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Mortality in Severe Malaria Increases With Age
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Mortality in severe falciparum malaria is significantly greater among adults over 50 years of age than in other age groups, a multinational team of researchers from Asia report in the July 15th issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information
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Norovirus Sweeps Through Britain
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Hundreds of thousands of Britons have been struck down by a highly infectious stomach virus that swept the country during the holiday period, doctors said on Thursday. Reuters Health Information
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WHO Says Only Limited Human H5N1 Spread in Pakistan
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) suspects there has been only limited human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus in Pakistan, but international test results are pending, an official said on Friday. Reuters Health Information
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What Your Patients are Reading: Calcium Supplements May Increase MI Risk in Older Women
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Recent news stories have examined links between calcium supplements and risk for MI, between the combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin and the statin alone, and between gay men and multidrug-resistant CA-MRSA, as well as studying the safety of meat from cloned meats animals, and the creation in a laboratory of a beating rat heart. Medscape Medical News
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Nosocomial Transmission of Tick-Borne Disease Reported in China
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Cases of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA), an emerging tick-borne disease that arose in Anhui Province, China in 2006, appear to have resulted from nosocomial transmission of the causative microbe, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association for November 19. Reuters Health Information
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