INFECTION

The deadly listeria outbreak stemming from cantaloupe melon continues to spread, killing one more elderly woman this weekend and bringing the death toll up to 17.

Autopsy results show that Jeff Conaway, the star of Taxi and Grease who struggled with addiction before his death in May, died from multiple causes including a major internal infection.

“Grease” and “Taxi” fame actor Jeff Conway’s death on May 27 last was due to multiple reasons, says his autopsy report released by the Los Angeles Country Coroner.

After the cantaloupe-associated listeriosis outbreak linked to a Colorado farm that has left 15 people dead and 84 sick across 19 states, it is romaine lettuce now threatening to spread the infection in North America.

A coroner's report released Friday said Taxi and Grease star Jeff Conaway's death May 27 was caused due to major internal infection. The New York-bred actor was 60.

Fifteen people are now confirmed dead and another 84 sickened in the recent listeriosis outbreak in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

A vaccine called MVA-B that can be the most effective weapon so far against the deadly virus HIV has been reported by Spanish medical researchers.

Spanish medical researchers say they have developed an HIV vaccine prototype that is the most potent weapon against the deadly virus yet.

The latest listeria outbreak in cantaloupe melon is the deadliest of its kind to have hit the United States in the past decade. 16 lives have been lost and more cases are being reported by the day, but what are the causes and what symptoms should we be looking out for?

Listeria-based illnesses that first spread in early September linked to tainted cantaloupes are already being called the deadliest outbreak in over ten years will likely rise higher in the next month, health officials said on Wednesday.

As of Sept. 27, 72 people from 18 states have been infected with a rare illness called listeriosis stemming from Listeria monocytogenes bacteria linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Typhoon Nesat, known as Typhoon Pedring to locals when it hit the Philippines earlier in the week, has reached China. Markets and schools were shut in Hong Kong and the storm is moving across the coast to the Hainan Province.

The deadliest foodborne outbreak in the U.S. in a decade has killed 13 people, infected 72 and is spreading through the country, with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention saying that cases have been reported from 18 states.

Scientists have given a new meaning to the X chromosome factor makes the female of the species more robust than their male counterparts. The new study says that women are also less likely to develop cancer.

As officials scramble to stop a growing listeria outbreak from contaminated cantaloupes, a supermarket chain has also found the bacteria in spinach dip.

The UK-based National Honor Society (NHS) opened the first-ever clinic targeted to helping users of so-called 'club-drugs,' such as ecstasy, which has grown higher in recent years, in London.

Typhoon Nesat's path drove it off of the Philippines and into the South China Sea on Wednesday, but many parts of the country are still unsafe.

The death toll caused by Listeria increased to 16, reports CBS News.

The outbreak of listeria linked to cantaloupes has resulted in the death of 13 people in the U.S. according to an announcement from health officials.

Computational scientists have forecasted the presence of numerous human proteins that are required by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to replicate itself. These, constitute a powerful resource for experimentalists who desire to discover new targets for human proteins that can control the spread of HIV, noted study authors.

Doubts over chronic fatigue syndrome and links to the XMRV virus, thought to be responsible for the condition, have been raised by a new research study.