Influenza: What is the H and what is the N?
H1N1, H7N9, H5N1--we hear this "alphanumeric" description of various influenza, or flu viruses all the time. In this short clip from an older interview, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Col...
16 Juli 20173min
Hotez measles prediction: 'Something awful is happening in Texas'
The Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Dr Peter Hotez is concerned about measles in his state of Texas, so much that he is raising the alarm by predicting a...
15 Juli 201710min
Breast cancer Q & A with Dr J. Leonard Lichtenfeld
According to an American Cancer Society annual report, in 2017 there will be an estimated 1.7 million new cancer cases diagnosed and more than 600,000 cancer deaths in the US. Of this total, a quarter...
14 Juli 201721min
Vaccines: How they work and some common misconceptions
There is likely no bigger accomplishment in medicine and public health that has saved so many lives and prevented so much misery over the decades as the introduction of vaccines. In the U.S. alone, be...
12 Juli 201714min
July is International Group B Strep Awareness Month
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), group B strep is the leading cause of sepsis and meningitis in a newborn's first week of life. July is International Group B strep aw...
10 Juli 201725min
Legionnaires' disease and Legionella, Part Two
Scientist and engineer, Sarah Ferrari, who is a member of the Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires' Disease, a coalition of subject matter experts and stakeholders formed to promote best practices on Legi...
10 Juli 201716min
Legionnaires' disease and Legionella, Part One
Legionnaires' disease is caused by the bacterium, Legionella. The bacterium was named after an outbreak in 1976, when many people who went to a Philadelphia convention of the American Legion got sick ...
9 Juli 201718min
Lyme disease: Borrelia biofilm in the body demonstrated
An article published last year in the European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology, an international, peer-reviewed online journal, was the first to demonstrate the presence of Borrelia biofilm in ...
8 Juli 20177min
