And while bacterial meningitis can be life-threatening, "early treatment improves outcomes," says Nagata. "The best treatments start with a prompt diagnosis of what is causing the disease," echoes ...

Meningococcic meningitis is on the upswing again. So far this year nearly 3,000 cases have appeared in the U.S., compared to 2,072 in 1941, 1,631 in 1940. Last week Colonel William B. Borden and ...

The spread of meningococcic meningitis (TIME, Nov. 30) continued last week. Worst spots: San Francisco, 37 cases and five deaths since Jan. 1; New York City, 237 cases, 41 deaths—over half as ...

Parasitic meningitis can be caused by a tapeworm infection in the brain or by cerebral malaria. Rarely, an amoeba that lives in certain bodies of freshwater can enter the nose and travel to the brain.

The meningitis Kimberly’s doctors diagnosed her with, ... Antibiotics can fight the bacteria, but the infection has to be caught extremely early for that medicine to work.

DARLINGTON REPORTS ON EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; First Lecture of a Series at the Academy of Medicine. DISEASE IS COMMUNICABLE The Health Commissioner Also Says That the Increase in Pneumonia is Only ...

Health Medicine Vaccines Meningitis shot that fights 5 different strains shows promise in latest trial. The vaccine could be a useful tool in countering meningitis in children and young adults.

Infections with many different types of bacteria including Streptococcus pneumonia, Listeria monocytogens, and Neisseria mengitidis can cause bacterial meningitis. It's estimated that every year over ...

MENINGITIS due to the Lancefield Group B beta-hemolytic streptococcus has rarely been reported.Case ReportR.L., a 56-year-old obese diabetic woman with chronic pyelonephritis, had an intense headac ...

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in ...

All articles in this series will be published in book form: the current volume is Medical Progress: Annual, 1940 (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas Company, 1941. $4.00). From the Thorndike ...