A substitute stool mix helped to treat two people with C. difficile infections that failed to respond to antibiotics, an early stage Canadian study suggests.

Several states have responded to injection-related disease outbreaks by passing laws that require better training on injection-safety measures: • North Carolina began requiring all health care facilities to have designated staff trained in safe injection practices in 2009, after seven hepatitis cases were tied to unsafe injections at a cardiology clinic where as many as 1,200 patients were put …

Like a typical 2-year-old, Noah Galloy bounces around his family’s Plainfield home — driving his new “Toy Story” car from Santa Claus, playing with his older brother Brayden, or searching for his favored Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy. Despite the intravenous ports tucked under his long-sleeved shirt, or the enlarged lymph nodes in his neck, Noah appears to be full of life and energy. He is …

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii, an advancement that could help identify new targets for drugs to treat and prevent Pneumocystis pneumonia, a common and often deadly infection in immunocompromised patients.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii, an advancement that could help identify new targets for drugs to treat and prevent Pneumocystis pneumonia, a common and often deadly infection in immunocompromised patients.

Deborah “Debbie” Gonzales-Williams is looking to change her luck with the help of her community.Gonzales-Williams, 48, a longtime Tularosa resident, has gone through many ups and downs in her seven-year battle fighting Lupus, an auto-immune disease that attacks healthy tissue.

University officials Tuesday announced Igor Almeida, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso’s Border Biomedical Research Center, has developed a fully protective vaccine for Chagas disease. read more

New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Despite infectious diseases claiming over 20 million lives a year, India has just a handful of specialists in the field for its 1.2 billion population, says an Indian American expert pushing for this country to set up a special…

ANOTHER alarming increase of a disease was noted in the Cordillera Administrative Region this year. The Department of Health (DOH)–Cordillera Renal Disease Control Program Coordinator Shelly Aral revealed that 245 cases of kidney failure listed from January to September 2012.

NEW YORK, Dec 12 — US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia by pioneering the use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV virus. After fighting her disease with chemotherapy for almost two years and suffering two relapses, the young girl “faced grim prospects,” doctors at Children’s Hospital …