Breaking the Code: UCSB Researchers Link Antibodies to Certain Diseases
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/breaking_the_code_ucsb_researchers_link_antibodies_to_certain_diseases_2013
Responses can vary, from minor reactions ? a cough or a sneeze ? to serious autoimmune diseases in which the body turns against its own tissues and its immune system responds by destroying them, such as in the case of Type 1 diabetes and celiac ...
NYSCF and NIH create cell models of rare and undiagnosed diseases
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/nysc-nan112013.php
NEW YORK, NY (November 21, 2013) ? In what is anticipated to be a major step forward for rare disease research, The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute is partnering with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed ...
New Vaccine Against Lung Diseases in Goats and Sheep
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131120103450.htm
Universiti Putra Malaysia has launched a new vaccine against lung or pneumonic diseases in goats and sheep that was developed and patented by its scientists. The soft launch of "STVac7," the first intranasal spray vaccine for goats and sheep, was ...
Rights Group Fears Waterborne Diseases Looming in Harare
http://www.voanews.com/content/rights-group-fears-waterborne-diseases-looming-in-harare/1793144.html
HARARE ? Human Rights Watch is expressing fears that Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, will be hit by another outbreak of waterborne diseases unless authorities improve access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation. A cholera epidemic in 2008 killed ...
Growth more stunted in lower-income youth with kidney disease
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-growth-stunted-lower-income-youth-kidney.html
Even with more prescriptions for growth hormone, children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease were less likely to grow to normal height ranges if they came from lower-income families, according to research funded by the National Institutes of ...
Novel Prion Disease With Peripheral Symptoms Identified
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/814753
Researchers from the United Kingdom have identified a new clinical syndrome caused by a novel genetic prion disease that causes severe diarrhea and peripheral neuropathies. They believe this discovery may also help improve understanding of the basis ...
Ravaged by Typhoon, Philippines Faces Threat of Serious Diseases
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/world/asia/tacloban-philippines-typhoon-haiyan.html
The aftermath of the Philippines typhoon is now threatening the country with outbreaks of debilitating and potentially fatal diseases, including some thought to have been nearly eradicated, because of a collapse in sanitation, shortages of fresh water ...
Brown's tweaking of law could open Pandora's Box of children's diseases
http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_24558964/browns-tweaking-law-could-open-pandoras-box-childrens
Imagine a California where polio becomes a threat to children's health as it was before the 1950s, when first the Salk vaccine and later the even more effective Sabin formula threw this dreaded and crippling disease into dormancy. Or a California where ...
