A Multi-Faceted Approach Is Needed to Fight Infectious Diseases
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-h-carmona-md/a-multifaceted-approach-i_b_4499182.html
A study by the Washington-based Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has found that most U.S. states are underperforming when it comes to treating infectious diseases. According to the report, just 16 states and the ...
Antioxidant drug knocks down multiple sclerosis-like disease in mice
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-antioxidant-drug-multiple-sclerosis-like-disease.html
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that an antioxidant designed more than a dozen years ago to fight damage within human cells significantly helps symptoms in mice that have a multiple sclerosis-like disease.
Linking Genes to Diseases by Sifting Through Electronic Medical Records
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/science/linking-genes-to-diseases-by-sifting-through-electronic-medical-records.html
The days of scrawled doctor's notes are slowly coming to a close. In the United States, 93 percent of hospitals are now using at least some electronic medical records and 2.2 percent have given up paper records completely, according to the consulting ...
Diseases on the move because of climate change
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/04/climate-change-disease/2623863/
SACRAMENTO ? Software engineer Andres Chavez is used to doing things quickly, efficiently and correctly. So he knew something was seriously wrong when, on a business trip in 2009, he was so confused he could barely sign a stack of paperwork.
Screening Newborns For Disease Can Leave Families In Limbo
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/18/255226663/screening-newborns-for-disease-can-leave-families-in-limbo
But in recent years, patient advocacy groups have been pushing states to adopt mandatory newborn screening for more and more diseases, including ones that have no easy diagnosis or treatment. One of those is Krabbe disease, a rare and devastating ...
The most infectious of all infectious diseases
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/health/frieden-measles/
(CNN) -- My first investigation as a new Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer with the Centers for Disease Control was of a large outbreak of measles, mostly among Hispanic children, many under a year old, and many who became infected when they ...
The courageous battle against diseases
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865592942/The-courageous-battle-against-diseases.html
I would add "courageous are we" in the conflict of our own diseases, demons and disorders. Joseph Cramer, M.D, is a board-certified pediatrician, fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, practicing physician for 30 years, a hospitalist at Primary ...
How the bugs inside us can help cure diseases
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/how-the-bugs-inside-us-can-help-cure-diseases/Content?oid=2654532
These include osteoarthritis, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's, many cancers, autoimmune diseases and others. The infectious agents that may be causing these diseases have not yet been identified, but the patterns are suggestive. Why do some types ...
