5% of hospital patients develop an infection. And the majority of those infections are acquired from the hands of Health Care Providers. Medicare pays 40% of the nation’s hospital bills. (This, in and of itself, is an argument for a single payer system – one single payer already pays 40% of hospital bills. And it’s [...]
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From Carl Zimmer, writing on NYTimes.com, an excerpt from Amateurs Are New Fear in Creating Mutant Virus: Just how easy is it to make a deadly virus? This disturbing question has been on the minds of many scientists recently, thanks to a pair of controversial experiments in which the H5N1 bird flu virus was transformed [...]
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This is Jon Hamilton‘s excellent explanation of this disturbing risk possibility, reported yesterday in JAMA. From Common Chemicals Could Make Kids’ Vaccines Less Effective The more exposure children have to chemicals called perfluorinated compounds, the less likely they are to have a good immune response to vaccinations, a study just published in JAMA, the Journal [...]
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World Health Organization warns of measles outbreak in Europe, which has included 26,000 cases and nine deaths.
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This is from Valdis Krebs’ Visual Complexity. This is an example of Edward Tufte’s proposition that evidence, clearly and honestly arranged, ends up being beautiful. This image was created by Valdis Krebs of Orgnet- via Visual Complexity See also HealthMap.
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Andrew Pollack, writing in the print editions of The New York Times wrote “Mosquito Bred to Fight Dengue Fever Shows Promise in Field Trial,” published on October 31st, 2011. We’ve been planning on switching to an all-digital subscription, but haven’t sorted out yet which plan. So we’ve often got hard copy (i.e. the print edition) [...]
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According to the BBC, the European E. Coli episode is winding down: Germany’s health minister says new E. coli infections from a deadly outbreak are dropping significantly and the worst of the illness is over. Daniel Bahr said he was cautiously optimistic the outbreak had peaked, but warned that more deaths were expected as new [...]
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By AL BAKER on The CityRoom blog at NYTimes.com: The first known cases of cholera in New York since the outbreak of the disease in Haiti last year were confirmed on Saturday by city officials.A commercial laboratory notified health officials on Friday that three New Yorkers had developed diarrhea and dehydration, classic symptoms of the [...]
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Brooklyn Dodger: notes a study which concludes that job strain is a significant causal variable in depression.
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From the NY Daily News: From Erin Einhorn and Meredith Kolodner Swine Flu forces city officials to close 5 more schools in Queens : Five more schools inside three buildings in Queens will be closed Monday after dozens more students came down with flu symptoms, officials said Sunday. wall street: money never sleeps dvd download [...]
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For the lion’s share of urgent posts here – reports about contemporaneous threats – I;m lucky to have good acccess to a number of physicians, medical personnel epidemiologists and other informants. But the single most useful resource is the blog The Pump Handle What’s more, Liz Borkowski and Celeste Monforton, two of the Pump Handle [...]
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the kings speech dvd FluWiki is what it sounds like – a wiki devoted to influenza. There’s some useful information here – and I suspect that when things heat up on this issue, the wiki gears up as well. Which is as it should be.
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Donald G McNeil, Jr. of The New York Times reports – Deadly New Virus Thought to Be Contained – an outbreak of a fatal hemorrhagic fever in southern Africa. The as yet unnamed virus has killed four out of the five people infected. The first victim, Cecilia Van Derventer, was transported from Zambia to a [...]
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Alexis Madrigal of ABCNews reports that Google – and its nonprofit branch, Google.org, will start tracking disease outbreaks. A new website, HealthMap, addresses that challenge by siphoning up text from Google News, the World Health Organization and online discussion groups, then filtering it and boiling it down into mapped data that researchers — and the [...]
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In mid-2003, the World Health organization reported on cholera in Iraq: rom 28 April to 4 June 2003, a total of 73 laboratory-confirmed cholera cases have been reported in Iraq : 68 in Basra governorate, 4 in Missan governorate, 1 in Muthana governorate. No deaths have been reported. From 17 May to 4 June 2003, [...]
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