Infectious Diseases December 2009 Archive

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger If you have diabetes, you have probably been advised by your physician to get vaccinated for both H1N1 (Swine flu) and the ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger A. The good news is that now you probably can. There were a couple of reasons that people age 65 and older were ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger Usually the word "recall" means that something has injured or sickened many people, prompting manufacturers to get it all off the shelves. Fortunately, ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger Until very recently, there was no way to know right away if a person had H1N1 (swine flu) or the seasonal flu. ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger With all of the noise and attention on H1N1 (swine flu), our old friend the seasonal flu has kind of been lost ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger Autopsies performed on people who died from H1N1 and its complications in New York City show that the virus damages the entire ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger It seems like as the holiday excitement swirls around, so do the lines, the inconveniences and the short tempers, as everyone is ... Read More

By Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger I have always been amazed at the "magical thinking" or "fuzzy logic" that people have (and feel compelled to talk about) around ... Read More