...for the Medical College of Georgia, she will have the rare honor of receiving the hood from both her mother, an infectious-disease physician at GRU, and her father, a researcher and the chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular...
...Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents UniversityWork experience: He is the director of the Microbiology and Infectious Disease Translational Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University...
...and 2004 found 57.7 percent of people ages 14-49 were infected with HSV-1."It's one of the most common infectious diseases in the world," Hsu said.The virus tends to stick around in a latent form, hiding in neurons, and then re-emerging...
...even those suspect categories are small compared with the amount consumed.In the study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers looked at foodborne illness outbreak data from 1998 to 2008 to determine the most common sources...
...Craig Smith, the hospital's medical director for infectious diseases. Where about half the people coming into the ER...effectiveness published last year in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases found an overall efficacy of about 59 percent for...
...infections.Many of these infections show the same symptoms, said Dr. Dennis L, Murray, the chief of pediatric infectious disease at Georgia Re gents University.For instance, respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus are often the...
...veterinarian's voucher approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Pets are tested for parasitic and infectious diseases before any health certificates are issued.Foreign countries are not unique in these requirements.Hawaii, for...
...debate and is not without risk, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. The benefit of full disclosure "in my mind far outweighs the risk of nefarious...
...fasciitis cases, 33 from Georgia alone, spokeswoman Barclay Bishop said.Although it is fairly rare overall, infectious disease expert Dr. Jack Austin said he sees probably one or two cases a month at University Hospital. Because it is a referral...
...contract a stomach bug or a minor skin infection, said Dr. Jay Varkey, an epidemiologist in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Emory University School of Medicine. The most serious side effects typically happen to people with weakened...
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