E-mails: TB patient's family little help
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Health officials trying to stop a globetrotting honeymooner with a dangerous form of tuberculosis got little assistance from his lawyer father and his future father-in-law, a TB expert who not only balked at stopping the Greek wedding but went to the ceremony himself, according to e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.
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Blog: A database shoots out an email solicitation using the name of a friend in the hospital
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Eight family members in rural Indonesia fall ill, and medical investigators are racing to figure out why
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TWELVE Tasmanians will receive letters telling them they may have been exposed to a disease for which there is no known cure. The 12 have all had brain or spinal surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the past 18 months.
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The family of a lawyer with a rare strain of tuberculosis released part of a tape recording Wednesday in which a health official is heard saying the man was not contagious and didn't need to be isolated.
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If you've been around the net for a while you've been subscribed to a few thousand mailing lists.  I'm on a few big mailing lists now that host more than a few thousand users.  Sooner or later some guy on the list will go on vacation and instead of just letting email sit in their inbox he's nice enough to respond to all his email - with a form letter!  Usually in the shape of:  "I'm on vacation.  I'll be back in January."  Of course they're stupid enough to apply this to *every* folder in their inbox and so everytime someone posts or replies to the list this message is sent out to one of every three thousand posters.  We don't care if you're on vacation.  We don't care when you get back and  ...
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A drug used to treat schizophrenia was mailed to some consumers who had ordered other medications via the Internet, and several users had to seek emergency treatment because they could not breathe, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
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U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.
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Having easy access to a doctor's e-mail address appears to increase patient communication.
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A US TB patient who triggered a health scare by boarding transatlantic flights says sorry to fellow passengers.
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E-mail archiving software helped recover e-mails from health care workers tracking TB patient Andrew Speaker.
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The man who took commercial flights to and from Europe last month while infected with untreated extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis was identified yesterday as an Atlanta lawyer whose father-in-law is a tuberculosis researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Medical officials are urging families to talk not just turkey this Thanksgiving but also medical history -- generations of it -- to help
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MILWAUKEE _ When Janet Brabham wants to contact her doctor, she goes to her computer. Instead of making her way through a battery of voicemail prompts, receptionists and nurses, she sends off the medical version of e-mail. "For me, it's a great convenience," Brabham said.
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Patients currently don't have any way to keep their personal information from being shared with third parties.
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A tuberculosis patient who turned fugitive to continue with wedding and honeymoon plans despite warnings not to travel apologized to the fellow airline passengers he may have endangered.
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The U.S. tuberculosis patient who set off international alarms after fleeing across borders does not have the most dangerous form of TB but instead a strain that is easier to treat, his doctors said on Tuesday.