CONTENTS
Canadian News
- Special Section: ‘Superbug’ now in Canada
International News
- Special Section: AIDS at 30
CANADIAN NEWS
Canadian vaccine offers hope for global scourge of E. coli
The Globe and Mail Jun 1, 2011
As a deadly outbreak of a rare form of E. coli ravages Europe, the latest in a string of similar health scares over the years, scientists are in a race to come up with ways to eliminate the often deadly bacteria from the food system. (Related: Outbreak makes hundreds more ill)
The Globe and Mail Jun 1, 2011
As a deadly outbreak of a rare form of E. coli ravages Europe, the latest in a string of similar health scares over the years, scientists are in a race to come up with ways to eliminate the often deadly bacteria from the food system. (Related: Outbreak makes hundreds more ill)
UAlberta News May 31, 2011
he Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research is the culmination of a decade-long partnership between the U of A and the Métis Nation of Alberta, and will co-ordinate and sustain academic research activity with and for Métis communities. Based in the U of A’s Faculty of Native Studies and jointly funded by the Métis Nation of Alberta and the U of A, the centre’s wide-ranging areas of research will explore Métis rights, history, land use, resources and contemporary issues such as education and health.
Strang: Patients at risk of flu; Health workers skipping vaccine
The Chronicle-Herald (Nova Scotia) May 31, 2011
Patients are being put at risk because many health-care workers don't get flu shots, the province's top public health official says.
The Chronicle-Herald (Nova Scotia) May 31, 2011
Patients are being put at risk because many health-care workers don't get flu shots, the province's top public health official says.
American Academy of Pediatrics (News Release) May 30, 2011
ECC, also known as early childhood tooth decay, is the most common paediatric infectious disease. The condition is worsened by dietary habits and oral hygiene. The effects of ECC go beyond the tooth and have a significant influence on overall child health and well-being.
Ottawa Citizen / PostMedia May 28, 2011
After four volunteers were murdered by the Taliban for participating in a $60-million Canadian-funded project to eradicate polio in Afghanistan, Rahmattulah Bashardost continued to help distribute vaccine to more than 350,000 Kandahari children because, he said, it was the right thing to do.
The Tyee May 27, 2011
It's not just about drug addicts. The court decision could have a major effect on everyone's health rights.
Xtra May 27, 2011
Rather than condemning barebacking, the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) is offering harm-reduction information in its condom kits.
Calgary Herald (Editorial) May 27, 2011
The provincial government’s new $14-million awareness campaign to combat Alberta’s high rate of sexually transmitted infections features effective and powerful ads. Unfortunately, it took the government five years to act after it was first told about the problem.
BC Local News May 27, 2011
The horrific pain and debilitating conditions of Lyme disease left one Penticton woman praying for death with each day she had to endure.
In fact, her condition became so bad at one point Sandra (who asked her full name not be used) seriously considered taking her own life.
Toronto Star May 28, 2011
Six years after the World Health Organization and India declared victory over leprosy, announcing it was no longer a pubic health threat here, doctors say it's still impossible to say exactly how many people suffer from it. Much like HIV, the condition carries a longstanding social stigma and many sufferers ignore the tell-tale symptom of numbness that typically leads to more advanced leprosy, says Dr. Alokananda Ghosh.
‘SUPERBUG’ NOW IN CANADA
Hamilton Spectator May 31, 2011
It’s a sliver of DNA that turns ordinary bacteria into superbugs and could become a new scourge in Ontario hospitals, one of Toronto’s top infectious disease experts says.
NDM-1 superbug acquired in Canada: study
The Canadian Press May 30, 2011
The Canadian Press May 30, 2011
Canadian researchers have identified what appears to be the first domestically acquired case of an NDM-1 superbug.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
BBC June 1, 2011
London's HIV prevention groups have said they are "concerned" and "outraged" at a 20% funding cut.
AIDSMap June 1, 2011
Associated Press Jun 1, 2011
The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednesday.
CTV.ca May 31, 2011
Improved prevention and treatment efforts are needed to eliminate gaps in care for women with HIV, who make up about a quarter of all new HIV infections in Ontario, researchers say.
RTTNews May 30, 2011
Sanofi-Aventis and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, or DNDi, disclosed a three-year research collaboration deal for the research of new treatments for nine neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, listed by the WHO for which new, adapted, and efficient tools are urgently needed to treat patients in endemic countries.
Kaiser June 1, 2011
Google has launched Dengue Trends, a tool that aims to detect dengue fever outbreaks around the world using the same methodology behind Google Flu Trends.
CTV May 30, 2011
A study in 2009 that linked a mouse virus called XMRV to chronic fatigue syndrome was flawed, and its findings were likely based on contaminated lab samples, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.
Reuters May 30, 2011
International health alliance GAVI is seeking $3.7 billion from a June 13 pledging conference in London to help deliver vaccines to nearly a quarter of a billion children across the world by 2015.
UNICEF Press Centre 27 May 2011
UNICEF is improving transparency around vaccine supply by making vaccine prices available on its website. As the largest buyer of children’s vaccines, this move is in line with UNICEF’s commitment to ensure that vaccine supply is sustainable and affordable. UNICEF’s partners in immunisation welcome the positive development.
SciDev.net 26 May 2011
The Africa Innovation Outlook covers 19 countries across the continent and hopes to plug information gaps on the state of science.
The Africa Innovation Outlook covers 19 countries across the continent and hopes to plug information gaps on the state of science.
Clinical Infectious Diseases (2011) 52 (11):1363-1370
AIDS at 30
Conference: 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS
UNAIDS High-Level Meeting on AIDS, June 8 -10, 2011
Reuters Jun 1, 2011
For his doctors, Timothy Ray Brown was a shot in the dark. An HIV-positive American who was cured by a unique type of bone marrow transplant, the man known as "the Berlin patient" has become an icon of what scientists hope could be the next phase of the AIDS pandemic: its end. Related: Factbox: HIV/AIDS numbers from around the world
Science Speaks blog 31 May 2011
HIV specialist and leading infectious diseases physician John G. Bartlett, MD, doesn’t mince words when you ask him about what his AIDS patients faced in the early days of the epidemic. “They were the scourge of society – people didn’t like them because they were either gay or injection drug users, and there was a fear of contagion, that if you were in the same room with someone with AIDS you might get AIDS…
The New York Times, Lawrence Altman, May 30, 2011
In the decades since the disease emerged, the fight against it has shaped research, medical treatment and the public sphere, and highlighted the challenges that remain.
Wall Street Journal May 27, 2011
A major United Nations declaration on how best to fight the AIDS epidemic is the subject of frenzied jockeying and negotiations, people familiar with the process say, threatening to fracture any consensus on how best to combat the epidemic.
