Diseases Wreak Havoc in Cassava Fields in Africa
http://www.voanews.com/content/diseases-wreak-havoc-in-cassava-fields-in-africa/1748455.html
NAIROBI, KENYA ? In Africa, demand for the cassava plant has grown significantly over the years. The continent produces 60 percent of the crop in the world. But the crop is drastically declining in East and Central Africa due to diseases that reduce ...
Scammers offering phoney stem cell therapies to 'treat' incurable diseases
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/09/11/scammers-offering-phoney-stem-cell-therapies-to-treat-incurable-diseases/
Stem cell therapies have proven to be extremely valuable options for medical treatment, with the potential to treat everything from cancer and diabetes to Parkinson's disease and cardiac illness. But now, scammers are capitalizing on these scientific ...
Microbe Transplants Treat Some Diseases That Drugs Can't Fix
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/10/216553408/microbe-transplants-treat-some-diseases-that-drugs-cant-fix
Billie Iverson may be getting up there, but for an 86-year-old, she's still plenty active. "I take trips, and I go do my own shopping, and I take myself to the doctor," Iverson says. "I do everything. I don't let anything stop me." But one day, she got ...
Roche executive says ultra-rare diseases outside core
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/11/us-roche-idUSBRE98A0QU20130911
LONDON (Reuters) - Treating ultra-rare diseases is a distinct business from Roche's current area of expertise, the Swiss group's head of pharmaceuticals said, in comments that may cast doubt on its interest in Alexion Pharmaceuticals. "Our business is ...
NIH scientists pursue new therapies to improve rare disease drug development
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2013/ncats-12.htm
Four new pre-clinical drug development projects at the National Institutes of Health will target a form of blindness and diseases characterized by cardiac problems. The projects were selected for their potential to treat specific rare diseases and to ...
Natural defences against disease
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-natural-defences-disease.html
Scientific studies show that dietary intake of flavonoids and related phenolics can reduce the incidence of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease - Europe's leading cause of death - and certain types of cancer, strokes, allergies, hepatic ...
Screenings ensure birth of healthy children
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/news/broward-county-news/fl-jjbs-screening-0912-20130912,0,940623.story
Rabbi Efrem Reis of Temple Beth Israel in Sunrise knows the importance of screening for the 19 recognized preventable Jewish genetic diseases both as a spiritual leader and as an expectant father. Reis considers the process so important he won't marry ...
Mystery Disease Killing Ohio Dogs
http://www.livescience.com/39537-disease-killing-ohio-dogs-circovirus.html
Veterinarians, health officials and dog owners are alarmed by the mysterious recent deaths of four dogs in Ohio. Some experts suspect the dogs may have died a few days after exposure to a virus that's normally found in pigs. Three dogs in the ...
