Personal Health

How to Wash Your Hands and Prevent Illness

What’s the big deal? Is there a right way to wash your hands? There actually is a right way to wash your hands, which is the best method to lower germs from being spread from person to person. You can use any kind of soap you like. Antibacterial soap is good but regular soap is […]

Personal Health

Norovirus

Norovirus is a very contagious virus and the most common cause of the stomach flu and food poisoning in the United States. Anyone, young or old can get the Norovirus one or more times in their life. It’s especially dangerous to young children and older adults. The good news is the Norovirus can be prevented […]

Health Problems

Team isolates antibodies that neutralize GI bug norovirus

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have isolated the first human monoclonal antibodies that can neutralize norovirus, the leading cause of acute gastrointestinal illness in the world. These antibodies, described this week in the journal Gastroenterology, “have high potential” for improving diagnosis and treatment of norovirus illness as well as furthering efforts to develop the […]