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Renato Dulbecco dies at 97; 1975 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Dr. Renato Dulbecco, an Italian American virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for demonstrating how certain types of viruses invade mammalian cells to cause cancer, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in La Jolla....Tags: Health, Indiana University, Russia, Biotechnology Industry, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Childhood vaccine slightly increases seizure risk
An injection for children that combines the vaccines for several major infectious disease causes a small increase in fever-related seizures in children, according to new research. However, fever-related seizures do not cause brain damage or lead to an...Tags: Diphtheria , Health, Preventative Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Parenting
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Measles outbreak kills at least 20 Afghan children
World NowHealth officials on Tuesday reported a deadly measles outbreak in rural western Afghanistan that they said was compounded by severe winter weather hampering access to the area.... -
Measles at Super Bowl festivities threatens public health
The Indiana State Department of Health sent out a statement Feb. 3, two days before the New England Patriots and the New York Giants squared off for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. The bulletin, which advised "Hoosiers and out-of-town guests" to...Tags: Health, Preventative Medicine, Autism, Football, New York Giants
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Will more money buy an Alzheimer's cure?
Just as scientists are announcing a breakthrough in their understanding of howAlzheimer'sspreads through the brain, robbing its sufferers of memories and cognitive functioning, the Obama administration is proposing a dramatic increase in federal funding...Tags: Health, Lobbying, Research, National Institutes of Health, Diseases and Illnesses
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Malaria may kill twice as many people as believed, study says
World NowMalaria could be killing twice as many people as experts have believed, a new study suggests. It estimates that 1.2 million people died of the disease in 2010, nearly twice as many as estimated by the World Health Organization, which is skeptical of the... -
Whooping cough deaths in California vanish in 2011; cases plummet
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNobody in California died from whooping cough in 2011 -- the first time in more than two decades that there were no deaths due to the disease, public health officials announced early Tuesday. The previous year, 10 infants died from whooping cough, or...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Symptoms, Preventative Medicine, Coughing
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Oral HPV rates higher in men than women: What is HPV?
HPV infects the mouths of an estimated 7% of men and women from the ages of 14 to 69 in the U.S. -- and men have it at higher rates than women, according to a study out last week in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
Just 3.6% of women studied for...Tags: Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Tracking down Colombia's missing manhole covers
The clue that cracked the case of Bogota's vanishing manhole covers came from a GPS chip embedded in one of the strangely coveted items.
Thieves steal a stunning 10,000 manhole covers a year from the streets of the Colombian capital, lured by their value...Tags: Bogota (Colombia), Tools and Hardware, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Organized Crime
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Bird flu researcher: H5N1 work is 'urgent'
Another researcher whose work on the H5N1 avian flu has been delayed from publication because of the recommendations of a U.S. government advisory board, and who agreed to a 60-day moratorium on further work, has written that studies of the potentially...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, National Security, Political Corruption, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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The pill? Yes. New Nikes? No
If her birth control pills are covered, why aren't my vitamins?
That's the point reader Robert Filacchione of Fullerton raised in objection to The Times' editorial Sunday supporting President Obama's proposal that all healthcare plans, including those...Tags: Health, Private Health Care, Social Issues, Drugs and Medicines, Politics
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PFCs associated with lowered response to childhood vaccines
Exposure to perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, a class of chemical used in food packaging and textiles, was associated with a lowered immune response to the tetanus and diphtheria vaccines in 5- to 7-year-olds in the Faroe Islands, researchers reported...Tags: Health, Diphtheria , Preventative Medicine, Denmark, Pharmaceuticals
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