by Research Team | Mar 21, 2015 | Health News
Health officials say they found no active tuberculosis cases among infants possibly exposed to a TB-infected El Paso hospital worker. The El Paso health department announced Thursday that it’s wrapped up its seven-month investigation of the potential exposures...
by Research Team | Mar 21, 2015 | Health News
Safety experts slam lax safety practices at CDC labs Safety advisers express concern the federal agency is “losing credibility” on lab safety. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://usat.ly/1bix1kY A panel of safety experts appointed by the CDC...
by Research Team | Mar 21, 2015 | Health News
Biogen Idec released much anticipated results from a study of a potential Alzheimer’s disease treatment on Friday, showing that it slowed cognitive decline in some patients. In December, the biotechnology company said the developing drug aducanumab reduced a...
by Research Team | Mar 21, 2015 | Health News
More than half of the undergraduates at the University of Oregon have not been vaccinated against meningitis, despite the fact that one student has died and five others have been sickened since January. About 13,000 of the university’s 22,000 undergraduates,...
by Research Team | Mar 21, 2015 | Health News
The Obama administration says it’s making progress trying to correct a tax-form error that affected 820,000 customers of HealthCare.gov. Administration officials said Friday that 740,000 corrected forms have gone out, and another 80,000 will be mailed next...
