HMSA to offer online doctor visits to clients Nov 23, 2008
Or roseola, and as a first-time parent you don t know what that is, Stollar said. I can look back on a number of situations when I really could have used online care. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Pass it On: Children Can Inherit Herpes Via Parental DNA Sep 11, 2008
HHV-6 is the virus responsible for roseola a mild childhood infection resulting in high fevers and occasionally associated with a rash. In rare cases the infection is accompanied by seizures as well as respiratory and gastrointestinal complications. (Scientific American)
Cheap Herpes Drug May Help Control HIV Sep 11, 2008
Any herpes virus will do, including HHV6 and HHV7, viruses that cause a nearly universal childhood infection sometimes called roseola. Like HIV, herpes takes up permanent residence in the body and cannot be eliminated. (Newsmax)
Virus weaves itself into the DNA transferred from parents to babies Sep 3, 2008
HHV-6 causes roseola, an infection that is nearly universal by 3 years of age. The typical roseola syndrome produces several days and up to a week of a high fever and may have variable other symptoms including mild respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms ... With roseola, just as the fever breaks, the child may briefly develop a rash. (EurekAlert!)
Common Aquatic Animals Show Extreme Resistance To Radiation Mar 28, 2008
Meselson and Gladyshev found that the bdelloid rotifers Adineta vaga and Philodina roseola remained reproductively viable after doses of radiation roughly five times greater than other classes of rotifers and other animals could endure. Such radiation resistance appears not to be the result of any special protection of DNA itself against breakage, the researchers say, but instead reflects bdelloid rotifers' extraordinary ability to protect their DNA-repairing machinery from radiation damage. (Science Daily)
U.S. Health Officials Back Off Preference for New MMRV Vaccine Mar 15, 2008
Febrile seizures are convulsions brought on by fever, usually from common childhood illnesses such as middle ear infections, viral upper respiratory tract infections and roseola. Although the seizures are distressing, children generally recover, according to the CDC.. (MEDLINEplus)
Staph infections Nov 27, 2007
His diagnosis progressed from roseola to chicken pox. Then he was admitted to a hospital with staph. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Childhood threat -- Kawasaki disease strikes mostly those under 5; cause is unknown Jun 10, 2007
The next day, her pediatrician diagnosed her with roseola, and recommended Motrin and Tylenol to reduce the fever. "Later that day, I knew it wasn't the flu," said Marquardt's mother, Julie. (North County Times)
WHO Revives Efforts To Eliminate Forgotten Disease: Yaws Jan 31, 2007
A neglected disease with a nearly forgotten name is making a comeback following a global control programme that almost eradicated it more than 40 years ago. Yaws, a disease which eats away at the skin, cartilage and bones of its victims (mostly children), is re-emerging in poor, rural and marginalized populations of Africa, Asia and South America. (Science Daily)
Measles Deaths Fall By 60 Percent Globally Jan 30, 2007
-- Rubella (also known as epidemic roseola, German measles, liberty measles or three-day measles) is a disease caused by the Rubella virus. It is often mild and an attack can pass unnoticed. (Science Daily)
