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Although the pap test for human papilloma virus could result in a false positive, Gharib promises that “the DNA test for HPV is very reliable...
...Elton John and Diana Ross to Bill Clinton and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Performing a set of original songs by their music director, Phumlani Kunene—as well as some gospel and traditional African pieces—the colorfully-dressed choir sang about hope, HIV awareness, and combatting the virus that has claimed many lives across the world...
...Associated Press last Wednesday. The CDC has proposed measures like using a facemask and the quarantine of those who are contagious, according to the CDC website. But others say that there is no evidence for the efficacy of these hygiene tips on containing the spread of the pandemic virus. More preparation needs to be done to account for the possibility of the flu pandemic, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota Michael T. Osterholm wrote in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. “Each year, despite...
...preventing some types of diarrhea. The most common cause of diarrhea in children is rotavirus, which leads to severe, watery diarrhea. Researchers believe it infects almost every child in the world by age 5 and kills 600,000 of them a year in poor countries. (Children who contract the virus in rich countries, by contrast, usually recover quickly because they are treated aggressively.) The first vaccine approved for prevention of rotavirus, Wyeth's Rotashield, was taken off the market in 1999 after several children who received it developed a rare but serious complication in which the bowel folds...
...vaccine, called FluLaval, and distributed by GlaxoSmith Kline, is similar to the four other shots currently available (Fluzone, from Sanofi Pasteur and Connaught Laboratories; Fluvirin, from Novartis and Evans; FluMist , from MedImmune; and Fluarix, also from GlaxoSmith Kline). Like them, it is made by incubating strains of the influenza virus in chicken eggs. What it does contribute, however, are more doses of vaccine - a fact that federal health officials are especially keen on stressing, imm, since an unexpected shutdown of a major vaccine manufacturer in 2004 left the U.S. with a shortage of shots. "We are thrilled with the approval...