RECENT NEWS
Forbes  Apr 7  Comment 
Six recent deaths in the eastern China area around Shanghai in connection with H7N9 bird flu are raising concerns about its spread in the country.  The U.S. Centers for Disease Controls and Prevision is "closely"...
NPR  Mar 13  Comment 
Decades after its eradication, the "breakbone fever" has become endemic again in the Florida Keys. Scientists say that Floridians infected during a recent outbreak didn't catch the virus abroad but rather got a dengue strain that's unique to Key...
Benzinga  Feb 25  Comment 
Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: FURX) announced today that avarofloxacin (USAN adopted, INN approval pending), has been granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) and Fast Track designations from the U.S. Food and...
Benzinga  Nov 12  Comment 
PerkinElmer (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Shanghai Haoyuan Biotech Co., Ltd., a China-based infectious disease diagnostics...
Benzinga  Nov 5  Comment 
Durata Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DRTX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated dalbavancin as a Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP). The QIDP designation provides Durata priority...
MedPage Today  Oct 15  Comment 
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Primary care physicians and emergency clinics should take a more cautious attitude toward stomach upset in light of the ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak, an infectious disease specialist said here.
MedPage Today  Sep 25  Comment 
(MedPage Today) -- Physicians should pay attention to their "gut feeling" that something may be seriously wrong when assessing a child with an infectious disease -- even if the clinical appearance is reassuring -- an observational study suggested.
Forbes  Sep 20  Comment 
300 million dead worldwide from smallpox in the 20th century alone.  No wonder the United States Public Health Service is run by a General?fighting infectious disease was a life or death battle back then, and countries that failed to mobilize...
Benzinga  Sep 18  Comment 
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRPT), a developer of innovative RNA-based therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track status for the development of its lead infectious disease drug...




 
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