Experimental Ebola Vaccines Appear Safe in Phase 2 Liberian Clinical Trial

Liberia–U.S. partnership planning Phase 3 trial and study of Ebola survivors
Two experimental Ebola vaccines appear to be safe based on evaluation in more than 600 people in Liberia who participated in the first stage of the Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccines in Liberia (PREVAIL) Phase 2/3 clinical trial, according to interim findings from an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board review.

Sun Pharma Concludes Take Over Merger Of Ranbaxy Laboratories

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, the multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, few days ago on Wednesday announced the take over and closure of its merger with Ranbaxy Laboratories.

Simply Breaking Up Sitting Time Shows Demonstrable Health Benefits In Type 2 Diabetes

Even Interrupting Sitting Time Improves Health In Type 2 DM
People with Type 2 diabetes could trim down and improve their metabolic health by replacing long periods of sitting with periodic standing, taking the stairs or even just changing the television station manually, according to a new study, “The Potential Impact of Displacing Sedentary Time in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.”

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 goals that UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. Update: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the MDGs in 2016.

How to Contain An Ebola Disease Outbreak

EBOLA has been in the news for awhile now. As of April 14th the virus had infected 168 people in Guinea, West Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). At least 108 had died.

No More IMGs for Residency Training Programs in the USA After 2015 - JAMA

By 2015, the number of graduates from US medical schools is expected to surpass the number of positions in residency programs. Going with the trend of preference by US Residency Programs given to US Medical Graduates, it will become nearly impossible for IMGs to get into US GME Programs.

Marijuana Use May Cause Structural Brain Abnormalilities

Marijuana (aka cannabis, pot, etc) is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States and many other countries of the world. A new study shows that those who use it only for recreational purposes may develop significant structural abnormalities in the brain.

Ebola Disease Outbreak in West Africa Is By New Strain of Virus

An Ebola outbreak blamed for 135 deaths in West Africa in the past month was not imported from Central Africa but caused by a new strain of the disease, researchers reported in a recent study, thus raising the specter of further regional epidemics.

WHO Guideline on Hepatitis C treatment

The World Health Organization, WHO, had last week on the 9th of April, 2014; issued its first-ever guidance for the treatment of hepatitis C, a chronic infection that affects an estimated 130 million to 150 million people and results in 350 000 to 500 000 deaths a year.

Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea and Liberia (An Update)

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea reported 157 probable and suspect cases of Ebola virus infection, including 101 deaths on April 10, 2014. Of these suspect cases, 66 have been laboratory confirmed positive cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF).

Ebola outbreak in West Africa among 'most challenging' - WHO

West Africa's Ebola outbreak is among the "most challenging" ever to strike since the disease emerged four decades ago, the WHO said, as the suspected death toll from the virus hit 111.

Scientists Improve Human Self-control through Electrical Brain Stimulation

If you have ever said or done the wrong thing at the wrong time, you should read this. Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the University of California, San Diego, have successfully demonstrated a technique to enhance a form of self-control through a novel form of brain stimulation.

Q&A: Risk Factors for Nocardiosis Infection

Nocardia was first identified by Nocard in 1888 in bovine farcy. The first human disease was described by Eppinger in 1890. Nocardia is a gram-positive, branching, filamentous, weakly acid-fast bacterium. These organisms are not part of normal flora and are very rarely laboratory contaminants. Pathogenic Nocardia are members of the family Nocardiaceae, the aerobic Actinomycetes. Nocardia asteroides is the principal cause of nocardiosis in the United States (responsible for 80% of human infection). Nocardia is ubiquitous in the soil and decaying vegetables and is found worldwide.

Q&A: Guideline Management of Ring-Enhancing Lesions in Immunocompromised Host

The differentials for peripheral or ring enhancing cerebral lesions includes cerebral abscess, tuberculoma, neurocysticercosis, metastasis, glioblastoma, subacute infarct/haemorrhage/contusion, demyelination (incomplete ring), tumefactive demyelinating lesion (incomplete ring), radiation necrosis, postoperative change, lymphoma - in an immunocompromised patient, leukaemia, thrombosed aneurysm, and necrotising leukoencephalopathy after methotrexate.

Q&A: Ring Enhancing Brain Lesions in Immunocompromised Individuals

The differentials for peripheral or ring enhancing cerebral lesions includes cerebral abscess, tuberculoma, neurocysticercosis, metastasis, glioblastoma, subacute infarct/haemorrhage/contusion, demyelination (incomplete ring), tumefactive demyelinating lesion (incomplete ring), radiation necrosis, postoperative change, lymphoma - in an immunocompromised patient, leukaemia, thrombosed aneurysm, and necrotising leukoencephalopathy after methotrexate.