Mumps outbreak traced to face-to-face schooling: study 
October 31st, 2012
Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:59pm EDT (Reuters) – A face-to-face educational method used among Orthodox Jews apparently led to a U.S. outbreak of mumps in 2009 and 2010 even though most of those infected had been properly vaccinated, according to a U.S
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Meningitis death toll rises to 29 with fatality in Virginia
October 31st, 2012
Tweet Share this Email Print Exserohilum rostratum, a type of fungi, is seen in this handout image from the Centres for Disease Control, October 13, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Centres for Disease Control/Handout Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:18pm EDT (Reuters) – Another patient has died in Virginia after contracting fungal meningitis from potentially tainted steroid injections supplied by a Massachusetts company, the U.S.
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Trans fats raise cholesterol, not blood sugar
October 26th, 2012
By Kerry Grens NEW YORK | Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:03pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although trans fats raise your levels of “bad” cholesterol, they don’t appear to have lasting impacts on your blood sugar, according to a new review of the medical evidence.
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U.S. panel advises all pregnant women get pertussis booster
October 24th, 2012
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:16pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – An advisory committee for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Wednesday to recommend that pregnant women be immunized against pertussis during each pregnancy in hopes of stemming a growing U.S. outbreak of the illness, also known as whooping cough
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Backup strep throat testing may be unnecessary
October 23rd, 2012
By Kerry Grens NEW YORK | Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:02am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors don’t need to double-check the results of a negative strep throat test because any missed cases typically don’t result in additional health problems for patients, according to a new study. Researchers found that among people with strep throat symptoms, an initial in-office test failed to detect the bacterial infection six percent of the time – but those oversights didn’t lead to complications from the infection. The findings support recent recommendations from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) that for adult patients, doctors can rely on the rapid test results alone to make treatment decisions
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Substance abuse diagnoses increasing in U.S.
October 22nd, 2012
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK | Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:44pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Possibly driven by a surge in painkiller abuse, the number of drug and alcohol problems diagnosed by U.S.
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Insight: In vulnerable Greece, mosquitoes bite back
October 22nd, 2012
1 of 6. A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito on a human finger in this undated handout photograph from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Extra weight tied to higher risk of hospitalization: study
October 22nd, 2012
Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:27pm EDT (Reuters) – Regardless of lifestyle and other health-related factors, heavier people were more likely than lean ones to be hospitalized for a variety of conditions, according to an Australian study. What’s more, this was the case not just for obese people but also for those who were merely overweight as well, the researchers wrote in the International Journal of Obesity. Among middle-aged adults, researchers found that every extra body mass index (BMI) point – equal to about 2.7 to 3.2 kilograms (six or seven lbs) – was tied to a four percent higher chance of being admitted to the hospital over a two-year period.
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U.S. says death toll rises to 23 in meningitis outbreak
October 20th, 2012
Tweet Share this Email Print 1 of 4. A sample of Cladosporium species, one of the fungi diagnosed in the fungal meningitis outbreak sweeping the United States, in Nashville, Tennessee on October 19, 2012.
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Extra pounds tied to higher risk of hospitalization
October 19th, 2012
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK | Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:44pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Regardless of lifestyle and other health-related factors, heavier people were more likely than lean ones to be hospitalized for a variety of conditions in a new study from Australia. That was the case not just for obese people, but for the merely overweight as well.
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