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Mobile phones and tiny sensors are making it easier to quickly flag health trends
Medical imaging offers new ways to examine the deceased
Hospitals bring janitors to the front lines of infection control
So much changed in a 22-year span since the conference was last held in the U.S. that its return effectively marks a new phase in the epidemic in terms of treatment, prevention, funding and death rates
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Most people think of foodborne illness as an unpleasant few days of fever and diarrhea, but for some there may be lifelong consequences
Researchers are baffled by the worldwide increase in type 1 diabetes, the less common form of the disease
A potentially beneficial but unusual treatment for serious intestinal ailments may fall victim to regulatory difficulties
A new pattern of antibiotic resistance that is spreading around the globe may soon leave us defenseless against a frighteningly wide range of dangerous bacterial infections
If the newly arrived European strain leads to disease in humans, it would further complicate the struggle against antibiotic-resistant MRSA
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