Neuroscience
From The New York Times:
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- Missing Meningitis In A Flaky/dodgy Swine Flu System: Another Case
Yet another case from the UK: Woman dies of meningitis after swine flu diagnosis • Woman prescribed Tamiflu and paracetamol dies in hospital • Son urges doctors to heed symptoms of other illnesses Karen McVeigh guardian.co.uk Wednesday 12 August 2009...
- Missing Possible Meningitis In A Flaky/dodgy Swine Flu System
From The Guardian: Girl, two, dies after swine flu misdiagnosis Child with possible meningitis was 'failed by system' say parents Jo Adetunji guardian.co.uk Saturday 8 August 2009 01.08 BST [snippet] The parents of a two-year-old girl thought...
- In The Weeklies
Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies: New England Journal of Medicine 28 October 2004 This week’s issue includes several papers of interest, two on the topic on bacterial meningitis and the...
- In The Weeklies
Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies: Journal of the American Medical Association 20 October 2004 This week’s JAMA has a number of contributions on the subject of the diagnosis and treatment...
- Meningitis And Prevnar
CDC Lifts Limits on Meningitis Vaccine By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (copyright) 16 September 2004 Filed at 1:20 p.m. ET ATLANTA (AP) -- Replenished supplies of a childhood meningitis vaccine has prompted health officials Thursday to lift a previous recommendation...
Neuroscience
Meningitis
From The New York Times:
City Tackles Meningitis in Brooklyn
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
The New York Times
29 June 2006
City health officials yesterday announced a novel assault on a large meningitis outbreak in Brooklyn, seeking to vaccinate thousands of drug users and others in and around Bedford-Stuyvesant against the bacterium that has sickened 23 people and killed eight of them.
That group of cases, over the past seven months, "is one of the largest outbreaks of meningitis described in the U.S. literature in the last couple of decades," said Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden. And the department's response, a mass vaccination for meningococcal meningitis, made possible by a new, more effective vaccine, appears to be the first in the city's history, he said.
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
- Missing Meningitis In A Flaky/dodgy Swine Flu System: Another Case
Yet another case from the UK: Woman dies of meningitis after swine flu diagnosis • Woman prescribed Tamiflu and paracetamol dies in hospital • Son urges doctors to heed symptoms of other illnesses Karen McVeigh guardian.co.uk Wednesday 12 August 2009...
- Missing Possible Meningitis In A Flaky/dodgy Swine Flu System
From The Guardian: Girl, two, dies after swine flu misdiagnosis Child with possible meningitis was 'failed by system' say parents Jo Adetunji guardian.co.uk Saturday 8 August 2009 01.08 BST [snippet] The parents of a two-year-old girl thought...
- In The Weeklies
Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies: New England Journal of Medicine 28 October 2004 This week’s issue includes several papers of interest, two on the topic on bacterial meningitis and the...
- In The Weeklies
Here are some relevant highlights from this week’s major scientific and medical weeklies: Journal of the American Medical Association 20 October 2004 This week’s JAMA has a number of contributions on the subject of the diagnosis and treatment...
- Meningitis And Prevnar
CDC Lifts Limits on Meningitis Vaccine By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (copyright) 16 September 2004 Filed at 1:20 p.m. ET ATLANTA (AP) -- Replenished supplies of a childhood meningitis vaccine has prompted health officials Thursday to lift a previous recommendation...