Amoebic encephalitis, caused by brain-eating amoebae in freshwater, is a rare but deadly infection with high fatality rates.

Ljungqvist, who has served as chairman of the IOC’s Medical Commission, though not during the time that the Barr tests were used, explained that since the Barr test has been abandoned and a new PCR ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as the number of amoebic meningoencephalitis cases continues to rise, an analysis of recent cases has found that individuals with comor ...

The Opposition UDF on Wednesday ridiculed health minister Veena George, saying she was "groping in the dark" and insisted ...

E. coli testing is rising on UK pig farms as producers act to tackle post-weaning diarrhoea following the zinc oxide ban.

The Opposition in Kerala staged a boycott of the Assembly session during an adjournment motion on amoebic meningoencephalitis ...

Heidi Berghäll, EQA Solutions Manager, R&D of Labquality, commented, “It is important that both pathology and molecular tests ...

AME is primarily caused by free-living amoeba residing in fresh and stagnant water and in the soil beneath water sources like wells, ponds and lakes. The amoeba enters the human body through the nose ...

An everyday hay fever spray may do more than tame sneezes. In a rigorously run German trial, adults who used azelastine nasal ...

Jones and her coauthors concluded such a tool had the potential to improve evidence-based testing in pediatric diarrhea and ...

Bacterial conatmination in medical fentanyl has killed at least 51 people in Argentina, highlighting pressures on generic ...