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Anchor lead: There are strategies to employ to avoid enterovirus infection, Elizabeth Tracey reports Two toddlers have died so far as enterovirus 68 sweeps the US. Even as concerns about Ebola virus escalate domestically, parents especially are concerned about enterovirus …
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Anchor lead: Children around the US are becoming infected with an enterovirus, Elizabeth Tracey reports While the world’s attention is focused on Ebola virus, another viral illness, enterovirus 68, has spread across the US, killing two young children so far, …
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Anchor lead: Why haven’t there been any new antibiotics in recent years? Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibiotic resistance is being tackled head on by the federal government with a new, comprehensive plan designed to address many aspects of the problem, from …
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Anchor lead: The federal government is now behind battling antibiotic resistant infections, Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibiotic resistant organisms are big business, costing taxpayers millions in healthcare costs and accounting for many deaths annually. Now the federal government has stepped in …
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This week’s topics include the effect of education on prenatal testing, Ebola estimates, varicose vein therapy, and PET scanning to diagnose lung cancer. Program notes: 0:40 Ebola update 1:40 Numbers of cases doubling every 20-30 days 2:40 Body prepared by …
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Anchor lead: Will the rising tide of diabetes worldwide sweep away gains made in tuberculosis control? Elizabeth Tracey reports Multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis are already worldwide concerns. Enter now the worldwide epidemic of diabetes, which a recent …
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Anchor lead:Diabetes complicates tuberculosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Diabetes and tuberculosis, two worldwide health problems of epidemic proportion, work in synchrony to make things even worse. That’s according to a recent Lancet series. Jonathan Golub, a tuberculosis and diabetes expert at …
