A new report given to the U.S. Department of Labor on Monday says the situation is improving. DOL is ILO's funding partner in a project that is active in 24 countries.
Measles is contagious from approximately four days before through four days after the rash appears. Symptoms begin seven to 21 days after the exposure to the disease occurred.
The SmartSponge™ system uses an RFID chip, shown here, to alert surgical staffers if a sponge remains in a patient, thus preventing a dangerous error.
In 2004 EPA tests of aircraft drinking water quality, the agency found that 15 percent of examined aircraft tested positive for total coliform bacteria.
The organizations will co-market the co-branded products, along with providing planning and educational services, to more than 50,000 NSC members.
The agency created the action plan after an Institute of Medicine panel said preparedness is urgently needed for the nation's 14 million health care workers.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will collaborate with Maryland-based biotech company Lentigen Corp. on the project.
The countries' secretaries of health signed the renewed MOU in McAllen on March 4.
The department recently released an online resource that explains the circumstances and history of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
A panel of immunization experts voted yesterday to expand the recommended ages for annual influenza vaccination of children to include all children from 6 months through 18 years of age. The previous recommendation was for vaccination of children from 6 months to 59 months of age. The expanded recommendation is to take effect as soon as feasible, but no later than the 2009-2010 influenza season.
Forty-five countries have reported cases of the virtually untreatable form of TB, which is shown at the cellular level in this photo from CDC/Dr. Ray Butler and Janice Carr.
The May 21 session will focus on the epidemiology and virulence of community- and hospital-associated Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The first study to demonstrate their effectiveness found clothing was twice as effective.
The Public Health Department's director predicts "more robust prevention and control strategies" will result.
The organization's leader says the tools are in hand to stop malaria and "quickly reduce child deaths."
The findings "offer a promising new lead for developing drugs to treat a very timely and medically important health concern," NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni says.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health have released a new study announcing their discovery that because noroviruses--commonly referred to as "stomach flu"--mutate genetically, much like the virus that causes influenza, a vaccine could be possible.
Dr. Mike Holbrook, director of the Robert E. Shope, M.D., Laboratory, a Biosafety Level-4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, deals with some of the deadliest viruses known to man, including Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Junin, and Nipah viruses. It goes without saying that special precautions are put into place to ensure total security and safety.
The passive, automatice echnology can solve the growing worldwide problem of needlestick injuries, the company claims.
A national campaign, led by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), is underway to promote Bird Health Basics--simple steps that owners of backyard flocks and pet birds can take to help protect their birds from dangerous diseases, such as avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease.