bringing us scary diseases. Almost exactly ten years ago, surgical masks were à la mode,